Old Jesse Chisholm was a waggoneer back in 1866
With wagonloads of buffalo hides, tryin' to get rich
The trail from deep in Texas, across the Oklahoma plains
All the way to Wichita to catch the north-bound trains

Then cowboys followed with the long horns, with dust that filled the sky
To stay in touch they sang a song, yippee yi, comme ky, comme ky
Then a cowboy came to Africa, that's how it came to be
Sang a song to a trooper, the trooper from the BSAP

Comme ky, comme ky, comme yippee yippee ji
That's how it came to be
When the cowboy met the trooper
The trooper from the BSAP

Those cowboys from the Chisholm trail, their hardships were the same
Heat and dust and the friends you can trust in the land they were tryin' to tame
And that song was catchin' on, music seeds were sown
And the regimental band, later kept it as their own

Comme ky, comme ky, comme yippee yippee ji
That's how it came to be
When the cowboy met the trooper
The trooper from the BSAP

Comme ky, comme ky, comme yippee yippee ji
That's how it came to be
When the cowboy met the trooper
The trooper from the BSAP