You Gotta Stop Kicking My Dog Around Ink and Watercolor Drawing / Postcard green candle which makes it feel all

which makes it feel all the more like a small modernist sculpture

or the starting point for making a folksy tray

Known affectionately as the "happy wood carver" Copeland was renowned especially for his exceptional use of the grain of southern wood in his carving

The wood on this one is especially lovely

You Gotta Stop Kicking My Dog Around Ink and Watercolor Drawing / Postcard green candle which makes it feel allA little research reveals that "You Gotta Stop Kicking My Dog Around" was written in 1912 by Cy Perkins, with lyrics by Webb M. Oungst, and first recorded by Byron G. Harlan & American Quartet, with many recordings since, including by Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers in 1926 and Bob Dylan in 1967. The quite depressing lyrics tell the story of a man and his hound Jim, who follows him and his friends into town, and everywhere they go they go, the dog