Git Along, Little Dogies
"Git Along, Little Dogies" is a traditional cowboy ballad, also performed under the title "Whoopie Ti Yi Yo." The melody and lyrics were first published in 1910 in John Lomax's Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads.[1] It is cataloged as Roud Folk Song Index No. 827. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.[2]
Artists who have played the song include Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter, the Sons of the Pioneers, The Bar G Wranglers, The Kingston Trio, Charlie Daniels, David Bromberg, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Holly Golightly, and Nickel Creek. It was adapted in the cartoon Animaniacs as "The Ballad of Magellan".
Many people think the song's lyrics are doggies (i.e. puppies) but a dogie[3] actually refers to a motherless calf.
References
- ↑ Lomax, John A. (1910). Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads. New York: Sturgis & Walton. p. 87.
- ↑ Western Writers of America (2010). "The Top 100 Western Songs". American Cowboy. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014.
- ↑ http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dogies
External links
- The Library of Congress: The American Folklife Center
- White, John I., Git Along, Little Dogies: Songs and Songmakers of the American West (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975), referenced in "AFC News," Summer 2006, The Library of Congress: The American Folklife Center
- "Guides to Special Collections" in the Music Division of the Library of Congress", Library of Congress