"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 horses' whinny,
It's my little
Minnie Mouse,
When it's feeding time
for the animals,
And they howl and growl
like the cannibals,
I just turn my heel-
to the hen house steel-
And you'll hear me
sing this song:-
Oh! the old tomcat
with his meow meow meow
Old houn' dog
with his bow wow wow,
And the crows caw caw
And the mule's hee-haw!
Gosh, what a racket
Like an old buzz saw
I have listened to the
cuckoo
'Kuke' his cuckoo
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
YOO HOO
Oh the Bluebird
Down in the cherry tree
And the busy buzz
Of the bumble bee,
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 his meow meow meow
Old houn' dog
with his bow wow wow,
And the crows caw caw
And the mule's hee-haw!
Gosh, what a racket
Like an old buzz saw
I have listened to the
cuckoo
'Kuke' his cuckoo
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
YOO HOO
