LYRICS
Curious to know
Where your thoughts go
Curious to know
What you know
Believe me
If I could see
The I’s
Through your eyes
Then, again
Does a human
Look like dog or man?
If I could see
What you see
When you look at me
I’ve got four paws
All with claws
Two eyes and a nose
Who knows?
Here goes!
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: C D E / D A E / G A E / A G E
Recording: digital 6-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
LYRICS
The dog days of summer
Are coming to a close
The dog days of summer
You remember those
You know if Fido begs
Tail between legs
There’s nothing you can do
… but let ’em go
Soon those winter nights
Will be getting plenty cold
If calendar told
Another year old
Bring on the three dog night
We’ll be alright
Holding you
The way I do
ABOUT THE SONG
A three dog night is thought to be a phrase originated by Australian Aborigines meaning “a night so cold you will need to take three dogs to bed with you to stay warm”.
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: B E F#
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar
Coversong
Written by Rufus Thomas
Made famous by Rufus Thomas, The Rolling Stones and Aerosmith
A7
Baby, back
Dressed in black
Silver buttons all down her back
High hose, tippy toes
A
She broke the needle and she can sew
D
Walking the dog A
I'm just a walking the dog
E7
If you don't know how to do it
D7 A7
I'll show you how to walk the dog
C'mon now c'mon
I asked her mother for fifteen cents
I see you ever jumped the fence
I jumped so high, touched the skies
Didn't get back 'til a quarter to five
Walking the dog
Tell me Mary, what's your twelve
How does your garden grow
What with silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row
Walking the dog
(repeat 1st verse)
LYRICS
Call it insane
How you can complain
Hard to explain
Your years remain
For every one
I get seven
While you get to run
I’m in heaven
All dogs run with gods
Hope you farewell well
All of my fears
Are in dog years
As mine draws near
Your path is clear
For every one
I get seven
While you get to run
I’m in heaven
All dogs run with gods
Hope you farewell well
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: A D / A E / A D E A
Recording: digital 8-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Piano
From the album Canine Incisors
LYRICS
Somebody spilled my drink
And I’m starting to know
I think
Pause in awe
Guilty paws
No surprise
I can tell by the look in your eyes
Somebody ate my shoe
And I’m starting to think
It’s you
Pause in awe
Guilty paws
No surprise
I can tell by the look in your eyes
Somebody spilled my drink
And I’m starting to know
I think
Somebody drank my drink
And it’s starting to show
I know
Somebody fumbles n’ stumbles
Bet if you could you would mumble
Pause in awe
Guilty paws
No surprise
I can tell by the look in your eyes
LYRICS
I don’t care if you’re an atheist
Or feel you’ve been “God blessed”
Here’s some love
Unnnn… conditional (love, love, love)
Lots more love
Unconditional (love, love, love)
I don’t care if you have bad hair
Or if there is hardly any there
Here’s some love
Unnnn… conditional (love, love, love)
Lots more love
Unconditional (love, love, love)
I don’t care how you politic
If it makes me ill… if it makes me sick
Here’s some love
Unnnn… conditional (love, love, love)
Lots more love
Unconditional (love, love, love)
I don’t care if there’s toy’s in the attic,
Skeletons in the closet,
A sports fanatic,
Or a leakin’ faucet
Here’s some love
Unnnn… conditional (love, love, love)
Lots more love
Unconditional (love, love, love)
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: A A7 / Em G A / A Em G A
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Martin Guitar
LYRICS
I don’t know ho to get through the day
If you stay home, we can play
As your best friend, I say
Oh, no! Please don’t go away
(Baby, don’t go away)
When you leave and shut the door
I cry, and I cry for more
As your best friend, I say
Oh, no! Please don’t go away
Leaving me tears me apart
I don’t know where to start
As your best friend, I say
Oh, no! Please don’t go away
When I hear you open the door
I beg, and I beg for more
As your best friend, I say
Oh, no! Please don’t go away
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Em Bm Em / C D Em Bm Em
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar
LYRICS
I don’t know what’s come over me
Call it loss of control
’cause obviously
It’s plain to see
I see $hit and I roll
… that’s how I roll
Get the smell of you
Can’t help what I do
Found your shoe
Now I’m going to chew, chew, chew
… takes it’s toll
I see $hit and I roll
… that’s how I roll
When I see your door’s smallest crack
My opportunity to attack
Like an electric jolt
Flash! I’m gonna bolt
… the smallest hole
I see $hit and I roll
… that’s how I roll
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: E / D A E
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
LYRICS
You lay down with humans
You get up with fleas
You lay down with humans
You get up with fleas
’cause those damned humans
Do whatever they please
Sleeping ’round town
Words goin’ round
’cause those damned humans
Will bring ya to your knees
You get down with humans
You wake-up to fleas
’cause those damned humans
Do whatever they please
Cryin’ and scratchin’
Mange and sleaze
’cause those damned humans
Do whatever they please
Who’s the bad dog now
Them or we
’cause those damned humans
Do whatever they please
ABOUT THE SONG
A song inspired by the classic “Hound Dog”. Leiber and Stoller wrote the song using a bad dog as a metaphor for a bad man. So, this song reverses the rolls in defense of dogs everywhere.
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: A D A / D E A
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar
LYRICS
That dog, I love her
She loves me, too
Everything I wanna do
She wants to do, too
Don’t know about you
I’m tempted for two
But ‘cha know
She’s just right
So, I just might
Let it grow
Don’t know about you
When Man’s best friend is in view
(Inspector Clouseau) “I thought you said your dog….”
(Inn Keeper) “That is not my dog.”
I’ve got the dog-gone-it blues
Noooo… please don’t confuse
With the dog days of summer
That dog’s gone
What a bummer
Now, I might need three
To get me
Through the night
Yes, that’s right
A 3 dog night
Alright!
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: E A E B7 A E / E A B7 A E
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
LYRICS
The bold boy retrieves a toy
Shy lass… tail between ass
You’ve got it there
I think you’ve the instinct of a ratier
Just like that you’ll be tossing a rat
Then comes in the gold-digger
He’s tearing up our past
Too bad his soul can’t grow bigger
’cause his life will pass him by too fast
Tell the truth about
Ferret him out
ABOUT THE SONG
C A
C D A
This song was inspired by the animals of West Chester, PA… including the humans. It started when a terrier started going crazy on this toy. I was just sitting on the Court House wall writing a song, and a dog started going wild. It turns out it wasn’t a toy. It was a rat.
Ratiers are a type of dog specifically bred to flush-out rats.
The second verse is about a guy going through a public park with a metal detector.
LYRICS
Again and again with the sin, sin, sin
Then say it’s only true if I go through you?
Don’t you think Jesus had a dog, too
Who did either of them have to go through
Don’t try to save me
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
All good dogs go to heaven
8, 9, 10 then 11
All good children go to heaven
Don’t try to save me
Over and over with brimstone scented sulfur
Saying hell’s the only viable offer
Don’t try to save me
Don’t you think Jesus HAS a dog, too
How did they manage to get on through?
Don’t try to save me
Don’t wanna enslave me
Hold my hand into the Promised Land
Where the trees grow tall… and from the sky… bones fall
… bones will fall
A song inspired by the passing of the family pet. It’s about doing your best at doing what’s right. The day my dog died a bunch of religious zealots tried to save me. So, if Jesus is the only way to heaven, how does a dog get into heaven. Even more puzzling, how does Jesus get into heaven?
