That's How The Yodel Was Born - Riders In The Sky

When you hear a cowboy yodeling a song of open range

Your heart leaps up to hear his stirring tale

But did you ever wonder, at the end of his refrain

Why his voice leaps in a mournful way?

Well, the story as it was told to me

Was handed down through history

Of a singing cowboy brave enough to try

To ride the meanest ol' cayuse

And bucked him off right at the chute

And left him spinning way up in the sky

The bronco jumped up and the cowboy came down

They met at the old saddlehorn

It made a deep impression;

you could say it changed his life

And that’s how the yodel was born

Show 'em, Too Slim!

Hang in there, Slim!

Go, woody!

Ride, ranger, ride!