Go West, Young Man chords by
The Andrews Sisters
The Andrews Sisters

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Key: D major
Verse 1
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Before you go to Buffalo,
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to Baltimore, or Borneo,
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to Eastern Pennsylvania or Sudan,
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Go West, young man.
If you go to that land, sonny,
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you will have a lot of money,
if you bring the money
with you when you come.
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To the Long Prairie,
yippee -yee, yippee -yee,
yippee -yee,
yippee -yee, yippee -yee, yippee -yee.
Before you read a travel ad
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or scamper off to Trinidad,
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to Albany, New York, or Yucatan.
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The West, young man.
In the East they live on donuts,
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in the West the natives grow nuts,
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and I'll guarantee you'll
go nuts if you come.
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To the lone prairie
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Yippie -yi, yippie -yi, yippie -yi, yi -yi,
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yippie -yi, yippie -yi, yippie -yi
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Go west, young man
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Go where the air puts head on your chest,
young man
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You can ride a buck and bronco or a pony
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You can cut a cap in
half and make baloney
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Go west, young man.
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Go right out there
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and give it the very best you can .
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Don't go north, don't go south,
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don't go east, have a care.
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Don't go up, don't go down,
don't go here, don't go there.
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If you are fond of hunting,
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there's no place that can compare.
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You may not bag a lion or a tiger or a bear,
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But if you want a jackass,
there are plenty of them there,
go west, young man
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In sunny California
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when the clouds are breaking loose
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And you complain about the rain,
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they give you this excuse
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It isn't raining rain,
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you know it's raining orange juice,
go west, young man
The judges there are very fair,
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they always are of course
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The cowboy and his missus
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went to court for a divorce
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The cowboy got the children
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and the missus got the horse.
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Go west!
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Young man, go out and till the soil there.
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Dig more gold
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and you'll find oil there.
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When the snow flies, as the crow flies,
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go westward home.
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If there's a cattle shortage,
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which can happen like is not.
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And they can't find a hunk of meat
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to chuck into the pot.
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They sit around and beef about the
beef they haven't got
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Go away, young man!
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