When the Cowboy Sings
Oogshookmookie mushy doggy oogshookmookie ay I mean son don't go near the Eskimos
Please do what I say I was seventeen and my voice was changing
But the girls didn't thrill me none Cause I longed to go see an Eskimo
On the banks of the old Yukon One night I slept from my daddy's house
A little bit north of Nome And I knew that I could get back by morning
Cause the nights are six months long And there she was sitting on a chunk of ice
Eating a frozen fish And dipping her friskies in whale blubber And I said oogamooshka noshka
Which means your love in my heart is burning for you And she said shoogamooshka mooshka
Which means back up Ben you're melting the ice I went back home and I told my daddy about this maiden fair
And how I felt I would like to melt them icicles in her hair
Dad's trembling lips turned purple And his voice began to freeze It was then he told me I could river up noses
With pretty little oogshognees Now son when you were born The Eskimo and the white man
Well they was having a lot of wild parties together see And this Eskimo named Pie-Eye
That's right son this Pie-Eyed Eskimo Stole my little boy's maiden icicle out of you
So I stole you to get even I was going to make a fudge sickle out of you
But I loved you like you was my very own And I just treated you like the wonderful little cold blooded Eskimo that you are
But son you can never rub noses with oogshognee It's not because she's your sister
But son oogshognee has got the coldest nose in Alaska And that's why I've always said
Oogshugmuggy mushy doggy oogshugmuggy I mean son don't go near the Eskimo
Please do what I say