"Cow Cow Boogie (Cuma-Ti-Yi-Yi-Ay)" is a "country-boogie"-style blues song, with music was written by Don Raye, and lyrics were written by Benny Carter and Gene De Paul.
[1] The song was written for the 1942 Abbott & Costello film Ride 'Em Cowboy, which included Ella Fitzgerald as a cast member, but was cut from the movie.
In the lyrics, the cowboy is from the city and tells his "dogies" (motherless calves)[2] to "get hip."
The first recording was by Freddie Slack & his Orchestra, featuring vocalist Ella Mae Morse in 1942.
[3] Haruomi Hosono recorded the song as 'Cow Cow Boogie' on the 2013 covers album Heavenly Music.