Before you go to Buffalo,
to Baltimore, or Borneo,
to Eastern Pennsylvania or Sudan,
Go West, young man.
If you go to that land, sonny,
you will have a lot of money,
if you bring the money
with you when you come.
To the Long Prairie,
yippee -yee, yippee -yee,
yippee -yee,
yippee -yee, yippee -yee, yippee -yee.
Before you read a travel ad
or scamper off to Trinidad,
to Albany, New York, or Yucatan.
The West, young man.
In the East they live on donuts,
in the West the natives grow nuts,
and I'll guarantee you'll
go nuts if you come.
To the lone prairie
Yippie -yi, yippie -yi, yippie -yi, yi -yi,
yippie -yi, yippie -yi, yippie -yi
Go west, young man
Go where the air puts head on your chest,
young man
You can ride a buck and bronco or a pony
You can cut a cap in
half and make baloney
Go west, young man.
Go right out there
and give it the very best you can .
Don't go north, don't go south,
don't go east, have a care.
Don't go up, don't go down,
don't go here, don't go there.
If you are fond of hunting,
there's no place that can compare.
You may not bag a lion or a tiger or a bear,
But if you want a jackass,
there are plenty of them there,
go west, young man
In sunny California
when the clouds are breaking loose
And you complain about the rain,
they give you this excuse
It isn't raining rain,
you know it's raining orange juice,
go west, young man
The judges there are very fair,
they always are of course
The cowboy and his missus
went to court for a divorce
The cowboy got the children
and the missus got the horse.
Go west!
Young man, go out and till the soil there.
Dig more gold
and you'll find oil there.
When the snow flies, as the crow flies,
go westward home.
If there's a cattle shortage,
which can happen like is not.
And they can't find a hunk of meat
to chuck into the pot.
They sit around and beef about the
beef they haven't got
Go away, young man!