The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away!)

"The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away!)" is a song in the 1953 film Calamity Jane, written by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, and performed by Doris Day.^[1] It was also used in the London stage show Calamity Jane in 2003^[2] and the musical based on Doris Day's greatest hits, A Sentimental Journey.^[3]

"The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away!)"
Song by Doris Day
from the album Calamity Jane
Released	1953 (1953)
Genre	Popular
Composer(s)	Sammy Fain
Lyricist(s)	Paul Francis Webster

The song's opening lines are:

Oh! The Deadwood Stage is a-rollin' on over the plains,

with the curtains flappin' and the driver slappin' the reins.

Beautiful sky! A wonderful day!

Whip crack-away!, Whip crack-away!, Whip crack-away!

It goes on to contain a macabre line about Wild Bill Hickok, "on his gun there's more than twenty-seven notches".^[4]

In 1957, Clint Walker sings the song in the Cheyenne episode "The Conspirators".

In 2010, Australian singer Melinda Schneider recorded the song for her Doris Day tribute album Melinda Does Doris.