Red Roses for a Blue Lady

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

Mule train!! (Hyah, hyah)

Mule train!!

Clippety cloppin' o'er the mountain chain

Soon they're gonna reach the top, clippety clop, clippety clop

Clippety, clippety, clippety, clippety, clippety cloppin' along

There's some cotton thread and needles for the folks in way-out-yonder

A shovel for a miner who left his home to wander

Some rheumatism pills for the settlers in the hills

Get along, mule!! , get along

Mule train!! (Hyah, hyah)

Mule train!!

Clippety cloppin' through the wind and rain

They'll keep goin' till they drop, clippety clop, clippety clop

Clippety, clippety, clippety, clippety, clippety cloppin' along

There's a letter full of sadness trimmed with black around the border

A pair of boots for someone who had them made to order

A bible in the pack for the Reverend Mr. Black

Get along, mule! , get along

Get along, mule, get along!! (mule train)

(Hyah, hyah)

(Hyah, hyah)

FADE

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Music, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets