 "Way Up on Clinch Mountain," a folk song based on a 17th-century Scottish ballad, was recorded by Woody Guthrie as "Rye Whiskey," and is included in Carl Sandburg's "American Songbag".The song is credited by him with inspiring the legion of "Bang Bang Lulu" variants.The Carter Family immortalized the American mountain in their 1928 "My Clinch Mountain Home."