 Mason Stewart of AllMusic described the song as "try[ing] so desperately hard to establish Owen's image as a bad-ass hellraiser that [it] finally become[s] comical".In 2017, "Billboard contributor Chuck Dauphin put "Yee Haw" at number five on his top 10 list of Owen's best songs.The music video was directed by Wes Edwards and premiered in early 2006.