Music cover for The Little Wee Dog

Music cover for The Little Wee Dog, as sung in La Belle Sauvage (a burlesque on the subject of Pocahontas) by Mr A W Young at the St James's Theatre, London, with words and music by Septimus Winner (1827-1902) and additional verses (for the encore) by Barton Hill. A plump man is depicted in grey-green Elizabethan costume, with an enormous white ruff and wide-brimmed hat, smoking a long churchwarden pipe. His hair and beard are bright yellow in colour. The refrain of the song goes as follows:~~Oh where, and oh where, is my leetel wee dog?~~Oh where! oh where can he be?~~Mit his ears cut short and his tail cut long, ~~Oh where, oh where is he?~~By the end of the song it becomes clear that the owner has eaten his dog, and his skin has been turned into gloves

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