Get Along, Little Dogies

DESCRIPTION: Characterized by the chorus, "Whoopee ti yi yo, get along, little dogies, It's your misfortune and none of my own. Whoopee ti yi yo, get along, little dogies,You know Wyoming will be your new home." Tells of herding cattle down the trail for slaughter
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1893 (journal of Owen Wister)
KEYWORDS: cowboy animal work
FOUND IN: US(MW,SE,So)
REFERENCES (34 citations):
Randolph 178, "Little Doogie" (sic) (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Sandburg-TheAmericanSongbag, pp. 268-270 "Whoopee, Ti Yi Yo, Git Along, Little Dogies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Thorp/Logsdon-SongsOfTheCowboys, pp. 70-71, "Get Along, Little Dogies" (1 text)
Fife/Fife-CowboyAndWesternSongs 76, "Git Along Little Dogies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Neely/Spargo-TalesAndSongsOfSouthernIllinois, pp. 184-185, "Whoopee, Ti Yi Yo" (1 text)
Lomax/Lomax-FolkSongUSA 58, "Git Along Little Dogies" (1 text plus addenda, 1 tune)
Lomax/Lomax-AmericanBalladsAndFolkSongs, pp. 385-389, "Git Along, Little Dogies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax/Lomax-OurSingingCountry, pp. 242-244, "Run Along, Little Dogies" (1 text, 1 tune, mostly "Get Along, Little Dogies" but with lyrics imported from "Rocking the Cradle (and the Child Not His Own)")
Lomax-FolkSongsOfNorthAmerica 189, "Go On, You Little Dogies"; 190, "Run Along, You Little Dogies" (2 texts, 2 tunes, both of which appear to be mixtures of this song with something else; the chorus of 190 derives partly from "Rocking the Cradle (and the Child Not His Own)")
Larkin-SingingCowboy, pp. 98-104, "Git Along Little Dogies" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Moore/Moore-BalladsAndFolkSongsOfTheSouthwest 140, "Whoopee High Ogie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Abernethy-SinginTexas, p. 139, "Git Along, Little Dogies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Morris-FolksongsOfFlorida, #16, "Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Git Along Little Dogies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tinsley-HeWasSinginThisSong, pp. 40-45, "Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo, Git Along Little Dogies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-TreasuryOfAmericanFolklore, pp. 853-854, "Git Along, Little Dogies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Pound-AmericanBalladsAndSongs, 80, pp. 174-175, "Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Git Along Little Dogies" (1 text)
Welsch-NebraskaPioneerLore, pp. 26-28, "Git Along Little Dogies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnett-IHearAmericaSinging, pp. 126-127, "Git Along, Little Dogies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Saffel-CowboyPoetry, pp. 174-175, "Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Git Along Little Dogies" (1 text)
Fireside-Book-of-Folk-Songs, p. 162, "Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest, pp. 227-228, "(No title)" (1 text)
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 365-366, "Git Along, Little Dogies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 109, "Git Along, Little Dogies" (1 text)
Fuld-BookOfWorldFamousMusic, p. 244, "Git Along Little Dogies (Whoopee Ti Ti Yo)"
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, pp. 54, 230, "Get along Little Dogies" (notes only)
GirlScouts-SingTogether, pp. 86-87, "The Dogie Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Zander/Klusmann-CampSongsNThings, p. 78, "Git Along, LIttle Dogie" (sic.; the text refers to "dogies") (1 text, 1 tune)
Zander/Klusmann-CampSongsPopularEdition, p. 42, "Git Along, Little Dogies" (1 text)
BoyScoutSongbook1997, pp. 84-85, "The Dogie Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
National-4HClubSongBook, p. 37, "Dogie Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
OneTuneMore, p. 33, "Dogie Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, GITDOGIE*
ADDITIONAL: John I. White, _Git Along, Little Dogies: Songs and Songmakers of the American West_, 1975 (page references are to the 1989 University of Illinois Press edition), pp. 16-26, "Git Along, LIttle Dogies" (1 text, 1 tune, plus various excerpts and a history of the song)
Powder River Jack and Kitty Lee's _Songs of the Range: Cowboy Wails of Cattle Trails_, Chart Music, 1937, pp. 14-15, "Whoopee, Ty Yi Oh, Get Along Little Doggies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #827
RECORDINGS:
Bill Bender (The Happy Cowboy), "Whoopee Ti Yi Yo" (Varsity 5153/Elite X18, n.d., rec. 1939)
Beverly Hill Billies, "Whoopee Ti Yi Yo Get Along" (Brunswick 598. 1932)
Cartwright Brothers, "Get Along Little Dogies" (Columbia 15410-D, 1929; rec. 1928; on WhenIWas2)
Cowboy Tom's Roundup w. Chief Shunatona, Doug McTague & Skookum, "Cowboy Tom's Roundup, Part 1" [medley], (Columbia 15781-D, 1932)
Edward L. Crain, "Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Git Along Little Doggies" (Crown 3275/Homestead 23003, 1932; rec. 1931)
Eddie Dean, "Get Along Little Dogies" (Conquror 8598, 1935)
Girls of the Golden West, "Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along Little Doggies" (Bluebird B-5718, 1934)
Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston, "Whoopie-Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along Little Dogies" (on Struggle2, CowFolkCD1)
Beverly Hillbillies, "Whoopie Ti Yi Yo" (Brunswick 598, c. 1931)
Kenneth Houchins, "Get Along Little Doggies" (Champion 16584, 1933)
Harry Jackson, "As I Went Walking One Morning for Pleasure" (on HJackson1)
Harry "Mac" McClintock, "Get Along, Little Doggies" (Victor V-40016, 1929, rec. 1928; Montgomery Ward M-4469 [as Harry "Mac" McClintock and his Haywire Orchestra], 1934)
Pete Seeger, "Little Dogies" (on PeteSeeger09, PeteSeegerCD02)
John I. White, the Lonesome Cowboy, "Whoopee-Ti-Yi-Yo" (Banner 32179/Perfect 12709//Conqueror 7753/Romeo 1629 [as "Little Doggies"], 1931; on BackSaddle)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Night Herding Song
NOTES [54 words]: Welsch-NebraskaPioneerLore and Abernethy-SinginTexas both claim this is derived from "Rocking the Cradle (and the Child Not His Own)," and Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest lists that as the tune. There are obvious similarities, but not enough that I would necessarily call either a descendant of the other. - RBW
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File: R178

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