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Artist: Carmen Miranda
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Ipse-Ai-O (Ypsee-Ai-O)
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Ipse-Ai-O (Ypsee-Ai-O)
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I've been to Chicago, and I like Chicago
And I've been to New Orleans, and I like New Orleans
I've been to New Hampshire, and I like New Hampshire
I like North, East, South, West
But the place I like most is the best
But the place she likes best is the West!
I wanna go to a big empty space
Where the cows and the cantaloupes play
Wanna be a "cowboygal" , wanna sit in my "corral"
And yipsy-ay-o and ki-yay
She wanna yipsy-ay-o and ki-yay
She wants to horse with some good-looking chaps
Wants to "chew up the dust" like they say
Wanna put around some boots
And she'll loosen lots of juice
And yipsy-ay-o and ki-yay
She wanna yipsy-ay-o and ki-yay
When I'm hips-I-o in Cayenne
I'll put any others to shame
I don't know who she is or what I'm saying
But I have lots of fun just the same
To take a round where they don't have a fence
When she goes let her go there away
And my day will be full when I throw a little bull
And yipsy-ay-o
And yipsy-ay-o
And yipsy-ay-o and ki-yay
Aqui se diz que eu não falo bem o inglês, obá! Obá!
Meu português para eles "is the best"
Sempre que eu acho?
Um despacho debaixo do meu capacho
Se eu não me agacho eu acho que me esborracho
Hey Carmen!
What?
Come back to the West!
Oh, oh, give me my rusty 42
45!
And give me a cow that I can punch
I'll punch you!
And give me some bottles and some booze
Some "boze" ?
Then I bet that I reckon that I've stayed
She wants to be a "cowboygal"
Wants to sit on her "corral"
And yipsy-ay-o
And yipsy-ay-o
And yipsy-ay-o and ki-yay
Get along! Get along! Get along!
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