A Cowboy From Brooklyn (Early edition)

Written for: Cowboy From Brooklyn (1938)
Performer: Studio Orchestra (as instrumental); Dick Powell (OUT-TAKE)
Lyric: Johnny Mercer
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1938
Original publisher: M. Witmark & Sons

Chorus:

When you were just a little shaver back in Brooklyn,
You always used to hate to see the movin' pictures,
Because the only ones you saw were full of cowboys,
A-ridin' and a-shootin' away.
And so, you swore that you would never ride a bronco,
That you would never even cross the Mississippi;
But just to prove you never know what's gonna happen,
You landed in Wyomin' one day.
And I'll tell you, pard,
You worked so hard,
And ev'rybody played so rough;
That they always had you waitin' on the table,
Sweepin' out the stable and stuff!
I don't know how they ever got you on a bronco,
I don't know why you think you want to be a cowboy,
'Cause you can always see them in the movin' pictures,
A-ridin' and a-shootin' away,
Okay!
But you belong in Brooklyn
Hangin' round the drug store,
Roundin' up the sodas all day.