DUM-DE-DE-DUM, DE-DE-DUM-DE-DE-DUM, DE-DAA-DAAAAA,
DUM-DE-DE-DUM, DE-DE-DUM-DE-DE-DUM, DE-DAA-DAA-DAA-DAA-DAAAA!

Well, I walk into the school,
Showing no cliques, or tropes, nor skills,
And it chills, and it thrills, like the horns of a ‘73 grill.
And I say goodbye to boys and girls in town,
Each student trying not to frown,
And their lives ain’t ever gonna be the same!

‘Cause I walk to class with force,
It’s the last day in this city,
And “Yee-haw!”’s my chant of choice,
Goodbye girls that were so pretty,
Then become a talk show host,
On that old Westwood One,

And the class says...
“End of class! Be a cowboy!”
Everybody says,
“End of class! Be a cowboy!”

Well I don't give a dang about nothing,
I’m singing and “Yee-haw!”-ing!
Makes Wylie Gustafson
Go leave town!
And I wouldn’t trade my yearbook,
Or my cowboy jeans for your school games played,
Or a road parade,
I’m the only John Wayne here at this school!

‘Cause I walk to class with force,
It’s the last day in this city,
And “Yee-haw!”’s my chant of choice,
Goodbye girls that were so pretty,
Then become a talk show host,
On that old Westwood One,

And the class says...
“End of class! Be a cowboy!”
Everybody says,
“End of class! Be a cowboy!”

Yes! And so to bed,
That’s what I said,
Unlike trite Fedora Fred,
The last school day was but a dud,
Not but one game or licked toad!
How the day passed by,
Cheesecake lines, having myself a Big and Rich time,
I was “Yee-haw!”-ing, just about as far as they’d let me go,
The school’s evaluation,
Of my cowboy reputation,
Was so simple; “Simple as the day is long!”
Now Red Eye Radio’s my job,
Wylie Gustafson, you can’t “Yee-haw!”
Now, sing me every Steve Miller Band song you can think of,

...And pack your stuff!

‘Cause I walk to class with force,
It’s the last day in this city,
And “Yee-haw!”’s my chant of choice,
Goodbye girls that were so pretty,
Then become a talk show host,
On that old Westwood One,

And the class says...
“End of class! Be a cowboy!”
Everybody says,
“End of class! Be a cowboy!”

What? What?
“End of class! Be a cowboy!”
Everybody says,
“End of class! Be a cowboy!”