Wringle Wrangle

Wringle Wrangle

Git-up there yeah oh, oh

Oh wringle wrangle jinggy jong jangle

Mighty fine horse I’m in love of course

Cause I got me a pretty woman’s love

Oh wringle wrangle jinggy jong jangle

Spurs on my boots and I don’t give a hoot

Cause I got me a pretty woman’s love

With a dollars worth of beans, a new pair of jeans

Got a woman to cook and wash and things

Oh wringle wrangle jinggy jong jangle

If I die I ain’t a-gonna cry

Cause I got me a pretty woman’s love

Wringle wrangle, wringle wrangle

Yes I got me a pretty woman’s love

Found on the internet: "This tune was in my head for over 50 years (I'm 57 years old) All I remembered was the tune & the words "Wringle Wrangle". A year or so ago I discovered & heard the song for the first time in over 50 years & found out to my surprise it was recorded in 1956 by Fess Parker. God Bless Fess Parker, (Davy Crockett & Daniel Boone & the movie "Smoky") he was a role model to me & many others years ago. Thank you for posting this song!!!!"

The above comment was posted several years ago on U-Tube. Unlike this guy I remembered almost all the lyrics 50+ years later, better than any of the childhood songs that spring unbidden into my head. I always thought my remembered version slightly incorrect because it seemed redundant to say "I’m in love of course - Cause I got me a pretty woman’s love", but it turns out that I had it right all along. Go figure. Anyway Fess Parker sang this in "Westward Ho, The Wagons".

Many of the lyrics are a rather obvious reflection on Middle America's reactionary response to the changing roles of women brought about by World War II. The genie was out of the bottle but both men and women were unconvinced that this was a good thing and many yearned for a return to simpler times and traditional roles. If it seems odd to find such an overt appeal to this in a children's film, it was a ubiquitous theme running wild throughout the culture at that time.

The film was released in December of 1956, when I was in first grade. Earlier that year I had seen Fess Parker in "The Great Locomotive Chase". In February 1955 he was on television as Davy Crockett, spanning five episodes of Disney's Wonderful World of Color. And would be in "Old Yeller" in 1957. So in the mid fifties, he was simply the biggest guy in entertainment for baby boomers. Much to my father's amusement, in 1957 I nicknamed by mother "Old Yeller" - as the stress of dealing with two young boys had made yelling her defining personality characteristic.

Click Here to "Hear" Fess Sing Wringle Wrangle

"Wringle Wrangle" was written by Stan Jones who had quite an influence on baby boomers, all recognize his songs and some his face. Here is a nice photo of Stan from inside the front cover of the Dell comic book shown earlier on this page.

http://www.originalmmc.com/stanjones.html

"In 1955 actor Harry Carey Jr. was hired by Walt Disney for a TV series called The Adventures of Spin and Marty (1955). Carey had worked with Stan on both "Wagon Master" and "Rio Grande" and suggested to Disney that Stan be hired to write songs for the show, a suggestion Disney followed. Stan wrote all the songs for the first two seasons of the show (he also made an occasional appearance before the cameras), but for the third season many of the songs were written by others, although some of Stan's were used.

He later worked on the soundtracks for several Disney films, and was the co-writer for the theme song for the western series Cheyenne (1955). In 1956 he was hired to play Deputy Olson on the modern-day western series Sheriff of Cochise (1956) (later renamed "U.S. Marshal") and in addition wrote the theme song and even some episodes of the show. In 1959 he worked for director John Ford again, writing the songs for his western The Horse Soldiers (1959) and even playing, uncredited, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant."