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Mule Train
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-Artist: Frankie Laine as sung on "Mairzy Doats 44 Wacky Hits"
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-MCA Records MSD2-35180/GMD 80041
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-peak Billboard position # 1 for 6 weeks in 1949
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-competing versions charted by Bing Crosby (#4), Tennessee Ernie Ford (#9),
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-Vaughn Monroe (#10), and Gordon MacRae (#14)
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-sung by Vaughn Monroe in the movie "Singing Guns" and by Gene Autry in "Mule Train"
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-nominated for an Academy Award
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-Words and Music by Johnny Lange, Hy Heath, and Fred Glickman
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(Hyah, hyah)
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Mule train!! (Hyah, hyah)
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Mule train!!
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Clippety cloppin' over hill and plain
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Seems as how they never stop, clippety clop, clippety clop
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Clippety, clippety, clippety, clippety, clippety cloppin' along
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There's a plug o'chaw tobacky for a rancher in Corona
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A ghee-tar for a cowboy 'way out in Arizona
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A dress of calico for a pretty Navajo
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Get along, mule! , get along
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Mule train!! (Hyah, hyah)
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Mule train!!
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Clippety cloppin' o'er the mountain chain
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Soon they're gonna reach the top, clippety clop, clippety clop
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Clippety, clippety, clippety, clippety, clippety cloppin' along
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There's some cotton thread and needles for the folks in way-out-yonder
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A shovel for a miner who left his home to wander
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Some rheumatism pills for the settlers in the hills
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Get along, mule!! , get along
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Mule train!! (Hyah, hyah)
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Mule train!!
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Clippety cloppin' through the wind and rain
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They'll keep goin' till they drop, clippety clop, clippety clop
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Clippety, clippety, clippety, clippety, clippety cloppin' along
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There's a letter full of sadness trimmed with black around the border
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A pair of boots for someone who had them made to order
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A bible in the pack for the Reverend Mr. Black
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Get along, mule! , get along
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Get along, mule, get along!! (mule train)
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(Hyah, hyah)
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(Hyah, hyah)
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FADE
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Mule Train
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Frankie Laine |