Cheyenne was a popular and sentimental song in the early 1900s, centering around a horse. Along with songs like "Pony Boy", it became a cliché, as its tune was frequently used in Western movies and cartoons. One version of the chorus is:
- Cheyenne, Cheyenne
- Hop on my pony
- There's room here
- For two dear
- And after the ceremony
- We'll both ride home as one, as one
- On my pony from old Cheyenne
In the 1943 cartoon "Yankee Doodle Daffy", Daffy Duck puts on a cowboy hat and rides Porky Pig like a horse, as the exasperated pig is trying to get away from the annoying duck, who sings these not-overly-clever lyrics to the same tune:
- I'm a cowboy
- Yes, sir, I am
- Yes, sir, I am a cowboy
- Yes, sir, I am
- I'm a cowboy
- Yes, sir, I am
- Yes, sir, I am a cow-ow-boy
At the time the song was first popular, scandals about conditions in meat-packing plants were in the news. Billy Murray sang a biting parody about a diseased horse that was targeted for such a plant. The chorus:
- Cheyenne, Cheyenne
- You sick old pony
- We'll take you
- And bake you
- And make you into baloney
- And the folks who eat you won't know
- You're that pony from old Cheyenne
