Your Dog Love My Dog

DESCRIPTION: Allegory about racial conflict: dogs of different colors get along and love one another. "I'm talkin 'bout a coon dog, and I'm talkin' 'bout a rabbit dog." "All them dogs, all them dogs." "You and me, gonna be so happy, sit under the apple tree."
AUTHOR: James Bevel
EARLIEST DATE: 1964 (recording, Nashville Quartet)
LONG DESCRIPTION: Song, in an allegory about racial conflict, points out that dogs of different colors get along and love one another. "I'm talkin 'bout a coon dog, and I'm talkin' 'bout a rabbit dog." "All them dogs, all them dogs." "You and me, gonna be so happy, sit under the apple tree."
KEYWORDS: hate love colors animal dog Black(s) nonballad discrimination
FOUND IN: US(SE)
RECORDINGS:
Nashville Quartet "Your Dog Loves My Dog" (on SingFreeCD)
SNCC Freedom Singers, "Dogs" (on VoicesCiv)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Dog Dog
NOTES [56 words]: In order to raise funds for the movement, civil rights groups like SNCC and CORE took a leaf from traditionally black colleges, and formed singing groups which toured the country, giving concerts that raised money for their organizations.
James Bevel was an influential leader in the African-American civil rights movement in the South. -PJS
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