# "Shake a leg bone, come with me, down to Nashville, Tennessee..."

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shake-a-leg-bone-come-with-me-down-to-nashville-tennessee/378249>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 28, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shake-a-leg-bone-come-with-me-down-to-nashville-tennessee/378249 "2006-10-28T16:50:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shake-a-leg-bone-come-with-me-down-to-nashville-tennessee/378249/1 "2006-10-28T16:50:49Z")

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If you clicked on this thread, I presume you’ve heard this tiny song snippet in a Warner Brothers cartoon. The plot involves a romantic triangle between Daffy, a lady duck, and a big strong duck with a southern accent. The big strong duck sings this snippet to the lady duck on the beach.

Does anyone know if this was from a complete song? Or was it just dashed off for the cartoon?

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shake-a-leg-bone-come-with-me-down-to-nashville-tennessee/378249/2 "2006-10-28T19:51:17Z")

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Google reveals nothing.

I don’t recall either the song, **or** the cartoon.

Could you be recalling another character? Or mishearing the lyrics.

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**Author:** ![hanikamiya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/97f17d/32.png) [@hanikamiya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hanikamiya)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shake-a-leg-bone-come-with-me-down-to-nashville-tennessee/378249/3 "2015-05-30T01:06:07Z")

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The song was performed by Dinah Shore.

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shake-a-leg-bone-come-with-me-down-to-nashville-tennessee/378249/4 "2015-05-30T01:21:44Z")

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Aw, now [a link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lle9iNFdBeA) would have been nice. (And it looks like the actual line is "Chick-a-ling bone, come with me. . . . " I never knew, either.)