YIPPEE-KI-YAY. – English Lyrics

• By: Kesha

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into Kesha's playful, genre-blending track "YIPPEE-KI-YAY." featuring T-Pain, a slice of carefree country-pop energy that showcases her artistic rebirth. While the lyrics are primarily in English, the vibrant blend of pop, hip-hop, and country elements offers a fun, accessible entry point to understanding modern, defiant pop storytelling through catchy hooks perfect for any summer party.

[English]

Bitch, I just got a brand-new car

Hoes meet down at the trailer park

We lit up like a bonfire

Singing, "Yippee-ki-yay, yippee-ki-ya-ya"

That whiskey spilled, it's already gone

That dress you bought, go on and put it on

To waste tonight would be criminal

Put my record on, sing it

It rained all year but it's clearing up

I'm flying high, it's a miracle

I'm drinking spirits and spiritual

Good god, damn, yeehaw

Ooh, that's what I like

I'm feeling loose, I'm feeling light

I'm hella smooth, like Miller Lite

I got the moves, I'm everybody's type (hey!)

Bitch, I just got a brand-new car

Hoes meet down at the trailer park

We lit up like a bonfire

Singing, "Yippee-ki-yay, yippee-ki-ya-ya"

Bitch, I just got a brand-new start

Call the cops, baby, kumbaya

We lit up like a bonfire

Singing, "Yippee-ki-yay, yippee-ki-ya-ya"

Ya-ya, ya-ya, ya-ya, ya-ya, ya-ya, ya-ya, ya-ya, ya-ya

Put your hands up in the sky-ya-ya (ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya)

Yippee-ki-yay, yippee-ki-ya-ya

There's a two-for-one at the Dollar Tree

Double cup of straight gasoline

Look around, the only ten I see

Is his barefoot body from Tennessee

Got a two-step stomp down to cowboy street

Beers are good and the liquor is cheap

Pretty thing in these tight blue jeans

Good god, damn, yeehaw

Ooh, pass me the mic

I'm singing karaoke out of time

I'm out of tune, I'm out of lines

So pay my bail if I go to jail tonight (hey)

Bitch, I just got a brand-new car

Hoes meet down at the trailer park

We lit up like a bonfire

Singing, "Yippee-ki-yay, yippee-ki-ya-ya"

Bitch, I just got a brand-new start

Call the cops, baby, kumbaya

We lit up like a bonfire

Singing, "Yippee-ki-yay, yippee-ki-ya-ya"

Ya-ya, ya-ya, ya-ya, ya-ya, ya-ya, ya-ya, ya-ya, ya-ya

Put your hands up in the sky-ya-ya (ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya)

Yippee-ki-yay, yippee-ki-ya-ya

Ya-ya, ya-ya, ya-ya, ya-ya, ya-ya, ya-ya, ya-ya, ya-ya

Put your hands up in the sky-ya-ya (ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya)

Yippee-ki-yay, yippee-ki-ya-ya

...

Key Grammar Structures

• Bitch, I just got a brand-new car

  ➔ Present perfect with 'just' for recent actions

  ➔ The word "just" indicates that the action of getting a car happened very recently.

• We lit up like a bonfire

  ➔ Simile using 'like' to compare actions

  ➔ The phrase "like a bonfire" compares their lighting up to a bonfire using 'like'.

• It rained all year but it's clearing up

  ➔ Contrast with 'but' and present continuous tense

  ➔ "but" contrasts the past continuous rain with the present action of clearing up.

• I'm flying high, it's a miracle

  ➔ Present continuous tense and impersonal expression

  ➔ "I'm flying high" uses present continuous to describe feeling elevated; "it's a miracle" states an impersonal fact.

• I'm drinking spirits and spiritual

  ➔ Parallelism and noun/adjective play

  ➔ The speaker uses parallel structure with "spirits" (alcohol) and "spiritual" (adjective) as a wordplay.

• Call the cops, baby, kumbaya

  ➔ Imperative command with vocative and cultural reference

  ➔ "Call" is an imperative verb directing an action; "baby" is a vocative; "kumbaya" references a cultural/spiritual song.

• I'm out of tune, I'm out of lines

  ➔ Idiomatic expression with 'out of' + noun

  ➔ "Out of tune" means not singing correctly; "out of lines" means no more lyrics or things to say.

• Put your hands up in the sky-ya-ya

  ➔ Imperative verb with a colloquial phrase

  ➔ "Put" commands listeners to raise their hands; the "ya-ya" adds rhythmic emphasis typical in songs.