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Thread #12687   Message #101244
Posted By: Mike Robertson
01-Aug-99 - 03:18 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Black Dog Blues
Subject: Lyr Add: BLACK DOG BLUES (Ian Anderson)
Possibly not exactly what you were looking for as this version has been converted into "English" English, probably by the singer I have it from (Ian Anderson, on the Hot Vultures LP "Up The Line"). But FWIW here's how he sings it (you can always convert it back again!):

(Chorus)

Well now you call me a dog when I'm gone
Your black dog when I'm gone
But it's when I come home with that twenty pound note
It's honey where you been so long

Well now I've been all over this country
From the mountains to the sea
But it's every place that I hang up my hat
Well it's home sweet home to me

Well now Daddy taught me to gamble
He showed me how to play
Well he taught me to bet all of my money
On the Ace, the Jack the Deuce and the Trey

So I can roll my dice in Farnham
I can play my cards in Staines
But it's when I find that my last money's gone
Well I can hop on that fast freight train

Well they hear that train 'cos it's coming
Well it's hauling my body along
Well it's taking me to the graveyard
Where the grave will be my home

-mike-