My favorite version is the Dillards', complete with one of the brothers talking about some old blue-tick hound layin up in your outhouse to get shelter from a snow storm so that you can't get in.They had an outhouse that was 50 feet from the main house "Which was about 50 feet too far in the winter. Course in the summer, it was about 50 feet too close."

I had a Lab puppy who grew to be a big-hearted strong-as-a-bull 140 lbs with a brain the size of a walnut.I named him Blue, after the song. He was 14 when he died, after stickin with me through thick and thin. Like the song says "when I get to Heaven, first thing I'll do... Take out my horn and call for Blue"