Bronco Pal

(aka Old Bronco Pal)

(Bob Nolan)

Refrain:

We’ve traveled the winding trails,

We know the sun and the windy gales,

Old bronco pal.

I’ve followed your pounding feet

With all their rhythm my heart would beat,

Old bronco pal.

Yippee-ay, we’re off to a northern land.

Yippee-o, then back to the Rio Grande.

Someday, where an angel waits,

I’ll ride you up to the Pearly Gates,

Old bronco pal.

We’ve traveled the winding trails,

We know the sun and the windy gales,

Old bronco pal.

I’ve followed your pounding feet

With all their rhythm my heart would beat,

Old bronco pal.

Yippee-ay, we’re off to a northern land.

Yippee-o, then back to the Rio Grande.

Someday, where an angel waits,

I’ll ride you up to the Pearly Gates,

Old bronco pal.

We’ve always been pals together, you and I.

Old bronco, you’re just the same as the years go by—

Faithful buddies, you and me.

That is the way it will always be

Until we die.

We’ve traveled the winding trails,

We know the sun and the windy gales,

Old bronco pal.

I’ve followed your pounding feet

With all their rhythm my heart would beat,

Old bronco pal.

Yippee-ay, we’re off to a northern land.

Yippee-o, then back to the Rio Grande.

Someday, where an angel waits,

I’ll ride you up to the Pearly Gates,

Old bronco pal.

The bridge is sung by an unidentified singer, mimed by Bob in Rio Grande (1938 – Columbia / Starrett. There are various ideas on the identification of the voice. Some are certain it belonged to Don Grayson.

"The first section of the song, which is repeated, is the chorus (or vocal refrain). The middle part is the verse, which in this case is used as a "bridge" between repeats of the chorus. Although usually written to introduce a song, verses were often used between choruses of a song as is the verse is in Bronco Pal." (Wayne Shrope)

SHEET MUSIC: Suzette Spencer Marshall transcribed the song into sheet music in 2004.