You Can't Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd

"You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd"
Single by Roger Miller
from the album The Return of Roger Miller
B-side"Train of Life"
Released1966
Genre Country, novelty
Length1:48
LabelSmash
SongwriterRoger Miller
ProducerJerry Kennedy
Roger Miller singles chronology
"Husbands and Wives"
(1966)
"You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd"
(1966)
"My Uncle Used to Love Me But She Died"
(1966)

"You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd" is a novelty song written and recorded by American singer‑songwriter Roger Miller. The lyrics list a series of improbable or impossible activities and end with a refrain that contrasts those impossibilities with a simple statement about being happy.