Sorry for the delay, Bingley--when I first came upon this thread I didn't have time to reply. I see you're a pooh-bah now--congratulations. Yes, Kentucky's landlocked: the Ohio is a mighty river but it ain't no ocean, so I dunno why that's the version my mother learned, but that's what she taught me. I've never heard the shepherd version. Now there's irony for you: me, landlocked, learning sailor, and you and sjm, on islands (albeit large ones) learning shepherd.

sjm, you were part of the reason I didn't want to post in haste; my thoughts have been in a whirl, trying to think of some logical reason why you're South, bottom, and I'm North, top--and I can't come up with one! Which way is up, on a sphere?