Question

This state has designated the most state songs, including a rather strange “Bicentennial Rap” and another song that says a certain precipitation “keeps on falling” and “I keep on calling her name”. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this state which claims the song “Smoky Mountain Rain”. A singer from this state recorded Merle Travis’s 1955 classic “Sixteen Tons” and was known as Ernie Ford.
ANSWER: Tennessee [accept Tennessee Ernie Ford]
[10h] Another state song, “Tennessee Waltz”, was the signature song of this woman behind “(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?” and “Old Cape Cod”.
ANSWER: Patti Page [or Clara Ann Fowler]
[10e] Steve Earle might be best known for singing a Tennessee state song titled for a “Copperhead” one of these locations. “Country” ones of these locations title a John Denver song that begins “Almost heaven, West Virginia”.
ANSWER: road [accept “Copperhead Road”; accept “Take Me Home, Country Roads”]
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