Dead animal songs

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.

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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
Go weave and spin, ya can't go
Buckeye Jim"

He whooped so hard with the whooping cough,
He whooped his head and his tail right off!

Buckeye Jim, ya can't go
Go weave and spin, ya can't go
Buckeye Jim"

Dave Oesterreich

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.
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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.