COWBOY BUCKAROOS Music & Lyric by Mason Williams My childhood heroes were the stars of the early cowboy movies, the singing Cowboy Buckaroos. These films were called Country & Western movies & this is, in fact, where the term “Country & Western music” comes from, it was the kind of music associated with those films. Every generation has their pop culture morality plays and Hoppy, Gene & Roy & all those other great Cowboy Buckaroos were mine. I wrote the song in 1968, at the time I was also writing for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. One of the things that was beginning to dawn on me was that the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was having a big impact on young people. Thinking back on what had impressed me as a kid, I thought about all the cowboy movies I had seen and, in retrospect, how they had been the morality plays of my younger days. I decided to write a song about it. The chorus embraced the Country Western vocal harmonies in t...