Another winner! Beautiful lyric and beautiful performance. Although, maybe contrary to the message of the lyric, I feel as though the lesson of the Chaplin film is good fortune = a faithful bulldog. 🐶
The videos are always odd, because I search around for any public domain stuff that somehow relates to the song – sometimes you get an uncanny match, other times something looser. In this case, I like how you can read it partly as karma (he's kind to his dog and his dog returns the favour), but also as blatant cheating to get ahead (the agonised look on his face as he slips the 'lucky' horseshoe into the glove). His facial expressions still make me laugh over a century later.
As for the beautiful performance, totally agree – wish I could take credit for that part!
Another winner! Beautiful lyric and beautiful performance. Although, maybe contrary to the message of the lyric, I feel as though the lesson of the Chaplin film is good fortune = a faithful bulldog. 🐶
Thanks Mark, that's so great to hear!
The videos are always odd, because I search around for any public domain stuff that somehow relates to the song – sometimes you get an uncanny match, other times something looser. In this case, I like how you can read it partly as karma (he's kind to his dog and his dog returns the favour), but also as blatant cheating to get ahead (the agonised look on his face as he slips the 'lucky' horseshoe into the glove). His facial expressions still make me laugh over a century later.
As for the beautiful performance, totally agree – wish I could take credit for that part!
The film is so sweet, it goes really well with the song.