Rover (III), The

DESCRIPTION: "I had a dog, his name was Rover; When he died, He died all over; All but his tail, And it turned over."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1980 (Solomon-ZickaryZan)
KEYWORDS: dog death
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Solomon-ZickaryZan, p. 106, "Rover" (1 text)
MidwestFolklore, W. L. McAtee, "Some Folklore of Grant County, Indiana, in the Nineties," Volume 1, Number 4 (WInter 1951), p. 256, "(I had a little dog)" (1 text)
MidwestFolklore, Lucille S. Mitchell, "My School Days," Volume 3, Number 3 (Fall 1953), p. 172, "(Had a little mule and his name was Jack)"/"(Had a little dog, his name was rover" (2 fragments)

Roud #16231?
NOTES [63 words]: The first four lines of this are pretty clearly to be associated with either "A Horse Named Bill" or "Crazy Song to the Air of 'Dixie,'" but the last two lies of the Solomon-ZickaryZan version cannot be sung to "Dixie," so I have very tentatively separated the two. The MidwestFolklore version can be sung to "Dixie," but is too short to classify, so it might as well go here. - RBW
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