# Trivia from songs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 27, 2011, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755 "2011-09-27T12:07:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/601 "2011-10-10T13:23:43Z")

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> [@Senegoid](#):
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> What place in Tennessee will always be home sweet home to me?

Rocky Top.

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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/602 "2011-10-10T15:16:27Z")

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> [@Jack\_Batty](#):
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> In that case, I’ll say Bob Marley shot the sheriff. But he didn’t shoot the deputy. And Eric Clapton didn’t shoot anyone.

I’ll take any reasonable and accurate answer. The answer I actually had in mind is:

The singer doesn’t actually identify himself in the lyrics, he just sings in the first person. So, solely by the information given in the words, the answer must be: I did.

On what river might your lover be swept away, to be lost forever upon a stormy sea?

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**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/603 "2011-10-11T16:36:48Z")

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> [@Senegoid](#):
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> (1) (a) Where do we throw the dogies early in spring time?  
> (b) What is a dogie?
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> (2) Git along, little dogie. Where am I heading?

1b) An orphan calf

1. Wyoming

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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/604 "2011-10-12T11:20:51Z")

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> [@Senegoid](#):
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> (1) (a) Where do we throw the dogies early in spring time?  
> (b) What is a dogie?
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> (2) Git along, little dogie. Where am I heading?

> [@MacLir](#):
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> 1b) An orphan calf
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> 1. Wyoming

Hey, come to think of it you’re right. The same song referenced in (1) does have the words “Git along little dogie”, thus making Wyoming the right answer to (2). Yet, I was thinking of ANOTHER old cowpoke song that has those words too, in which I’m heading to some (metaphorical) place that probably isn’t Wyoming. BTW, where we throw the dogies is “out onto the trail.”

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