A Ticket To Tomahawk (On The Colorado
Trail) (Main version)
Written for: A Ticket To Tomahawk (1950)
Performer: Studio Chorus; Dan Dailey
Lyric: Mack Gordon
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1950
Original publisher: Twentieth Century Music Corporation, rights controlled by Robbins Music Corporation
Alternate version
Chorus:
Gonna git me a ticket to Tomahawk,
Tomahawk, Tomahawk;
Gonna git me a ticket to Tomahawk,
Down Colorado way.
Got a wind-up watch and a mustache cup,
And slickum for my hair;
Got a horse-shoe pin and a pearl-gray vest
That I won't dare to wear.
Got the best disputin' in Tomahawk,
Tomahawk, Tomahawk.
Got the best straight shootin' in Tomahawk,
So the dead men say!
Hear those red-skins "woo-woo-woo-woo!"
As we go rattlin' by;
Big Chief heap mad-woo-woo-woo-woo!
'Cause he no can ketchum little choo-choo.
Gonna go gallivantin' in Tomahawk,
Tomahawk, Tomahawk.
Gonna go gallivantin' in Tomahawk,
But I don't 'tend to stay.
I wanna plunk my guitar
At the Silver Dollar Bar,
And flirt with a pink-haired frail;
And then I'll follow my shadow singin',
"Yip-pee-i-ad-do" on the Colorado Trail,
Colorado Trail.
