Yippee!
Ficus Bill was quite a cowboy
down in Texas
And a western superman to say the least
He was the roughest, toughest critter
Never known to be a quitter
Cause he never had no fear of man or beast
So yippee -aye -aye, yippee -aye -oh
For the toughest critter
west of the Alamo
Once he wrote the raging cyclone
out of nowhere
Then he straddled it and
settled down with ease
And while that cyclone
bucked and flitted
Hiccus rolled a -smoking lidded
And he tamed that ornery
wind down to a breeze
So if you're in California,
you're in Texas
Once there was a drought
that spread all over Texas
So to sunny California he did go,
and though the gag is kind of corny,
he brought rain from California,
that's the way we got the Gulf of Mexico.
So yippee -aye -aye, yippee -aye -oh,
for the toughest critter west of the Alamo.
Now once a band of rustlers
stole a herd of cattle,
but they didn't know the herd they
stole was Bill's.
And when he caught
them crooked Bill's,
Pecos knocked out all their fillings.
That's the reason why there's
gold in them there hills.
So yippee -aye -aye,
yippee -aye -oh,
for the toughest critter west of the Alamo.
Oh, oh, Faker's lost his way
while traveling on the desert
Water
It was ninety miles across the
burning sand
Water
He knew he'd never
reach the border
Water
If he didn't get some water
Water
So he got a stick and dug a real grand
By Leola
Oh, Leola
Oh, Leola
Oh, Leola
While a tribe of painted Indians
did a war dance
Pekka started shooting up their little gang
He gave them red skin
such a shake up
That they jumped out of their
make -up
That's the way the painted
desert got its name
So yippee -aye -aye -aye, yippee -aye -oh
Her the toughest critter
west of the Alamo
While reclining on a cloud
high over Texas
With his guns he made
the stars evaporate
Then Pecos saw them stars declining
So he left one brightly shining
As the emblem of the Lone Star,
Texas State
So yippee -aye -aye, yippee -aye -oh
As the emblem of the Lone Star,
Texas State!