Name: The Honest Dog
Duration: P00H04M02S
Description: This song originated as a poem written by Scottish Jacobite poet William Hamilton of Bangour (1704 - 54) called “Inscription on a Dog”. Seán added the melody and created a refrain from the first two lines.

The Honest Dog

from Half Light by Seán Gray & Andrew Finn Magill

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This song originated as a poem written by Scottish Jacobite poet William Hamilton of Bangour (1704 - 54) called “Inscription on a Dog”. Seán added the melody and created a refrain from the first two lines.

lyrics

I’m calm though not mean, courageous without rage,
Serious not dull, without thinking sage; I’m calm though not mean.

I’m pleased at the lot that nature has assigned,
I snarl as I list, and freely bark my mind,
As churchman wrangle not with jarring spite,
Nor statesman-like caressing whom I bite.

I view all canine kind with equal eyes,
I dread no mastiff, and no cur despise.
I’m true from the first, and faithful to the end,
I balk no mistress, forsake no friend.

My days and nights one equal tenor keep,
Fast but to eat, and only wake to sleep.
Thus stealing along life I live incog.,
A very plain and downright honest dog.

credits

from Half Light, released July 10, 2020
Andrew Finn Magill: violins/fiddles
www.andrewfinnmagill.com

Seán Gray: electric guitar, acoustic guitar, synth bass, programming,
www.seangraymusic.com

Mike Vass: recording and mixing engineer
www.mikevass.com

Chris Waite: mastering engineer
masteredbychriswaite.com

Hamish MacLeod: Photography
hamishmacleod.net

Anna Colliton: graphic design
annacollitonvisuals.com

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Andrew Finn Magill Asheville, North Carolina

For twenty years violinist/fiddler and composer Andrew Finn Magill has been pursuing parallel careers in traditional Irish music, Brazilian choro, jazz and American fiddle and he has performed with everyone from grammy-nominees Trio Brasileiro to Rising Appalachia. ... more

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