Country Songs That Mention Dogs
Dana Carpender
point where it ended up in the famous last verse of The Ultimate Country
Song "You Never Even Call Me By My Name." This morning I found myself
trying to think of country songs that mention dogs at all, much less
dead ones, and maybe I'm feeling slow, but I'm not coming up with that
many.
There was a song a couple years back where a dog died; it started "I was
young, he was old, we were both the same age." And there was "Feed
Jake," a song that never fails to make me cry, with a chorus that goes:
Now I lay me down to sleep...
I pray the Lord my soul to keep...
If I die before I wake... feed Jake...
He's been a good dog...
My best friend right through it all...
If I die before I wake...feed Jake...
There was a song where a guy said he felt like a dog in the bed of a
pickup that was driving crazy.
But that's about as many as I can remember. Anyone remember more
country songs about dogs? Or is the stereotype hollow?
Dana
Bill Turlock
"Me and you and a dog named Boo"?
HVS
> But that's about as many as I can remember. Anyone remember
> more country songs about dogs? Or is the stereotype hollow?
Old Shep is probably the grand-daddy of them all.
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Kim
>
> But that's about as many as I can remember. Anyone remember more
> country songs about dogs? Or is the stereotype hollow?
http://www.cmhrecords.com/web/page.asp?pgs=product&catid=3&id=151
I can think of only two that aren't on this page.
"Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine"
"Dogs and Diamonds"
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John Dean
>
> But that's about as many as I can remember. Anyone remember more
> country songs about dogs? Or is the stereotype hollow?
>
Billy Connolly's version of D.I.V.O.R.C.E.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gary.hart/lyricsc/connolly.html
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John "nuthin but a hound dog" Dean
Oxford
B.Lanc
Dana Carpender wrote:
> There's a standing joke about country songs mentioning dead dogs, to the
> point where it ended up in the famous last verse of The Ultimate Country
> Song "You Never Even Call Me By My Name." This morning I found myself
> trying to think of country songs that mention dogs at all, much less
> dead ones, and maybe I'm feeling slow, but I'm not coming up with that
> many.
>
>
> But that's about as many as I can remember. Anyone remember more
> country songs about dogs? Or is the stereotype hollow?
>
Are you talking about the Steve Goodman song? Because that one doesn't
mention dogs that I remember. Mamas, pickup trucks, trains, getting
drunk, but no dogs.
Ahh, here it is:
http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/y/youneverevencalledmebymyname.shtml
Still a great song, though.
B. "Hello, hello" Lanc
Dana Carpender
John Dean wrote:
> Dana Carpender wrote:
>
>>But that's about as many as I can remember. Anyone remember more
>>country songs about dogs? Or is the stereotype hollow?
>>
>
>
> Billy Connolly's version of D.I.V.O.R.C.E.
>
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gary.hart/lyricsc/connolly.html
>
>
Which reminds me -- Rub-a-Dubbin' by Ken Mellons mentions his dog:
I could tell they were nervous
When they saw me at the service
And the preacher asked
If anyone had anything to say
When they said "I do"
I jumped up and said "thank you"
'Cause my alimony just stopped today
(Chorus)
He's rub-a-dubbin' in my tub
He's sleepin' in my bed
He's watchin' my TV
He's scratchin' my dog's head
He thinks he's got H-E-R right down to a "T"
But he's just the next ex
Of my ol' used to be
Every morning he gets up
And fires up my ol' truck
He used to work one job
Thanks to her, now he's got two
I'll even let him believe that he stole her from me
But one day I'm gonna send him an I.O.U
(Repeat chorus twice)
He's just the next ex
Of my ol' used to be
Great song, BTW.
Dana
Dana Carpender
B.Lanc wrote:
And I have a tape kicking around somewhere of Goodman singing it with a
last verse that goes:
"Ever since the dog died and mama went to prison
Things 'round this old farm just ain't been the same.
And you know, when Mom broke out last Christmas
She drove the goddamned getaway laundry truck into a train."
Don't know which version is the original.
Dana
B.Lanc
I've only heard the David Allen Coe version. I also didn't know that
John Prine may have co-written it. Your version is here:
http://www.jpshrine.org/lyrics/songs/younevercallmeby.html
B. Lanc
Nostradamus
Read the song notes (link at the upper-left of the page). Very cool.
B.Lanc
Wow, I didn't even see that link. Thanks, you made my day.
TedTheCat
> There's a standing joke about country songs mentioning dead dogs, to the
> point where it ended up in the famous last verse of The Ultimate Country
> Song "You Never Even Call Me By My Name." This morning I found myself
> trying to think of country songs that mention dogs at all, much less
> dead ones, and maybe I'm feeling slow, but I'm not coming up with that
> many.
Anyone mention Mr Bojangles?
He spoke through tears of 15 years how his dog and him
traveled about
The dog up and died, he up and died
And after 20 years he still grieves
art...@yahoo.com
That's not country. That's not even Western.
Greg Goss
>There's a standing joke about country songs mentioning dead dogs, to the
>point where it ended up in the famous last verse of The Ultimate Country
>Song "You Never Even Call Me By My Name." This morning I found myself
>trying to think of country songs that mention dogs at all, much less
>dead ones, and maybe I'm feeling slow, but I'm not coming up with that
>many.
>
>There was a song a couple years back where a dog died; it started "I was
>young, he was old, we were both the same age." And there was "Feed
>Jake," a song that never fails to make me cry, with a chorus that goes:
CW McCall mentions his dog Sloane in several songs, including one song
about Sloane.
Elvis called his girlfriend a dog in a famous country song.
--
Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27
B.Lanc
There's also this one:
"That's my house and that's my car
That's my dogs in my backyard"
Why do I know this song, that I heard once about ten years ago, but I
can't remember my anniversary?
bill van
"art...@yahoo.com" <art...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Except for the part where it was written and first recorded by country
and western artist Jerry Jeff Walker. On the bluesy edge of country and
western perhaps, but still.
bill
xho...@gmail.com
> There's a standing joke about country songs mentioning dead dogs, to the
> point where it ended up in the famous last verse of The Ultimate Country
> Song "You Never Even Call Me By My Name."
I thought it was dogs, and dying, not necessarily together.
> This morning I found myself
> trying to think of country songs that mention dogs at all, much less
> dead ones, and maybe I'm feeling slow, but I'm not coming up with that
> many.
>
> There was a song a couple years back where a dog died; it started "I was
> young, he was old, we were both the same age." And there was "Feed
> Jake," a song that never fails to make me cry, with a chorus that goes:
>
> Now I lay me down to sleep...
> I pray the Lord my soul to keep...
> If I die before I wake... feed Jake...
> He's been a good dog...
> My best friend right through it all...
> If I die before I wake...feed Jake...
>
> There was a song where a guy said he felt like a dog in the bed of a
> pickup that was driving crazy.
>
> But that's about as many as I can remember. Anyone remember more
> country songs about dogs? Or is the stereotype hollow?
I think Red Sevine had some in the teddy bear series, I think the dogs
name was something like gettyupango.
Xho
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sinatra
swell
whistling
superman
hamburger stands
technicolor
jukeboxe's
cars w/ fins
marilyn
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ricky nelson
early elvis
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poodle skirts
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truman
segregation
white-wall tires
macarthyism
cubans (cigar)
schwinn bikes
radio flyer
soap box derby's
martini's
dean martin & jerry lewis
john wayne
the drive-in
the twist
lounges
coca-cola
the paper
the circus
Henry Mancini
"Ike"
the Cold War
the "space race"
zippos
money clips
smokey joe
looney tunes
diners
jump ropes
high-waisted pants
live commercials
bomb shelters
wingtips
hoola-hoops
grace kelly
leave it to beaver
milkmen
pool
bowling
sunday afternoon drives
good service
flippin' coins
beat poetry
tops
marbles
capri pants
the midway
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3 real nylons
pointy bras
cheap gas
no one knew the word ecology
made in japan meant cheap
foreign cars were unusual
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red scare
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Dana Carpender
TedTheCat wrote:
Never really thought of that as a country song.
Dana
Dana Carpender
B.Lanc wrote:
'Cause it's one of Toby Keith's better songs? But I think it's only one
dog in his backyard.
Dana
bill van
Dana Carpender <dcar...@kivanospam.net> wrote:
Jerry Jeff Walker, who wrote it, was mainly a C&W guy. But in Texas,
there's a big overlap between C&W and blues, and I think that's where
Bojangles comes from. Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings came from the
same school. More recently, Lucinda Williams has been working that
territory. Sometimes you can't tell where the country stops and the
blues begins.
bill
TedTheCat
I agree with everything you wrote, Bill. I'll have to check out
Lucinda Williams. Delbert McClinton is the country-blues performer
I've heard most. (Trivia bit: Delbert McClinton influenced John
Lennon's harmonica style as heard on Love Me Do).
I find Mr Bojangles to be at least as country as How Much is That
Doggie in the Window which is listed in the URL upstream for country
songs about dogs.
Even those people who don't think of Mr Bojangles as country ought to
agree that it is a really good dead dog song.
Ted ("I'm a victim of life circumstances") the Cat
Mark Steese
news:billvan-211B4C...@news.telus.net:
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band had a hit single version of "Mr. Bojangles,"
and they're country-and-western, too. And there's an excruciatingly bad
version by Jim Stafford, who's also a country-and-western singer, albeit
one known best for his novelty songs ("Spiders and Snakes," "My Girl
Bill,""Wildwood Weed").
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jarred his concentration on the electric chair--
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of lost connections. . . .
bill van
"TedTheCat" <tedth...@aol.com> wrote:
> I'll have to check out Lucinda Williams.
My favorites of her CDs are Lucinda Williams, 1988, and Car Wheels on a
Gravel Road, 1998.
She does a lot of touring. I've seen her live with two different bands,
one in a concert hall and the other in a nightclub, and the show rocked
both times.
bill
Mark Steese
> Dana Carpender <dcar...@kivanospam.net> wrote:
>
>>There's a standing joke about country songs mentioning dead dogs, to the
>>point where it ended up in the famous last verse of The Ultimate Country
>>Song "You Never Even Call Me By My Name." This morning I found myself
>>trying to think of country songs that mention dogs at all, much less
>>dead ones, and maybe I'm feeling slow, but I'm not coming up with that
>>many.
>>
>>There was a song a couple years back where a dog died; it started "I was
>>young, he was old, we were both the same age." And there was "Feed
>>Jake," a song that never fails to make me cry, with a chorus that goes:
>
> CW McCall mentions his dog Sloane in several songs, including one song
> about Sloane.
That's the weirdest rendition of the chorus of "Feed Jake" I've ever seen.
> Elvis called his girlfriend a dog in a famous country song.
That one is actually a rockabilly cover of a rhythm-and-blues number by Big
Mama Thornton. A more countryish variation is the Everly Brothers' "Bird
Dog," but both of those should probably be disqualified for actually being
about people.
harrisan...@yahoo.co.uk
My favorite is "The dogs on fire" by Tim Hawkins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O5cGUs2OM4
Hey little girl don't you get upset
I got some bad news better call the vet oh no
as the flames go higher
oh-oh-oh the dogs on fire
yeah we gotta look on the bright side now
we'll save a lot of money on puppy chow oh yeah
I'm not a liar
oh-oh-oh the dogs on fire
You know that I always thought he was a good little fellow
now run to the store get a bag of marshmellows
that dog cost me about a hundred dollars
now all thats left is a ten cent collar
oh no, I'm starting to perspire
oh-oh the dogs on fire
oh-oh the dogs on fire
oh-oh the dogs on fire
Xho Jingleheimerschmidt
start The Simpsons and Jethro Tull, antirespectively.
Brettster
https://youtu.be/7d4cDMiUarA
I have always disliked the reference he makes about how he
"kicked him when he was bad."
BillT...@billturlock.com
died in 1985
Lesmond
toe.
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But hold her down with soggy clothes and breeze blocks
Charles Bishop
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 16:28:27 -0700, BillT...@BillTurlock.com wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 15:10:38 -0700 (PDT), Brettster
> ><brett...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>Neil Young has a very countryish song about his dog called "Old King":
> >
> >>https://youtu.be/7d4cDMiUarA
> >>>I have always disliked the reference he makes about how he
> >>"kicked him when he was bad."
> >
> >I once kicked my first dog and I'm still ashamed that I did. He
> >died in 1985
>
> I tried to kick my dog once, missed, kicked a chair instead and broke my
> toe.
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chalres