The tune for Old Dog Tray cropped up in the thread ADD: Happy Miner/Unhappy Miner (Old Put) where it is cited as the tune for The Unhappy Miner. Although the lyrics are in the DT: Old Dog Tray, there is no tune there, nor is there one in Mudcat Midis, so I'm posting the tune here. The source was sheet music at Levy: Old Dog Tray at Levy. The sheet music there also has one extra verse compared to that in the DT, so I give the full text from Levy also.

Mick

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OLD DOG TRAY
(Stephen C. Foster)

The morn of life is past, And evening comes at last:
It brings me a dream of a once happy day
Of merry forms I've seen, Upon the village green,
Sporting with my old dog Tray.
  Old dog Tray's ever faithful,
  Grief cannot drive him a-way;
  He's gentle, he is kind, I'll never, never find
  A better friend than old dog Tray.

The forms I called my own Have vanished one by one,
The loved ones, the dear ones have all passed away,
Their happy smiles have flown Their gentle voices gone,
I've nothing left but old dog Tray.
  Old dog Tray's ever faithful,
  Grief cannot drive him a-way;
  He's gentle, he is kind, I'll never, never find
  A better friend than old dog Tray.

When thoughts recall the past His eyes are on me cast;
I know that he feels what my drooping heart would say:
Although he cannot speak, I'll vainly, vainly seek
A better friend than old dog Tray.
  Old dog Tray's ever faithful,
  Grief cannot drive him a-way;
  He's gentle, he is kind, I'll never, never find
  A better friend than old dog Tray.

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X:1
T:Old Dog Tray
C:Stephen C. Foster
L:1/8
M:C
K:A
"^Andante"
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w:The morn of life is past, And eve-ning comes at last:
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w:It brings me a dream of a once hap-py day
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w:Of mer-ry forms I've seen, Up-on the vil-lage green,
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w:Sport-ing with my old dog Tray.
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w:Old dog Tray's ev-er faith-ful,
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w:Grief can-not drive him a-way;
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w:He's gen-tle, he is kind, I'll nev-er, nev-er find
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w:A bet-ter friend than old dog Tray.