"Minnie's Yoo Hoo" was first performed by Mickey Mouse in the short, Mickey's Follies. The song was written by Carl Stalling and Walt Disney and has since been performed in On the Record. It then became the theme song of Mickey's theatrical cartoon series until 1933. It was also shown being played on a phonograph in the comic strip storyline "Mr. Slicker and the Egg Robbers".
The song was later used as the theme for The Mouse Factory.
A re-orchestrated instrumental version was used as the opening theme to Mickey Mouse Works.
Mickey sang the song again, with slightly modified lyrics, in the House of Mouse episode "Mickey and the Culture Clash", where he and Minnie referred to it as their song.
An instrumental version of the song can heard in the Mickey Mouse episode "Eau de Minnie" and as Minnie was "la-laaing" to it while walking on her way to her date with Mickey. Also, in the episode "Bottle Shocked", the song can briefly be heard as a ringtone on Mickey's cell phone.
Lyrics
I'm the guy they call little Mickey Mouse
Got a sweetie down in the chicken house
Neither fat nor skinny
She's the horse's whinny
She's my little Minnie Mouse!
When it's feedin' time for the animals
And they howl and growl like the cannibals
I just turn my heel to the henhouse steal
And you'll hear me sing this song
Oh, the old tomcat with the meow, meow, meow!
Ol' hound dog with the bow-wow-wow!
The crow's caw-caw!
And the mule's hee-haw!
Gosh what a racket like an ol' buzz saw!
I have listened to the cuckoo cuke his coo-coo!
And I've heard the rooster cock his doodle doo-oo
With the cows and the chickens
They all sound like the dickens when I hear my little Minnie's Yoo-Hoo!
Oh the blue bird down in the cherry tree
And the busy buzz of the bumblebee
Evening bells a-ringin'
Whip-poor-wills a-singin'
Well they don't mean much to me!
For my heart is down in the chicken house
Where I long to be with my Minnie Mouse
And I'll meet her there
Mid that fragrance rare
Sing to her this melody!
Oh, the old tomcat with the meow, meow, meow!
Ol' hound dog with the bow-wow-wow!
The crow's caw-caw!
And the mule's hee-haw!
Gosh what a racket like an ol' buzz saw!
I have listened to the cuckoo cuke his coo-coo!
And I've heard the rooster cock his doodle doo-oo
With the cows and the chickens
They all sound like the dickens when I hear my little Minnie's Yoo-Hoo!
