Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs

Subject: old dog songs
From: Jeep man
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 09:37 PM

How about some songs about old dogs,especially Old Shep?

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 10:52 PM

Hi Jeep Man,

Why don't you go first then?

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 10:53 PM

Wait! I do know one!

Does Salty Dog count?

If not there's always B-I-N-G-O.

I have a really good one ona tape if I can find it.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: raredance
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 11:31 PM

"Old Dog Tray" by Stephen Foster

rich r

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: JenEllen
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 11:37 PM

Can't get the search to work yet, but look for the Animal Songs thread....Catters did an excellent job of coming up with dog songs. Thanks again all...Elle

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: Amos
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 12:53 AM

Elvis' Old Shep and the traditional Old Blue are the top Old Dog songs of all time. Dogs rule, man. Lower him down with a silver chain...

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: Metchosin
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 01:22 AM

Another good dog song here

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: Metchosin
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 01:31 AM

That they do Amos and guess what, Turner and Hootch are on right this minute. Bye for now.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: Crowhugger
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 04:32 AM

If old-before-its-time counts, I'm for "Dead Puppies" - the crow lover in me, I guess.

Subject: Lyr Add: OLD BLUE^^^
From: annamill
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 10:47 AM

OLD BLUE

I had a dog and his name was Blue I had a dog and his name was Blue I had a dog and his name was Blue Betcha five dollars he's a good 'un too

Here Blue, you good dog you

Shouldered my gun and i tooted my horn Gonna find a possum in the new ground corn Old Blue barked and I went to see Cornered a possum up in a tree

Old Blue died and he died so hard Shook the ground in my backyard Dug his grave with a silver spade Lowered him down with links of chain

Every link I did call his name Here Blue, you good dog you Here Blue, I'm a-coming there too

Love, annap ^^^

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: Amos
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 11:11 AM

Git to heaven, first thing I'll do
Blow my horn an call for Blue
Saying "Come on, Blue"
"Finally got here too".

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: jofield
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 01:23 PM

"Old Dogs and Children, and Watermelon Wine" by Tom T. Hall (one of THE greats, Tom T. is).

James in Bristol, RI

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: jofield
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 01:24 PM

...oh, and "Old Rattler" -- practically Grandpa Jones's theme song.

J.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: Timehiker
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 03:37 PM

Get all 'em dogs out from under that porch, Redbone, walker, and bluetick of course. Throw a rock in that brierpatch, I'll prove what I say. He's the fastest rabbit dog in Carter County today.

Howzat? Anybody know the rest of it, by the way? I think Tom T. Hall did that one too.

Take care, Timehiker

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: GUEST,Jim Dixon
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 04:05 PM

There's "Bellman" as done by the Watersons:

"So let's drink a health to our Bellman/His voice you all used to know/And it's hounds of his kind they are very hard to find/And he's gone where the good doggies go."

Sorry, I can't supply any more than that.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: GUEST,Bud Savoie
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 05:00 PM

Jofield, alias James in Bristol, RI ahoy! I'm from Warren (for you outlanders, that's the next town over).

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: GUEST,Arkie
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 05:12 PM

My favorite is the "Hound Dog Song". The campaign song of Champ Clark of Missouri when he made his run for president (of the United States, that is). Legend has it that there is some controversy about whether the song came from Arkansas or Missouri. The folks in Missouri claim it came from Arkansas. The folks in Arkansas say "no way" it came from Missouri. Actually there are several places that lay claim to the song. All having folk who claim to know the principal characters, even the dog, Jim. There is also a song called "Dog" which Martha Adcock claimes to have written about her husband, Eddie. Good song, but not very old.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: JenEllen
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 06:04 PM

Found it. Try this (animal songs), Elle

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: GUEST,Smitty
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 06:21 PM

How about:

Every time I go to town the boys all kick my dog around Makes no difference if it is a hound, gotta quit kickin my dog around.

This is an old one from arkansas -- Jimmy Driftwood recorded it up in Mountain View arkansas...

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: kendall
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 06:30 PM

I recorded Old Shep on Folk Legacy 25 years ago, and thought it was sad until I ran across Old Rover by Hank Snow and Old Gilbert by Slim Dusty of OZ. Those two are real wrenchers.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: Lanfranc
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 07:07 PM

"Old Brown Dog" by Ralph McTell from his "You, Well Meaning, brought me here" Album. Some say it's a bit of a dog, but I like it!

"Dogs at Midnight" by Tom Paxton - it's about mining, but dogs do get a mention.

"How much is that doggie in the window?" from my childhood.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: Metchosin
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 07:23 PM

Also from this thread, Hank Snow's Blind Boy's Dog click here

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: Stewie
Date: 21 Feb 00 - 10:55 PM

Not necessarily an old dog, but Jesse Winchester's 'Black Dog', particularly as recorded by Wizz Jones, is an excellent song.

Black dog don't believe in sin
Who knows where the black dog's been

--Stewie.

Subject: Music for Hound Dog Song
From: Jeep man
Date: 22 Feb 00 - 03:37 PM

You folks have been a great help with my request. I now need the chords or music for all but the chorus, I do know that. Thanks Jim

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: Arkie
Date: 23 Feb 00 - 03:54 PM

The "Hound Dog Song" as was mentioned earlier by me and others can be found in the database. Has words and music. You can do a search if you have not already or copy this in the address bar:
http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=2723

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 21 Dec 01 - 09:19 PM

OLD BLUE: longer and older African-American version posted threadid 9707.
Here

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: 53
Date: 21 Dec 01 - 09:34 PM

feed jake, by confederate railroad, is a damn good dog song. BOB

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: 53
Date: 21 Dec 01 - 09:36 PM

i'm sorry, the song is by the pirates of the mississippi. BOB

Subject: ADD: Rough and Reddy.. by Jerry Rasmussen^^
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 21 Dec 01 - 10:05 PM

Rough was old and grizzled, with a muzzle white as snow
But every hunting season, old Rough was set to go
With legs so short and stumpy, he'd stand on his hind feet
Just to look across the open fields, when the grass was thick and deep

Rough was all confused when they first brought Reddy home
All legs and tail and four big paws, too young to gnaw the bone
And when they went to bed that night, Reddy sat and cried
And they didn't get a wink of sleep, 'till Rough lay by his side

Rough would take him hunting, down by the old fence row
Or down along the weedy banks, where the pheasants liked to go
He taught him how to find the scent and how to keep the trail
And how to run the rows of corn, to flush a flock of quail

It seems like only yesterday, when Rough just up and died
They put him on the wagon, with Reddy by his side
They laid him in the grassy bank, down by the three mile crick
And Reddy sat and whimpered, and wouldn't eat a lick

And now the frost is on the vine, and the wind is stinging cold
And the gun sits in the corner, and Reddy's getting old
He likes to walk the grassy banks, where the crick runs deep and wide
And you know it won't be long 'till he's lying by Rough's side

Rough and Reddy.. by Jerry Rasmussen^^

Two old dogs for the price of one.

This one's for you, Wolfgang..

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: kendall
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 08:55 AM

this is a poem by William Levenworth:

Yellow Dog

You keep your lofty abstract god, Myself, I choose a child of Pan, An ordinary yellow dog Who does for love what mortals can, Who stretches out her mortal frame Determined, although she's lame For one last walk beside her man.

Whose ashes grace the forest way We roamed together yesterday. And, to the wilder god I pray: Give her soul some woods to run, A stick to fetch, a patch of sun. And near her, Pan, preserve a place For me, come from a lesser race.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: kendall
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 08:28 AM

Yes I know how to do the line breaks, I just have other things on my mind right now.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: old dog songs
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 11:07 PM

This thing still active? Looking for a few words for The Fastest Rabbit Dog In Carter County Today.

Dogs from ????? County boys they can't hold a light.
Blue's run that rabbit all day and night
Red Bone, Blue Tick and part ????? they say.
He's the fastest rabbit dog in Carter County today.



Get all them dogs from under that porch
????? ????? ????? ????? ?????
Kick that old brush pile I'll prove what I say,
He's the fastest rabbit dog in Carter County today.

Ken Bonnell Mississippi [e-mail]