we chased lady luck till we finally struck bonanza with a gun and a rope and a hatful of hope we planted our family tree we got ahold of a potful of gold bonanza with a horse and a saddle and a rig full of cattle how rich can a fella be on this land we put our brand cartwright is the name fortune smiled the day we filed the ponderosa claim here in the west we re livin in the best bonanza if anyone fights any one of us he s gonna fight with me hoss and joe and adam know every rock and pine no one works fights or eats like those boys of mine here we stand in the middle of a grand bonanza with a gun and a rope and a hatful of hope we planted our family tree we got ahold of a potful of gold bonanza with a houseful of friends where the rainbow ends how rich can a fella be on this land we put our brand cartwright is the name fortune smiled the day we filed the ponderosa claim here in the west we re livin in the best bonanza with the friendliest fightenist lovingest band that ever set foot in the promised land and we re happier than them all that s why we call it bonanza bonanza bonanza bonanza ist ein englisches wort spanischen ursprungs fr ergiebige goldgrube die fiktive ranch heit ponderosa benannt nach den dort wachsenden ponderosa pines 