upped and...

[Tom Kysilko]

"Mr. Bojangles," (c) by JJ Walker in 1967, and covered by Bob Dylan, the
Dirt Band, everyone and their uncle.  A Web site claiming to be quoting the
liner notes on Walker's album has it:
"His dog up and died, he up and died."
--Tom Kysilko

At 7/13/2004 04:49 PM -0500, Jim Parish wrote:
>Orin Hargraves wrote:
> > Another pop. cult. cite is in the 1970s song "Mr. Bojangles," which I
> haven't
> > got a recording of, but in my head the lyric is:
> >
> > The dog up and died,
> > he up and died.
>
>Your memory is correct. (I do have a recording; it's by the Nitty Gritty
>Dirt Band.)


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