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Jim Dixon Songs About Dogs (270* d) Lyr Add: WALKING THE DOG (Rufus Thomas) 05 Aug 17


The Rolling Stones covered this in 1964.


WALKING THE DOG
As recorded by Rufus Thomas, 1963.

Mary Mack, dressed in black
Silver buttons all down her back
How low, tipsy toe
She broke the needle and she can't sew

CHORUS: Walkin' the dog, just a-walkin' the dog,
If you don't know how to do it, I'll show you how to walk the dog.

Asked my mama for fifteen cents
To see the elephant jump the fence
He jumped so high he touched the sky
Never got back till the fourth of July

Mary, Mary, quite contrary
Tell me, how does your garden grow?
You got silver bells and you got cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row


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