It's interesting that no one has mentioned the Reindeer Song in connection with this thread. Evidently, as the song filtered through the Appalachian and Ozark Mountains, Reynardine became corrupted into reindeer. I guess those early settlers didn't know much French, and when they tried to sing the song, they sort of plugged in whatever word sounded close. In the process, the song lost its sinister aspects and became more like a tall tale bordering on just a nonsense song. Gail Davies makes refference to it in her song "Grandma's Song" and uses it at the end of the song. Cathy Barton Para collected a version of it in Donophan, Missouri, and included it in her cover of "Grandma's Song". The recording can be obtained from Folk-Legacy Records.