Title:  I can’t get my foot in my boot

Composer:  Joe Raposo

Lead vocals:  Skip Hinnant

Backing vocals:  none

Scene:  Skip as a cowboy at a fence.

[SH]  I’m a rootin’-tootin’ cowboy.

I have roamed the wide prairie.

I can ride.  I can rope.  I’m the real McCoy.

And my horse is seventy-three.

I don’t give a holler.  I don’t give a hoot,

But I can’t get my foot in my boot.

No way.

I’m a jingle-jangle cowman.

I have wrestled a mountain lion.

I can sing.  I can snore.  I can ????? Cheyenne.

My horse is ninety-nine.

I don’t give a hoot.  I’m a tough old galoot,

But I can’t get my foot in my boot!

No way!

I’m bad bad buckaroo Billy.

I got the purtiest gal alive.

She can cook.  She can sew.  She’s a-waitin’ on me!

My horse is a hundred and five.

He’s been standing so long, he put down a root,

‘Cause I can’t get my foot in my boot.

Oh, shoot.

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