{"id":56457,"date":"2026-10-31T14:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T14:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=56457"},"modified":"2026-10-31T14:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T14:59:12","slug":"watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/10\/31\/watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental: Hohner Clavinet, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, sub-bass, organ, percussion, drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nGood boy!<br \/>\n(&#8230; best friend and buddy&#8230;)<br \/>\nDog.<br \/>\n(Watchdog)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse]<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s plain to see&#8230;<br \/>\nYou keep a good I on me<br \/>\n(A keen smell&#8230; you can tell)<br \/>\nA scent enters the scene<br \/>\n(Do you know what I mean?)<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nSurprise!<br \/>\n(You rise)<\/p>\n<p>Rousted<br \/>\n(Robust)<br \/>\nSound the alarm<br \/>\n(A must)<br \/>\nRestore calm<br \/>\n(Do no harm)<\/p>\n<p>Watchdog&#8230;<br \/>\n(Watching over me)<br \/>\nSets our souls free<\/p>\n<p>[Verse]<br \/>\nObviously&#8230;<br \/>\nYou keep a good I on me<br \/>\n(A keen eye&#8230; in a notion)<br \/>\nSense the motion&#8230;<br \/>\n(Seen in the scene)<br \/>\nDo you know what I mean?<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nSurprise!<br \/>\n(You rise)<\/p>\n<p>Rousted<br \/>\n(Robust)<br \/>\nSound the alarm<br \/>\n(A must)<br \/>\nRestore calm<br \/>\n(Do no harm)<\/p>\n<p>Watchdog&#8230;<br \/>\n(Watching over me)<br \/>\nSets our souls free<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nBy day by night<br \/>\n(At my feet)<br \/>\nTill dawns daylight<br \/>\n(We meet)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nSurprise!<br \/>\n(You rise)<\/p>\n<p>Good boy!<br \/>\n(Guarding joy)<br \/>\nMan&#8217;s&#8230;<br \/>\n(&#8230; best friend and buddy&#8230;)<br \/>\nDog.<br \/>\n(Watchdog)<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/Daniel\/Canine-Incisors\/\">Canine Incisors<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Instrumental: Hohner Clavinet, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, sub-bass, organ, percussion, drums] [Intro] Good boy! (&#8230; best friend and buddy&#8230;) Dog. (Watchdog) [Verse] It&#8217;s plain to see&#8230; You keep a good I on me (A keen smell&#8230; you can tell) A scent enters the scene (Do you know what I mean?) [Refrain] Surprise! (You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","nfd_image_url":"","nfd_onboarding_generated":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3792],"class_list":["post-56457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canine-incisors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56464,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56457\/revisions\/56464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}