The song became a staple of the underscore of western films, to the point of being stereotyped. It also lent itself well to parody. 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 rid of and away from the annoying duck, who sings these not-overly-clever lyrics to the same tune: At the time the song was first popular, scandals about conditions in meat-packing plants were in the news.
Billy Murray, who had also recorded a "straight" version of the song, recorded a biting parody about a diseased horse that was targeted for such a plant. The chorus: ==References==