Jewel Thieves

I walked along the railroad tracks

Looking for gems tossed from the train

By jewel thieves getting rid of the evidence

Before the law caught up to them

I imagined the lawmen

Chasing the train on horseback guns blazing

Hanging on to their hats

And hollering “Yippee i-o-ki-ay”

And I watched that train disappear around the bend

Or was I the one around the bend

Because whoever heard of lawmen

Chasing crooks on a train hollering

“Yippee i-o-ki-ay”

Shouldn’t it have been

"Yippee-i-o-ki-yay?"

I suppose it's hard to say

But I better get back to work

If I have any hope of finding gems

Along these tracks

Which seem to go on forever