Album: Since Time Immoral – Artist: The Kipper Family

Well one morning last autumn I was walking my dogs
When the Duke of Wellington we did meet.
Well Bonzo and Rover, they slobbered him all over,
While Dido nearly knocked him off his feet.
Well there was….
Dido, Fido, Bonzo and Rex
Rover and Lassie and Spot
There was Butch, there was Candy
There was Patch and there was Sandy
These were the dogs what I had got.

Well don’t worry sir I said,
He won’t hurt you that’s just
His way of saying he like you a lot.
But he took my little dog, and he kicked him in the
bog
And said that’s my way of showing I do not.
There was…..

Now the next dog being old, he was a trifle deaf
He couldn’t hear a single word I said.
And so when I told him sit, he made an awful mess.
When I cleaned it up I shot the bugger dead.
That still left….

Now the next dog being daft, and not all the ticket
He made straight away for the river.
And there he did jump in, but the bugger couldn’t swim

That’s the last we saw of him forever.
There was…..

They chased a rabbit o’er the plain,
but that chased ’em back again
Which put my poor old dogs in quite a stew.
Now it’s just 12 months today
Since I heard the squire say
” I should have them all put down, if I was you.”
There was…..

“Richard” added this:

Lesley. In G but alter to taste:-
G C G
Well one morning last autumn I was walking my dogs
G D G
When the Duke of Wellington we did meet.
G C G
Well Bonzo and Rover, they slobbered him all over
, G D G
While Dido nearly knocked him off his feet.

G
Well there was….
G D C G
Dido, Fido, Bonzo and Rex
D G
Rover and Lassie and Spot
G
There was Butch, there was Candy
G C G
There was Patch and there was Sandy
D G
These were the dogs what I had got.

And so on for the rest of the song. I’ve put the chord changes in where I change. Alternative keys could be D (with G and A), C (with F and G or G7) or use your capo. Enjoy!