Thought I might refresh this as there is concurrently a thread on Songs about Horses, and I also diverted into the one on The Last Trip Home, and there was someone called BK looking for The Last Clydesdales way back in 1999!

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Thread #127051   Message #4126754
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
19-Nov-21 - 07:39 PM
Thread Name: Songs about a man's love for his horse
Subject: ADD: The Last Clydesdales

I don’t think anyone has mentioned this one yet. Archie Fisher, among others, sings it.

THE LAST CLYDESDALES
(composed by a Fife horseman Archie Webster around 1950.)

Noo come aa ye young plooboys an 'list tae ma tale,
Wha sit roon the table aa drinkin your ale;
I'll tak ye aa back tae yon far distant day,
When I drove the last Clydesdales tae work on Denbrae.

There were twa bonnie blacks wi white faces an feet,
In the hale country roun they could never be beat,
Ye'd tae look roun gey far 'tween the Forth and the Tay,
Tae match ma twa Clydesdales, the pride o Denbrae.

They were matchless in power in the cairt, binder or ploo,
Ma voice and ma hands on the reins they well knew;
There wis niver a thocht in their minds but obey,
Ma twa gallant Clydesdales, the pride o Denbrae.?

But the time it wears on and the winters grow cauld,
And horses like men can dae nocht but grow auld;
But I mind on them still though it were yesterday,
When I drove the last Clydesdales that worked on Denbrae.

So come aa ye young plooboys an 'list tae ma tale,
Wha sit roon the table aa drinkin your ale;
I'll tak ye aa back tae yon far distant day,
When I drove the last Clydesdales tae work on Denbrae.