| Mr Horace Greeley was no fool | 
| I’m sure that you agree with me that Greeley was no fool | 
| What he is getting at is that Mr Greeley was no fool | 
| Boy The wisdom of the man can be denied by none | 
| For he’s the one that said | 
| Before you go to Buffalo to Baltimore or Borneo | 
| To Eastern Pennsylvania or Japan | 
| Go west! | 
| Young man | 
| If you go to that land, sonny | 
| You will have a lot of money | 
| If you bring the money with you when you come | 
| To the lone prairie, yippi-yi, yippi-yi | 
| Yippi-yi-yi-yi! | 
| Yippi-yi, yippi-yi, yippi-yi | 
| Before you read a travel ad | 
| And scamper off to Trinidad | 
| Too often in New York and Yucatan | 
| Go west! | 
| Young man | 
| In the East they live on doughnuts | 
| In the West the natives grow up | 
| And I guarantee you go nuts if you come | 
| To the lone prairie, yippi-yay, yippi-yay | 
| Yippi-yay-yay-yay! | 
| Yippi-yi, yippi-yi, yippi-yi | 
| A cowboy’s gal is a real true pal | 
| She will stick to him right or wrong | 
| Right or wrong | 
| She don’t say nothing | 
| And she don’t do nothing | 
| And she don’t know nothing | 
| And she don’t want nothing but a horse | 
| And a cowboy, for she’s just keeps rolling along | 
| Go west! | 
| Young man | 
| Go where the airport’s tearing the chest, young man | 
| You can ride a bucking bronco or a pony | 
| You can cut a calf in half and make baloney | 
| Go west! | 
| Young man | 
| Go right up there and give 'em the very best you can | 
| Don’t go east, don’t go south, don’t go north, have a care | 
| Don’t go up, don’t go down, don’t go here, don’t go there | 
| If it’s true what they say about Dixie | 
| Go West! | 
| Young man | 
| Go out and till the soil there | 
| Dig for gold and you’ll find oil there | 
| Where the crow flies, where the snow flies, go, there’s no «no»! | 
| If you are fond of hunting there’s no place that can compare | 
| You may not bag a lion or a tiger or a bear | 
| But if you want a jack-ass there are plenty of them there | 
| Go West! | 
| Young Man | 
| The judges there are very fair, they always are of course! | 
| A cowboy and his Mrs went to court for a divorce | 
| The cowboy got the children and the Mrs got the horse | 
| All Go west! | 
| Young man | 
| Yi-hi! |