I helped our guy across the Rainbow Bridge with this one

I’m Chris’s son, Danny. I remember our first dog, and our second, and my dog now. The tunes/songs keep us company through the years. Each of those dogs taught me how to love properly and still do x

@@MrTheBiscuit Yep. Thanks.

Some of them might be able. 'Today's youth' are what we've got, in any case. They are part of our society and have potential. Meanwhile, the schools are desperate for music teachers, I hear.

Likely a combination of all of those things, in addition to the string tuning (low to high) of Bb-F-C-G. Chris, if you're reading this, please add your tuppence for Sky Lukewalker. Especially with such a name.

@@EdiDrums maybe it's a viola??

There may well be a change in tuning as ԐԀɪ DԆŮМS says (I'm no expert, so can't say) but I think (from the odd close-up) that the instrument is a fiddle, rather than a violin. The difference is in the bridge - a fiddle-bridge is almost flat, so that the bow plays at least two and often three strings at the same time (occasionally all four) - a violin-bridge is a curve, so it's easier to play one string at a time, and almost impossible to play four. i.pinimg.com/originals/8e/18/42/8e18425e6900d7f2f873c360966c9b06.jpg

@@chriswhitham2140 Thanks. Something I've never known before, that there is a difference between a fiddle and a violin.

@@timelliot9110 Yeah. I've been around for seventy years but I only learned this a couple of years ago.

Flook also do an incredible version. I'd say this particular version owes some tribute to flook

bodhran boss

Yup- it is

These lyrics i found on the mainlynorfolk.info website This is June Tabor's version but it's 90% similar to this lovely version :) Oh I've got a dog and a good dog too And I keeps it in my keeping, For to catch those hares that run by night While the gamekeepers lie a-sleeping. My dog and me went out one night For to learn some education. Up jumped a hare and away she runs, Right into some large plantation. She had not gone so very far Before something stopped her running. Oh Aunt! Oh Aunt! she loudly cried, Stop a minute, your Uncle's coming! Oh I took out my little penknife And quickly I did paunch her. She turned out one of the female kind. How glad am I I caught her. I picks her up and I smooth her down And I puts her in my keeping. I says to my dog, it's time to be gone While the gamekeepers lie a-sleeping. Away me and my dog did go, Back into the town. We took that hare to a labouring man And we sold it for a crown. We went into some public house And there we got quite mellow, For we spent that crown and another one too Don't you think I am a good-hearted fellow? (repeat first verse)