The lyric asking where the red river runs, with the answer "from our front door until the rising sun", also appears at the very end of the Act 1 finale to the 1954 musical The Gokden Apple, by Jerome Moross and John Latouche. It is sung by a ship figurehead as Ulysses and his men go off tobring back Helen - all on Mt Olympus in Washington State in the year 1900.