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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: GUEST Date: 31 Mar 15 - 12:57 AM Wdead slunk in the middle of the droad by Loudon Wainright |
Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: GUEST,Iain Date: 31 Mar 15 - 04:48 AM I quite like "The Ballad of roadkill Jack" |
Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Jim Dixon Date: 20 Apr 15 - 07:52 PM BELLMAN from the singing of the Watersons. |
Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Jack Campin Date: 20 Apr 15 - 08:18 PM The Salting of the Slug Digitrad link I hadn't heard it sung until just now - my guess at the tune was "The Rising of the Moon", but the video uses the "Flora, Lily of the West" tune. |
Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Ged Fox Date: 21 Apr 15 - 04:25 AM The Presbyterian Cat - killed a mouse and was hanged for it. |
Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: dick greenhaus Date: 21 Apr 15 - 10:21 AM Dunderbeck |
Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Cool Beans Date: 21 Apr 15 - 11:27 AM My friend John Finan wrote and performs a song called "Suicide Squirrel" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Oa0M3bjLM |
Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: GUEST,Rachel Date: 21 Apr 15 - 12:13 PM Road Kill Cafe Tone Deaf Leopard |
Subject: Lyr Add: GOODBYE OLD PAL (Bill Monroe) From: Mark Clark Date: 21 Apr 15 - 06:55 PM Here is a song that's mentioned by name in a couple of threads but the lyrics have never been added… so here goes. My friend and former Blue Grass Boy, Bob Black, says it's the best song he's ever heard about a dead horse. GOODBYE OLD PAL by Bill Monroe Along about roundup time in Texas way out west, I lost a friend and a pal, boys, and laid him down to rest, I wept and mourned o'er his grave, to me, boys, it was sad, For I knew down beneath that mound lay the best pal I ever had. Yo-de-lay-ee-ay de-lay-ee-o de-lay-ee. My best pal was my old paint horse and now he's gone to rest, I laid him down beneath that mound in Texas way out west, Where the cactus blooms o'er his grave, and the coyotes cry, I know he sleeps in perfect peace beneath that Texas sky. Yo-de-lay-ee-ay de-lay-ee-o de-lay-ee. Dear old pal it breaks my heart to leave you here alone, Now I'm going to ride the range on the Texas roan, But my love for you, old pal, it will linger on, I will always think of you although you're dead and gone. Yo-de-lay-ee-ay de-lay-ee-o de-lay-ee. |
Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: PHJim Date: 21 Apr 15 - 11:53 PM Fred Eaglesmith wrote a song called "I Shot Your Dog": Well, hello, neighbor. I been meaning to talk to you. I been putting it off. It's something I gotta do. I been living with a secret. Been keeping me awake. There's just something I gotta say: I shot your dog. He was on my property. I thought he was a coyote, on the run. I been missing some chickens, so I pulled the trigger. I feel so bad 'bout what I done. He also wrote one called "He's A Good Dog" which, although the dog is alive, he predicts his end: He's a good dog, but one of these days I'm gonna have to drive him into town and have him put away 'Cause he don't hear that good no more and he can't hardly walk But until then I'll look at him and say He's a good dog |
Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: PHJim Date: 10 Aug 15 - 05:34 PM Li'l Andy's song, "I Don't Feel A Thing Anymore" has a verse that goes: My shrink said what I needed to do was cry, So I went to the Cineplex to give it a try. At the end Old Shep was dead A little boy shot him in the head But I felt no teardrop welling in my eye. |
Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: eftifino Date: 11 Aug 15 - 03:23 AM Here are the Beat farmers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhKGTRtgstk |
Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Gallus Moll Date: 11 Aug 15 - 07:11 PM John Eaglesham sang a song about 'Poaching Rhinocer-os-es ---based on a poem originally written (by a medical student?) for the Glasgow Uni student charity magazine as I recall? (well, I'm not actually old enough to recall, but my father used to recite it!) I have the words somewhere- - - - - |
Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Gallus Moll Date: 11 Aug 15 - 07:16 PM Iain Ingram composed a stunning song at the time of the foot and mouth epidemic, and the slaughtering and burning of all the farm animals -- think it is called 'Ill Wind Frae Cumberland' I've not got the words yet, will try to record Iain singing it next time I see him - - - |
Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 12 Aug 15 - 10:00 AM By the end of Froggie Went a-Courting, Mr. Frog, Miss Mouse, and Uncle Rat were all dead, because "They all were swallowed by a Big Black Snake!" Uh-Huh!! Uh-Huh!! You can sing it yourself. Dave Oesterreich |
Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: PHJim Date: 12 Aug 15 - 02:39 PM My friend "Complicity" and Al Kirby and I put it on our CD, Sittin' In The Kitchen. Complicity - Bernie Martin |
Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: PHJim Date: 12 Aug 15 - 02:42 PM Sorry, sometimes words just disappear and I don't know how to edit my posts. This was supposed to say, "My friend Bernie Martin, who passed away a few years ago, wrote this song called "Complicity" and Al Kirby and I. . ." |
Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: PHJim Date: 12 Aug 15 - 02:48 PM The minor guitar lick that I play at the start of the song is a close approximation of one that I learned in the early sixties from either an Ian & Sylvia or Joan Baez album. I can't recall the song or the record or even the artist, but I always liked the lick. |
Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: MGM·Lion Date: 12 Aug 15 - 02:49 PM Worms & ducks, as well as the person apostrophised, die in the course of On Ilkley Moor Baht At. ≈M≈ |
Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 13 Aug 15 - 09:33 AM In one of the Buckeye Jim songs, "Way down yonder, not very far off A bluejay died of the whooping cough
Buckeye Jim, ya can't go
He whooped so hard with the whooping cough, |
Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Gallus Moll Date: 16 Aug 15 - 04:47 PM Iain Ingram's "Ill Wind Frae Cumberland" chorus: It's an ill wind blawn frae Cumberland That is sweepin' o'er the Solway sand Wi' disease and devastation fanned aroon' Noo the pyres burn and fortunes fa' The length and breadth o' Gallowa And anger bides in countryside and toon verse 1 See the fairmer in ahint his gate Broken doon in sic a state While government debate Whit should be done A' his fields and his pastures bare O' the kye and yowes he'd grazing there Noo the victims o' a scare And the slaughtering gun chorus: It's an ill wind --- - - verse 2 There's nae words o' hope can ease the pain Or mak him want tae stairt again When a' a lifetime's work in flames You see Aye it's hard enough tae mak it pey But when ye ken nae ither way Whit is lost and gaun this day Has brought misery chorus: It's an ill wind ------ IAIN'S NOTES The first case of foot and mouth disease was diagnosed in February 2001 at an abattoir in Essex. The source was traced to a farm in Northumberland The disease spread rapidly throughout Britain - with Cumbria being the worst affected. In Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway was one of the first areas to be hit. I've written the song from a Scottish perspective, after watching an old farmer break down on television as he explained to a reporter how he had lost everything. _________________________________________________ I have a video recording of Iain singing this but no idea how to share it -- - (couldn't manage to upload his printed version of the song, had to type it out myself into the box!) |
Subject: Lyr Add: THREE DRUNK NEWTS (Barnes & Barnes) From: Jim Dixon Date: 21 May 21 - 02:16 PM Blackcat2 mentioned this song back on 23 Dec 99, in a different thread: Animal Songs. Since this song involves the death of the animals, I thought it more appropriate to post the lyrics here. THREE DRUNK NEWTS As recorded by Barnes & Barnes on “Voobaha” (1980) (Tune: Three Blind Mice) Three drunk newts, three drunk newts. See how they crawl; see how they crawl, Creeping down your legs and feet, Looking for a snack to eat. They can’t even keep the beat, Three drunk newts, three drunk newts. Three stoned newts, three stoned newts, High as kites, yes, high as kites, They rumble in the parking lot. They scored a lid of seedless pot Really hope they don’t get caught, Three stoned newts, three stoned newts. Three wild newts, three wild newts, Causing a scene, they’re rowdy and mean. They licky sticky loopy juice. They’re off to punish and abuse. Look out, ‘cause they’re on the loose: Three wild newts, three wild newts. Look at their tails; aren’t they pretty? Look at their tails; itty-bitty. Wish I had a tail, But I don’t. [spoken] Let me tell you a tale about a trio of hot newts on parade. They had Saturday newt fever, and they was burning. They got a little too hot, dig? Three dead newts, three dead newts, See how they rot, see how they rot, Left out in the noonday sun, Dry and stiff and too well done. That’s the end of their newt fun, Three dead newts, three dead newts, Three dead newts. [spoken] They’re gone now, Lived life too hard. Yeah, g’bye, newts. G’bye. Sleep good. Pleasant dreams. Yeah! |
Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: keberoxu Date: 21 May 21 - 03:16 PM That's hilarious, Jim Dixon. |
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