Black Bob – Dandy Wonder Dog

by Julian Colton

Black Bob wonder dog
Leaps heather, stile, cleuch and burn
Black Bob saves the day.

Appears every week
Black Bob Dandy wonder dog
Comic strip hero.

Lives with Andrew Glenn
On Ettrick Farm, near Selkirk
Bob rounds up the flock.

In the sheep dog trials
This black and white collie dog
Wins cups of silver.

Around Border hills
Bob has many adventures
Saves lambs, thwarts bad men

Teaches the lesson
In life there is wrong and right
Drawn in pen and ink.

Black Bob wonder dog
Leaps heather, stile, cleuch and burn
Black Bob saves the day.

A raging torrent
Man and beast in deep peril
Bob is saviour

This Border idyll
Beneath lurks much dark evil
Bob restores order

A rural policeman
Corrals strays into the pen
Obeys his master

Faithfull collie dog
A life of happy endings
Set in golden past

A time of plenty
Everything in exact place –
Farmer, village, land

Across the seasons
Over bridges, crags and stall
Black Bob guards it all.

Black Bob wonder dog
Leaps heather, stile, cleuch and burn
Black Bob saves the day.