Reply #42: Song sung by Frankie Laine. #1 on Billboard for 6 weeks in 1949. [View All]

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Mule Train

-Artist: Frankie Laine as sung on "Mairzy Doats 44 Wacky Hits"
-MCA Records MSD2-35180/GMD 80041
-peak Billboard position # 1 for 6 weeks in 1949
-competing versions charted by Bing Crosby (#4), Tennessee Ernie Ford (#9),
-Vaughn Monroe (#10), and Gordon MacRae (#14)
-sung by Vaughn Monroe in the movie "Singing Guns" and by Gene Autry in "Mule Train"
-nominated for an Academy Award
-Words and Music by Johnny Lange, Hy Heath, and Fred Glickman


(Hyah, hyah)

Mule train!! (Hyah, hyah)
Mule train!!
Clippety cloppin' over hill and plain
Seems as how they never stop, clippety clop, clippety clop
Clippety, clippety, clippety, clippety, clippety cloppin' along

There's a plug o'chaw tobacky for a rancher in Corona
A ghee-tar for a cowboy 'way out in Arizona
A dress of calico for a pretty Navajo
Get along, mule! , get along