Irish 'Dog' Songs

Subject: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: Mick Lowe
Date: 17 Mar 99 - 05:39 AM

Just a little nonesense for this gloriously sunny St Patrick's Day (well it is here in the UK)...
But as I sat here looking at the number of requests I have for the Wild Rover I suddenly started thinking of other Irish "Doggie" songs and came up with
The Irish Rover (of course)
The "dog" down in the valley-0
Will you come to the bow-wow-er
and Will you go Lassie go
Any more offers?
Have a great St Pat's Day
Mick

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: AndyG
Date: 17 Mar 99 - 06:34 AM

Erm...
The Doggy Doggy Dew ?

AndyG
and yes it's a gloriously sunny StP's in the SE of the England too.

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: SlowAlan
Date: 17 Mar 99 - 07:24 AM

The March of the King of leash....

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: SteveF (inactive)
Date: 17 Mar 99 - 08:00 AM

Scottie the Brave?

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: AndyG
Date: 17 Mar 99 - 08:26 AM

More dogs (from the database):

WHERE THE RIVER SHANNON FLOWS
There's a pretty SPOT in Ireland

TULLOCHGORUM (2)
May peace and plenty be his lot, unstain'd by any vicious SPOT

AndyG

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: Liam's Brother
Date: 17 Mar 99 - 09:43 AM

...and on the (not terribly) serious side, there's always Master McGrath and The Hills of Granemore.

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: Sandy Tucker
Date: 17 Mar 99 - 02:48 PM

Well, I suppose the luck of the Irish is smiling on us. The weather is sunny and beautiful in Mississippi, too!

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: alison
Date: 17 Mar 99 - 09:00 PM

Hi,

Can't resist....

Back home in Derry......

60 rebels today bound for Botany Bay,
How many will reach their retriever.

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: Big Mick
Date: 19 Mar 99 - 01:17 PM

"The Ould Orange Pooch"
"The Bark through Tara's Hall"

Bad, Mick, very bad.......

Mick

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: Animaterra
Date: 19 Mar 99 - 01:22 PM

Gypsy Rover
Collie Malone

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: Wolfgang
Date: 19 Mar 99 - 01:25 PM

not traditional Irish, I know, but:
With dog on our side

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 20 Mar 99 - 02:23 AM

" Star of the County Pound"

"The Long Black Tail"

" Friskies in the Jar"

Sorry I stayed away from this thread. I thought you guys were serious.

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: Martin _Ryan
Date: 20 Mar 99 - 07:00 AM

I used to hear a dog-song with the chorus:

"Champion, he was a dandy
Till Murphy, the dirty old sod,
Came along with his black-and-tan terrier
- And he murdered me twenty pound dog!" Regards

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: Troll
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 12:38 AM

Roddy McCollie

Kevin Barky

She woofed thru the fair

troll

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: georgeward
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 03:02 AM

Come out You Black & Tans (colloquial in parts of the US for bloodhounds)

The Beagle of Aughrim

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 04:19 PM

Here are a bunch, from shall we say, from "the general terrier" take a pekinese,... Henry Barkin', whack fol the doggy-o, the collie from coolbaun, puppy's green shamrock shore, down by the (st.) bernard's side, eileen a roof!, the doggy dens o' yarrow, must I go bound, dublin bay, spencer the rover, young breed o'malamute, yiper of Dundee, call for me dog, little doberman, pug-of-punch, spaniel hill, dalmation once again, the flanks of newfoundland,

I ought to follow this barrage with a note of appology, but I'm sure you all could give me some pointers... its schnauzer never, chow!

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: Troll
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 05:03 PM

A goodly litter, TTR. Whelp, I've gotta go fill in a poodle before supper. I can't be dacshund around after dark out in the yard.

troll

Hey! He started it! Well, he did!

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 17 Mar 01 - 12:34 PM

One of my favorite goofy threads. Happy St Pat's! Now beat "Star of the County Pound" if you can!

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: MARINER
Date: 17 Mar 01 - 01:02 PM

"The Bark that once through Tara's Halls", "My Bonnie Bark". Goodbye old Shep of Mine" And St. Pat is certainly not smiling on Ireland to day. It's pouring rain, blowing a gale, freezing cold and all parades are called off (F'N'M scare).I live in the South East and the nearest Paddy's Day parade to me is Bermimgham!

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: MARINER
Date: 17 Mar 01 - 01:05 PM

Err, that should read Birmingham!

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 17 Mar 01 - 01:17 PM

Then there's that heart-wrenching song of exile, The Old Dog Road. And that heroic ballad, Dog Save Ireland Said the Heroes. While on the other side of the argument, there's The Leash my Father wore, and Doggies lie down

And Dirty Old Hound surely counts as Irish enough by now as well. As does A Christmas Hairy Tail of New York.

Have a good St Pat's Mick and the rest of you. I'm just back from a few days in Ireland, and there's no public festivities this year, with the foot and mouth. It's on a war footing, you have to struggle over disinfected mats or foam matting to get into a pub or a church - even if you're carrying a coffin, which was why I was there.

Still there'll be private celebrations, and they are the ones that count. And I'm off the the Lion in Eastwick in Hertfordshire in a couple of hours, to pay my respects.

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 17 Mar 01 - 02:34 PM

McGrath, "The Leash my Father Wore" has got to take the prize this year.

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: Art Thieme
Date: 18 Mar 01 - 02:05 PM

Didn't John McCormack sing O'Sullivan's "Sonata Bitch".

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Mar 01 - 06:19 PM

The Merry Black dog aka Potty on the Railway

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: GUEST,LynnT
Date: 19 Mar 01 - 04:46 PM

And there's always that line from "Whiskey in the Jar":

"Stand on your liver for I am a Gold Retriever"

Lynn

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: GUEST,R. Harold Schuller
Date: 19 Mar 01 - 11:29 PM

Hello, i am an author of an adventure series and my present book has a co-pilot who is Irish and who hangs out with a dog who helps aboard the plane and goes out to pubs with him. dog is super smart and is attitude city. I need the lyrics for a fwe irish Dogs songs, if they are about a dog that drinks, even better. I have a hicupping hound in my book who needs a song or two. Me fither's mither used to sing a lot of the songs from the auld sod but I don't remember them. Thanks Harold

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: GUEST,R. Harold Schuller
Date: 19 Mar 01 - 11:39 PM

Hello again, I am not used to this media. Can someone put in my e-mail [e-mail] a few lyrics about a dog , from Ireland? The funnier and goofier and drunker the dog, the better. Thanks, Harold

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 20 Mar 01 - 07:16 AM

The Queen of Connemara (she's that bounding bark of mine)

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 20 Mar 01 - 08:05 AM

And of course (duh) how could I have forgotten - Dalmation Once Again.

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: Mrrzy
Date: 20 Mar 01 - 09:25 AM

Ummm - aren't black&tans black & tan hounds rather than bloodhounds? But I do see the galloping pack every time I hear Come out ye black & tans...Who let these particular dogs out, anyway?

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 02:38 PM

Yes, its BACK! The Irish Dog Songs thread! What quantities of Guinness inspired it? To all ye Bold Retrievers...Happy St Patrick's Day!

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: MartinRyan
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 03:52 PM

"All for me dog, me jolly, jolly dog.."
"The Bark in the clear air"

Regards

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 08:25 PM

Still nothing beats " Star of the County Pound"!

But seriously, there must be a "lurcher" song. You know those incredible hunting dogs that poachers used to favor. One of my old song buddies now in Bristol (UK) has a small pack of them. They love to run down rabbits!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: Goose Gander
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 10:02 PM

"The Hound that Shakes the Barley"

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: Brían
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 11:40 PM

When I was a wee pup and easy led astray
It's before I would work, I would rather watch the telly
It's before I would work, I would rather watch the telly
Watching Lassie by the flanks of Red Rover

By the flanks of Red Rover by my telly I sat down
Dad pulled out the rabbit ears the station for to tune
And when the show was over we all broke down and cried
"Oh Lassie, darling Lassie, never leave me"

Timmy took out his pocket knife and it was long and sharp
And he plunged it through (Oh I'm too much of a dog lover. I can't do it)!
And he let the credits roll for Red Rover

Brían

Subject: RE: Irish 'Dog' Songs
From: MartinRyan
Date: 12 Mar 05 - 07:38 AM

"The Crossbred Spaniel - Bill"

Regards