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T:Dixie's Dog
T:The Dog Licence
C:Bernard Wrigley
S:Bernard's website https://bernardwrigley.com/words 
S:includes a recording of him singing it and its origin.
Z:Webmaster
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w:One day not ve-ry long a-go in a patch of pea soup fog I
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w:put my scarf and coat on for a walk out-side wi't' dog The
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w:air was thick you could-n't see a yard or two down't street When
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w:some-thing stopp'd in front of me a pair of police-man's feet
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W:One day not very long ago in a patch of pea soup fog
W:I put my scarf and coat on for a walk outside wi’ t’dog
W:The air was thick, you couldn’t see a yard or two down t’street
W:When something stopped in front of me - a pair of policeman’s feet
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W:There grew from them some trousers, they were dyed in navy blue
W:A helmet, a coat, and a pair of hands, with a notebook in ‘em too
W:I pretends I hasn’t seen him, like, there being so much fog
W:When a thund’rous voice booms out “Now where’s your licence for your dog?”
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W:Well, times were bad and jobs were scarce, I’d had to go on t’dole
W:And all the money I’d scraped together I’d spent on food and coal
W:He knew I had no licence, he was kicking up a fuss
W:He says, “Bring it in tomorrow or you’ll be having your tea with us”
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W:So all next day I sat at home and looked at t’chimbley flue
W:Wond’ring if he’d come around and thinking what to do
W:Then I heard a noise at t’top o’t’road, it sounded like flat feet
W:And I knew it was that copper as he trundled down the street
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W:Well, I hid myself behind the door as he began to knock
W:He’d no idea I were so near I could even smell his socks
W:When he got tired he went away and I brewed me a cup of tea
W:And I thought whatever happened, t’last laugh‘d be on me
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W:So next day two burly rozzers come a-swaggering in the place
W:But I had my licence ready, and a grin all o’er my face
W:He says “Ey up, you were stony broke when I met you in the fog
W:How can you afford a licence?” I says “I’ve sold my bloody dog”

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