I’ve never heard of the song, but I did hear the phrase in many cowboy TV shows, when the word “doggies” was often pronounced with a long “o”, as in “dough-geez”.

charghwI’ vaghnerya’ngan

rInpa’ bomnIS be’’a’ pI’.

On Nov 13, 2020, at 10:19 AM, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:

On 11/13/2020 10:08 AM, Steven Boozer wrote:
"Git Along, Little Dogies"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_Along,_Little_Dogies

We had to suffer through this song repeatedly in my third grade music class, and it surfaces in my memory occasionally like PTSD. Dogies does not sound like doggies; the first syllable do rhymes with the word so (and the Klingon syllable Do).

Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies!
It's your misfortune and none of my own.
Whoopie ti yi yo, git along little dogies!
You know that Wyoming will be your new home.

Since this is the only context in which anyone remembers the word dogies nowadays, I have no doubt that Okrand was thinking about this song when he invented the word.

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