The following Web sites courtesy of Bill D, my spouse, who told me to search for salty.dog.rag (not salty.dog) via AltaVista. Sorry, I don't know how to put in a direct link, and Bill is busy turning wooden bowls.

1. "...The lyrics - the dog - the dance - the drink..." The lyrics at this site are well done. They agree with the recorded version in Site 2:

http://www.wco.com/~jbrux/bbrux/html/salty_dog.htm

2. Lyrics on following site are full of typos and other mistakes, but it has a full audio clip of the record. Warning: this page is BIG (1.37MB). It starts playing the audio before it finishes loading it.

http://people.delphi.com/thereis/saltydog.html

3. This last site actually has the square dance steps:

http://members.aol.com/ldarchives/salty_dog_rag.htm

I'm so glad you asked for this. Hadn't heard it since around 1964. During high school and college years, my sister and I sang & played in hospital wards. Favorites, folk, etc. The Red Cross said they had a special need: a man named Gene (last name long forgotten) had given his time every Monday night for eighteen years to call square dances for servicemen recovering from psychiatric problems. Would we bring some of our friends to be square dance partners? Of course we did. "The Salty Dog Rag" was a favorite. At least one patient asked to be re-admitted long enough to thank us and say how much the dancing helped his recovery.

Another nice thing came from those dances: Gene asked me to partner him in an exhibition square with the Ralph Case dancers. So I got to take part in one of the early National Folk Festivals. Good memories. Thanks.