Lady from 29 Palms

I was procrastinating today from working on my final exam for class (done on Sunday....YES!), and decided to Wikipedia "Twentynine Palms," to see what came up. Wouldn't you know it, there is a song called "Lady from 29 Palms"! And it gets better...not only are the lyrics awesome (and something I bet a lot of heartbroken single Marines could relate to out here), but the best singers recorded it! Recordings I found on iTunes were by (a very young) Frank, The Andrews Sisters, and Doris Day.

Now how many of you (other than you New Yorkers) can claim that these singers sang a song about your town (ok, I'm technically in Yucca Valley, but 29 is close enough)? I thought so :) Even Hollywood became enchanted and delusional when it came to the Mojave Desert...

"Lady From 29 Palms"

She left twenty-nine broken hearts
Broken in twenty-nine parts
Now there are twenty-nine fellas complainin' to their moms
About the lady from 29 Palms
She got twenty-nine Cadillacs
Twenty-nine sables from Sach's
They came from twenty-nine fellas who never had their arms
Around the lady from 29 Palms
She's a yip-yip-yippy-eyed dolly
A new kinda gal of the west
And yip-yip-yippy by-golly
Whatever she does, she does her best
She rides twenty-nine trails to bliss
Knows twenty-nine ways how to kiss
She is a gal that you dream of, you'd love to have your arms
Around the lady from 29 Palms

She left twenty-nine broken hearts, baby
Broken in twenty-nine parts were their broken hearts, mmm oy-da doy-da
Twenty-nine fellas complainin' to their moms
About the lady from 29 Palms
She got twenty-nine Cadillacs, baby
Twenty-nine sables from Sach's and them Cadillacs, mmm boy-da doy-da
Twenty-nine fellas who never had their arms
Around the lady from 29 Palms
(instrumental break)
She's a yippety-yippety-yippety-eye-oh, what a dolly
A bronco that no one can break
And yippety-yippety-yippety-eye-oh, by-golly
She's never giving, but how she takes
She's got twenty-nine diamond rings
Got, got, got 'em without any strings (Wow!)
A dynamite dream-boat, a load of atom bombs (Who?)
The lady from 29 palms
The lady from 29 palms