moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) (12/10/85)
Thank you, everyone, who sent me bits and snippets of the songs. Thanks to
your input, I've discovered that there are *TWO* major sets of lyrics to go
with the Bonanza theme. Many thanks to Joel Shprentz and Owen Alexander for
their help...
The first one is from the original music written and copyrighted by Jay
Livingston and Ray Evans:
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We got a right to pick a little fight, Bonanza!
If anyone fights anyone of us
He's gota fight with me!
We're not a one to saddle up and run, Bonanza!
Anyone of us who starts a little fuss
knows he can count on me!
One for four, Four for one,
This we gaurantee!
We got a right to pick a little fight, Bonanza!
If anyone fights anyone of us
He's gota fight with me!
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The other (and more well-known version) is the one that Lorne Greene sang on
a 45 a while back, with considerably more lyrics:
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We chased lady luck 'til we finally struck bonanza
With a gun and a rope and a hatfull of hope we planted
our family tree
We got ahold of a potfull of gold, bonanza
With a horse and a saddle and a ring full of cattle,
how rich can a fella be?
On this land we put our brand, Cartright is the name
Fortune smiled the day we filed the Ponderosa claim
Here in the West we're livin' in the best bonanza
If anyone fights anyone of us, he's gotta fight with me
[Bonanza-aaa, Bonanza-aaa]
Hoss and Joe and Adam know every rock and pine
No one works, fights or eats like those boys of mine
Here we stand in the middle of a grand bonanza
With a gun and a rope and a hatfull of hope we planted
our family tree
We got ahold of a potfull of gold, bonanza
With a house full of friends, where the rainbow ends,
how rich can a fella be?
On this land we put our brand, Cartright is the name
Fortune smiled the day we filed the Ponderosa claim
Here in the West we're livin' in the best bonanza
The friendliest, fightenest, lovinest clan that ever
set foot in the promised land
And we're happier than them all
That's why we call it,
Bonanza... Bonanza... Bonanza... BONANZA.
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Again, thanks to everyone who contributed.
"Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a
forty-two-year-old woman, director Roman Polanski
told reporters, "The way I look at it, she's the
equivalent of three fourteen-year-olds."
-- David Letterman
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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