Yeah, the words of the wersion I always sung were of a dog called Rex. I first heard this charming little piece from the singing of Diz Disley in the mid `60's when I was about fourteen or fifteen. I thought it'd go down well with the Church ladies Tea party, so I determined to learn it. Diz is best known as a great Jazz guitarist - probably the best exponent of the style of Django since Django and from the mid seventies until just a few years ago he regularly accompanied Stephan Graphelli. Diz called this song `The Romance of Rex' and it used to be a regular feature of his club act but he was a mean sod and never let anyone else have the words, so I sneaked one of the old origional cassette recorders (1965 vintage) into the folk club one night and pirated him.Unfortunately, his drunken mumblings were sometimes too incoherent to transcribe so I've always been two half verses short and for thirty years I've combined the remaining (odd) half verses together to make nine tenths of a song. Now I've got the whole song at last thanks to you guys but I dont suppose no bugger else wants to hear it. I last heard Diz at our local folk club last Summer and he's as brilliant as ever but I think he's forgotten all about Rex. I shan't tell him the words!!

Cheers pals!

Glenn Cannon glenncan@glenncan.freeserve.co.uk