Dead animal songs

Subject: RE: Dead animal songs
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 07:39 PM

King Herod's cock was dead?

Subject: RE: Dead animal songs
From: LadyJean
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 05:26 PM

I've always enjoyed "The Body In the Bag", perhaps because the cat isn't really dead.
"The Boar's Head Carol" would work for Christmas. So, I suppose would, "King Herod and the Cock".

Subject: RE: Dead animal songs
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 04:44 PM

The Wolfhound (DT or Mudcat Songbook)

Dead Dog Cider from Charley Noble-- maybe someone has a link to this sound file to offer?

Puff the Magic Dragon, if you add a verse. :~) Go ahead. You know you want to.

~S~

Subject: Lyr Add: TOWSER JENKINS
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 04:39 PM

"...Once I had a yaller dog, his name was Towser Jenkins.
The butcher cut his tail off with a cleaver...
Towser had his trademark on every cat in town,
And when he spotted one, he'd never leave her.

He wore his legs off stumpy, chasin' milk carts 'round the country.
Had bunions on his knees from jumpin' ditches.
Had all the hair wore off his ribs
From chasin' cats around the corn cribs...
But empty is the doghouse, Towsers poisoned.

No more he'll look for liver down beside the Suwanee River,
No more will boys baptize him in the sewer..
No more homeward will he wail, with ten cans tied to his tail..
For empty is the doghouse...Towser's poisoned."

...from a Folk Legacy album by Harry Tufts. (I hope that right!)

Subject: RE: Dead animal songs
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 04:19 PM

A couple of Music Hall songs:

Jeerusalem's Dead! (Donkey)

Down the Road (Horse)


LFF

Subject: RE: Dead animal songs
From: GUEST,Lutenist
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 03:52 PM

Jake Thackray's wonderful 'Tortoise'.

Subject: RE: Dead animal songs
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 03:29 PM

you can start with searching Digitrad for the keywords @deadcat @deaddog and @deadbaby.

Subject: RE: Dead animal songs
From: Seaking
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 03:22 PM

Bob Eaglesham's 'Tortoise song' The tortoise gets it in the last verse - "I made him into plectrums, I knew this plectrum well"

Subject: RE: Dead animal songs
From: Candyman(inactive)
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 03:05 PM

"Old Blue" is another one about a dog that died.

Subject: RE: Dead animal songs
From: Candyman(inactive)
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 03:02 PM

The old grey goose is dead in "Go Tell Aunt Rhody."

Subject: RE: Dead animal songs
From: Blackcatter
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 02:58 PM

check out this thread:

Animal Songs

It has some more dead animal songs including my favoirite Nell Flaherty's Drake. (at the time I was Blackcat2)

Subject: RE: Dead animal songs
From: alanabit
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 02:53 PM

The roast beef of England....? (It's about a dead animal).

Subject: RE: Dead animal songs
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 02:53 PM

There's an old country song called "Old Shep" that's about a faithful hunting dog going off to its final reward. I'm not sure of the original author, but it was covered by a lot of Nashville stars in the 50s and 60s.
Rev

Subject: RE: Dead animal songs
From: Blackcatter
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 02:53 PM

I'm Looking Over My Dead Dog Rover.
The Unicorn Song (Shel Silverstein)
Puff The Magic Dragon (can be interpreted that way)


There's more too - I know there was a thread about this sometime.

Subject: RE: Dead animal songs
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 02:39 PM

Oh, hey, there are a number of dead animal songs on the "D" page of the Digital Tradition. Dead Dog Scrumpy is particularly inspiring. Emma, do you happen to have the lyrics to "I Put My Dog in the Microwave"?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Dead animal songs
From: Emma B
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 01:08 PM

Pete Grassby's 'wonderful?' rendition of "I Put My Dog in the Microwave!" as heard in many late nite sessions

Subject: Lyr Add: DEAD PUPPIES
From: JennyO
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 12:33 PM

Here you go, from the Digitrad + a verse that my friend Rhymin' Simon sings - I think there are other verses around too:

DEAD PUPPIES

D....A........Bm....F#m
////-////-----////-////
Dead puppies, dead puppies

G....A.......Bm....F#m
////-////----////-////
Dead puppies aren't much fun.


Verses: They don't come, when you call
They don't chase no squirrels at all
Dead puppies aren't much fun

Mom said puppies' days are through
Then she chunked him in the stew
Dead puppies aren't much fun

Puppy died late last fall
He's still rotting in the hall
Dead puppies aren't much fun

////=one measure in 4/4...again, the verse and chorus
are the same (musically)

Here's Simon's verse, which he sings first:

When you pick them up they sag
When you go for walks they drag
Dead puppies aren't much fun.

Jenny

Subject: RE: Dead animal songs
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 12:31 PM

They usually HUM abit after a couple of days in the sun!
Quack!

Subject: RE: Dead animal songs
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 12:29 PM

It's been an awful long time since I heard a dead animal sing; must be why I can't remember any titles! :~)

~S~

Subject: RE: Dead animal songs
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 12:22 PM

A friend of mine, Jim Jarratt, wrote one called Squashed Hedgehogs, about trips out in the car with young children.

He also is responsible for one of ghost stories: Brigantian Whispers

Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Dead animal songs
From: GUEST,celtaddict
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 12:18 PM

Thanks, Joe, I did try "Dead animal songs" and unearthed no threads.

Subject: RE: Dead animal songs
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 12:12 PM

Hi, Celtaddict - for your pleasure, we have a wide and wonderful collection of possum songs. Oh, and don't forget our road kill thread.
Enjoy.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: Dead animal songs
From: GUEST,celtaddict
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 11:58 AM

For a dear and demented nephew, I am collecting a set of dead animal songs.
He's Nobody's Moggy Now
Little Gomez
Dead Skunk (in the Middle of the Road)
Dead Horse Shanty
Fishing for Chickens
Any other goodies to add? (With where I can find them?)