I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone - "I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone?"

"I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone?"

Written for the vaudeville stage, the lyrics tell of a Susie Johnson who bets on a horse race using a tip from Jockey Lee, who subsequently runs off with her money.

First verse:

Miss Susie Johnson is a crazy as can be

About that easy riding kid they call Jockey Lee.

Now don't you think it's funny, only bets her money

In the race friend jockey's goin' to be.

There was a race down at the track the other day,

And Susie got an inside tip right away

She bet a "hundred to one" that her little "Hon"

Would bring home all the "mon".

When she found out "Jockey" was not there,

Miss Susie cried out in despair

Chorus:

I wonder where my easy rider's gone today

He never told me he was goin' away.

If he was here he'd win the race

If not first he'd get a "place"

Cash in our winnings, on a "joy-ride" we'd go, right away

I'm losing my money that's why I am blue.

To win a race, Lee knows just what to do.

I'd put all my junk in pawn,

To be on any horse that jockey's on.

Oh' I wonder where my easy rider's gone.

"I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone?" was first popularized on the vaudeville stage by Sophie Tucker. It is most noted for its performance in a 1933 movie, She Done Him Wrong, in which Mae West sang it in a suggestive manner. It is perhaps this performance which gave it its hokum reputation.