Rocky Top.
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?
1b) An orphan calf
- 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.”