This surprised me when I looked it up. I was SURE McFarlane wrote the song for the movie, it just seemed like one of these Western parody things where part of the joke is how odd and old-fashioned mustaches seem today (especially the elaborate handlebar variety). When I went to the imdb's soundtrack section and saw Foster listed as the writer, at first I hardly could believe it--I thought someone had submitted that entry to the imdb as a joke. Then I did some Google searches and tracked down the lyrics. The song in the movie is in fact slightly altered from the original to give it a more "modern" feel, but it's basically the same song.
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