“O Where O Where Has My Little Dog Gone”

Description

"Oh where Oh where is my little dog gone, Oh where Oh where can he be?..." The singer describes the dog, then his tastes... lager beer, the dog, and of course sausage -- but "Dey makes um mit dog und dey makes em mit horse, I guess dey makes em mit he."

Supplemental text

O Where O Where Has My Little Dog Gone
  Complete text(s)

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From sheet music published 1864 by Septimus Winner.
Title page inscribed
      To E. F. Dixey Esq.
            DER
       DEITCHER'S DOG
        Comic Ballad
             BY
         SEP. WINNER.

Oh where, O where ish mine little dog gone;
Oh where, Oh where can he be.
His ears cut short und his tail cut long:
Oh where, Oh where ish he.

CHORUS
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   2
I loves mine lager 'tish very goot beer,
Oh where, Oh where can he be.
But mit no money I cannot drink here.
Oh where, Oh where ish he.

   3
Across the ocean in Garmanie
Oh where, Oh where can he be.
Der deitchers dog ish der best companie
Oh where, Oh where ish he.

   4
Un sasage ish good, bolonie of course
Oh where, Oh where can he be.
Dey makes um mit dog und dey makes em mit horse,
I guess de makes em mit he.

Notes

Septimus Winner for some reason put his own name on this piece and used the pseudonym Alice Hawthorne for his other hits ("Listen to the Mocking Bird" and "Whispering Hope"). Using the tune of the German song "Lauterbach," ("Zu Lauterbach"; "Zu Lauterbach Hab' Ich Mein Strumpf Verloren"; first published 1847), he created this ode (?) to an unfortunate dog.

"Deitcher" is, I believe, dialect for "German" ("Deutscher"). - RBW

Same tune

• The Jackarse Eat It on the Way (Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 296-297)

Cross references

• cf. "Dunderbeck" (theme)

Recordings

• Al Hopkins & his Buckle Busters, "Where Has My Little Dog Gone" (Brunswick 187/Vocalion 5183 [as the Hill Billies], 1927)

References

1. RJackson-19CPop, pp. 57-60, "Der Deitcher's Dog" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. Spaeth-ReadWeep, p. 29 (fragments filed under "The Orphan Boys")
3. Opie-Oxford2 139, "Oh where, oh where has my little dog gone?" (2 texts)
4. Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #873, p. 326, "(Oh where, oh where has my little dog gone?)"
5. Fuld-WFM, p. 406, "Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone (Zu Lauterbach)"
6. DT, LITTLDOG*
7. ST RJ19057 (Full)
8. BI, RJ19057