Clancy’s Song

This is a song about pet loss and how the death of an animal companion can impact us.

Words and Music By Tom Dalton
© 1999 Tom Dalton

You’ve been our baby now for 16 years
It’s so hard for us to let you go
This place won’t be the same without you here
We’ll miss you more than you will know

I can’t believe how the time slipped by
It seems like yesterday when we first met
Back there in Nashville at that old yard sale
We were both much younger then

Bridge 1
And I’ll remember how you layed by my pillow
With your head curled into my neck
And all those times you were there right beside us
You were more than just a four-legged friend

Chorus
You’re our baby Clanc and we’ll always see
your sad, sweet, wonderful face
You’re our baby Clanc for eternity;
no one could ever take your place

I guess I thought this day would never come
And that you’d always be here by our side
But I can feel your body workin’ so hard
It’s a struggle just stayin’ alive

Bridge 2
I hate to say it but it’s better this way
‘Cause I don’t want you to feel any pain
Just let me hold you while you go to sleep
I wish that there was some other way

And I’ll remember how you woke us each morning
With your paw so soft on my face
And all those times that you layed there beside us
Now there’s only an empty space

(Chorus)