I’d like to be a cowboy, an’ ride a firey hoss
Way out into the big and boundless West;
I’d kill the bears an’ catamounts an’ wolves I come across,
An’ I’d pluck the bal’ head eagle from his nest!
With my pistol at my side,
I would roam the prarers wide,
An’ to scalp the savage Injun in his wigwam would I ride—
If I darst; but I darsen’t.
I’d like to go to Afriky an’ hunt the lions there,
An’ the biggest ollyfunts you ever saw!