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I just thought of a topic that I can’t believe we’ve never discussed before: songs about pets! The only song I can think of that is truly about a pet is the Shaggs classic (and alleged Jon Hunstman fav) “Foot Foot”. Maybe “Me and You and a Dog Named Boo”. So let’s add in songs where pets play a prominent role. I’ll go with these, in order:

“Move It on Over” (whole song)
“Mr. Bojangles” (“the dog up and died, up and died”)
“Stray Cat Strut” (maybe a stray is not technically a pet, I don’t know)
“Born On the Bayou” (“I can still hear that hound dog barking”)
“Devil Woman” (don’t remember the exact lyric but there’s a scary cat)

Update. An all-pet-themed name that tune.

What else?

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  2. 2.

    El Tiburon

    Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphy. Ok, maybe a horse is technically not a pe in the traditional sense. But still..also too a tearjerker.

  3. 3.

    MattF

    How about those lines from Gillian Welch’s “The Way That it Goes”:

    Well, Miranda ran away
    Took her cat and left LA
    That’s the way that it goes
    That’s the way.

    She was busted, broke and flat
    Had to sell that pussy cat
    That’s the way that it goes
    That’s the way.

  4. 4.

    Ed in NJ

    Well, my wife’s name is Shannon, so I’m partial to that song by Henry Gross about the dog that drowns. Terrible, hilarious, and very catchy song all in one.

  9. 9.

    JenJen

    @El Tiburon: That was one of my favorite songs when I was a girl, but I was also a little horse-crazy back then.

    Another good pet song? “Martha, My Dear” by the Beatles, which was allegedly about Paul McCartney’s Old English Sheepdog.

  12. 12.

    The Golux

    Just off the top of my head:

    Beatles: Martha, My Dear
    John Hiatt: My Dog and Me
    Guy Clark: Queenie’s Song (a very sad song about finding your dog shot dead)

  15. 15.

    Suffern ACE

    Not exactly about the cat itself, but buying “store bought catfood for that mean-eyed cat” is one of the reasons the couple splits up in “Mean-eyed cat.”

  18. 18.

    Jack the Second

    Cake, Tougher Than It Is.

    The more you try to shave the cat / the more the thing will bite and scratch / it’s best, I think, to leave the fur / and to listen to its silky purr.

  20. 20.

    Mark D

    How the heck is there no Hound Dog by Elvis listed as of yet?

    Or is it a metaphor of some sort …

  21. 21.

    sal

    Seamus, Pink Floyd (Meddle)
    Mandy, Barry Manilow, allegedly about his dog, at least in some stories.
    Now I Want To be Your Dog, Iggy & the Stooges

  26. 26.

    BigHank53

    Presidents of the USA: Kitty.

    There’s also a tearjerker of bluegrass song about a dog mistakenly killed by his owner. Can’t remember the title at the moment.

  29. 29.

    david mizner

    @sal:

    I’m not sure I want to be Your Dog qualifies. If it does, then maybe NIN’s I Want to Fuck You Like An Animal does too?

  30. 30.

    Corbin Dallas Multipass

    The Miles Davis/Fishbone Mashup “Lyin Ass Bitches Brew”.

    Both songs were actually about female dogs.

  31. 31.

    MikeJ

    Hey DougJ, you’ve participated in NTT in the past, you have the knowledge and compatible taste of the core gang. Why don’t you guest dj a round?

    Cleek has a new (much harder) round going on now, but he’s usually open to somebody else doing the work.

  33. 33.

    mistermix

    @El Tiburon: Horse with No Name, then, but that’s not really about the animal.

    How about: Even a Dog Can Shake Hands, Warren Zevon

    There’s a band called Dogs Die in Hot Cars.

    And Ben Folds, Dog “My dog wears a path on the same line”

  40. 40.

    The Golux

    @El Tiburon: Also about horses, and marginally about pets: Steve Earle’s “Me And the Eagle”. It also has this amazing lyric about an eagle pulling a salmon from a river, from the salmon’s perspective:
    “Shuddered as the world turned from silver to blue.”

  41. 41.

    JMC

    “Lilly” from Pink Martini’s “Hang on Little Tomato” album.

    Lilly comes when you stop to call her
    Lilly runs when you look away
    Lilly leaves kisses on your collar
    Lilly, Lilly, Lilly, Lilly, stay!

  43. 43.

    Judas Escargot

    Quiche Lorraine, by the B52’s.

    I don’t own a poodle. This song is one of the many reasons why.

  44. 44.

    Gin & Tonic

    “Move it on Over”? Hank Williams, I think, more popularly covered by George Thorogood.

    ETA: I should read the top post more carefully, I guess.

  50. 50.

    Suffern ACE

    John Denver’s Grandma’s Featherbed would hold three kids, four hound dogs, and a piggy. Assuming that the pig isn’t a pet, but the hound dogs probably are.

  56. 56.

    Tom

    @joeyess

    Just googled it and that seems to be the case. Also found the first explanation that makes sense for the line “I thought major was a lady suffragette”: It’s a reference to Bowie (Major Tom + Suffragette City + Ziggy S. looked like a girl).

  58. 58.

    cervantes

    Old Mister Johnson had troubles of his own
    He had a yellow cat which wouldn’t leave its home;
    He tried and he tried to give the cat away,
    He gave it to a man goin’ far, far away.

    But the cat came back the very next day,
    The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
    But the cat came back; it just couldn’t stay away.
    Away, away, yea, yea, yea

    The man around the corner swore he’d kill the cat on sight,
    He loaded up his shotgun with nails and dynamite;
    He waited and he waited for the cat to come around,
    Ninety seven pieces of the man is all they found.

    But the cat came back the very next day,
    The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
    But the cat came back; it just couldn’t stay away.
    Away, away, yea, yea, yea

    And so on. People keep making up verses.

  60. 60.

    Napoleon

    As others have mentioned Martha, My Dear is about Paul McCartney’s English Sheep dog

    How the heck is there no Hound Dog by Elvis listed as of yet?

    Or is it a metaphor of some sort …

    I heard an interview with the writers of the song (Leiber and Stoller)and it was originally for and sang by some woman singer whose name I do not recall off the top of my head. The “hounddog” was her sleeping around husband.

    Anyways Elvis did the song and they hated it (but learned to live with it when the biggest royalty checks they had ever seen rolled in) and in the interveiw one of them said something along the lines of “suddenly when Elvis sang the song, the song was about a dog”.`

    By the way, the songs writers were one of the best songwriting duos of the last 60 years:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Leiber_and_Mike_Stoller

  66. 66.

    wapsie

    There’s that Pink Floyd song that mentions a mouse who hasn’t got a house, who’s called Gerald, who’s getting old but he’s a good mouse.

  68. 68.

    Tom

    There’s that Pink Floyd song

    Speaking of which, there’s “Seamus” off Meddle. Not one of my favorites off maybe my favorite album of theirs.

  72. 72.

    trollhattan

    Okie dokie, since you asked.

    “Dirty Love” –Zappa

    [THE POODLE BITES! (Come on, Frenchie) THE POODLE CHEWS IT! (Not a speck of cereal!) THE POODLE BITES! (Come on, Frenchie) THE POODLE CHEWS IT! (Nothing but the best for my dog!)]

    “Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver” –Primus

    You’re welcome.

  74. 74.

    Ben Cisco

    “A Horse With No Name” from America.
    __
    No, maybe the song wasn’t specifically about the horse, but I don’t care, it’s a cool song.

  78. 78.

    Citizen_X

    “Walking the Cow” by Daniel Johnston, and every other song of his that mentions a cow.

    Plus “I Had a Dream” and “Monkey In a Zoo,” and any other song of his where he depicts himself as a pet monkey.

  82. 82.

    wapsie

    “put a chain around my neck and lead me anywhere”

    Worst Elvis (and teddybear themed) tune ever

  84. 84.

    trollhattan

    @wapsie:

    There’s that Pink Floyd song that mentions a mouse who hasn’t got a house, who’s called Gerald, who’s getting old but he’s a good mouse.

    Good memory. That’s from “Bike” on the first album, which also had “Lucifer Sam” about Syd Barrett’s cat.

  92. 92.

    wapsie

    Another stretch, but what the hell…

    The Pharoahs, “Little Red Riding Hood”

    (Belongs more on a Furry Playlist I’ve been mentally compiling, consisting of songs from a beast-character”s perspective. Jethro Tull’s “Bungle in the Jungle” is another. Duran Duran has a wolf’s view song too.)

  93. 93.

    wapsie

    Another stretch, but what the hell…

    The Pharoahs, “Little Red Riding Hood”

    (Belongs more on a Furry Playlist I’ve been mentally compiling, consisting of songs from a beast-character”s perspective. Jethro Tull’s “Bungle in the Jungle” is another. Duran Duran has a wolf’s view song too.)

  94. 94.

    Karounie

    More B52s – 52 Girls (Rock Lobster B-side)

    I read somewhere that the “girls” named in the song were their pet goats.

  97. 97.

    Grover's Bathtub

    “Youth Culture Killed My Dog” – They Might Be Giants
    “Charly” – The Prodigy
    “Sheila” – Morphine

  99. 99.

    tomvox1

    Al Stewart “Year of the Cat”:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqZc7ZQURMs

    Late model Byrds, “Old Blue”:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIFplonFHT8

    Even later model Byrds, “Bugler”:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q36cCm3OMbI

    Temple of the Dog, “Call Me a Dog”:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRFdJIoTsq4

    Bowie, “Diamond Dogs”, Pink Floyd, “Dogs”,

    Rocky Erickson, “Two Headed Dog”:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqwnrn0iKCo

    Iron & Wine: “Wolves (Song of the Shepherd’s Dog)”:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKFTEdhPQ9A

    Iron & Wine, “Flightless Bird, American Mouth”:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYUFcxBq1y4

    Belle & Sebastian, “Dog on Wheels”.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9AKgGFlQzY

    Big Momma Thronton, Elvis Presley, “Hound Dog”:

    Rufus Thomas, “Bear Cat (The Answer to Hound Dog)”:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfSO2qjX6fo

    Rufus Thomas, “Walking the Dog”:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6AZNywvF-s&feature=related

    To name a few…

  100. 100.

    wapsie

    “We are the Moles” by the Moles. A wonderful, weird little record. Moles are pretty philosophical, it turns out.

  101. 101.

    punkdavid

    Most of my choices have already been named,
    but there is a cool little song on Jane’s Addiction’s album Kettle Whistle called “My Cat’s Name is Maceo”, and Maceo Parker plays trumpet on the song.

  105. 105.

    Comrade Mary

    @DMcK: Take it away, Lester!

    One does wonder, however, what Gallo would have made of Dylan’s tribute to him; and one receives a possible answer in Goddard’s book, where Gallo’s ex-wife describes borrowing a hundred bucks from Joey’s father to buy records so that the Prince of Brooklyn, always a fan of contemporary music, could catch up on what had been happening in Soundsville during the decade he’d been away reading Reich in the slams: `He got especially mad over a Byrds album called Chestnut Mare that I wanted him to hear. “Listen to the lyrics,” I said. “They’re so pretty, and so well done.” “I don’t want to hear any fags singing about any fucking horse,” he says – and he’s really venomous. “It’s not about a fucking horse,” I said. “If you’ll listen, it’s about life.” But he doesn’t want to hear about life either . . . Next thing I know, he jumps out of the bathtub, snatches the record off the machine, stomp out in the hall stark naked and pitches it down the incinerator.’

  107. 107.

    Tony J

    If you insist. Dig the groovy effects in this Eurotastic paean to equine beauty from Ireland’s most trusted religious figure.

  108. 108.

    Comrade Mary

    Umm, moderator, please hope me? FYWP took offense at something I quoted from Lester Bangs in the post just before this one.

  113. 113.

    Continental Op

    Stray cat: animal or metaphor? I thought the song was about about a single heterosexual male cruising for women.

  114. 114.

    realbtl

    Wasn’t there a traditional folk song that went something like:

    The cat came back, the very next day.
    The cat came back, it wouldn’t stay away.

    Or have I lost too many brain cells over the years?

  115. 115.

    bemused

    I was curious why one of our sons named his new black kitty Frankenstein thinking a Halloween theme but it was ‘inspired’ by “Another Saturday Night”.

  117. 117.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    Not a dog song but the barking dogs at the beginning of Been Caught Stealing by Jane’s Addiction would always cause my lab to cock his head a few times whenever it came on the radio.

  120. 120.

    jfxgillis

    The Weight. (Rock of Ages)

    Crazy Chester followed me, and he caught me in the fog.
    He said, “I will fix your rack, if you’ll take Jack, my dog.”
    I said, “Wait a minute, Chester, you know I’m a peaceful man.”
    He said, “That’s okay, boy, won’t you feed him when you can.”

  121. 121.

    jayackroyd

    Speaking of dead Kennedys, I’m reading Bill James’ true crime book. He plumps for the theory that JFK was killed, accidentally, by a Secret Service guy grabbing an AR-15.

  124. 124.

    EvolutionaryDesign

    Well, I’m WAY late to the party, but Suicide Machines “Sometimes I Don’t Mind” is the best song about a dog ever.

  129. 129.

    MattW

    Crowded House frontman Neil Finn wrote a bittersweet song called “Lester” about how he was affected when his dog survived being hit by a car. From their Afterglow album:

    “I will change if Lester lives,
    not mess him ’round,
    just ’cause I own him.
    He was nearly wiped away,
    but he had good luck and strong bones
    inside and behind him.”

  130. 130.

    Richard W. Crews

    IF “I wanna be your dog” counts, then so does Taste’s ” wish I was your catfish.”
    And for the oldies : “Patti Page (?) “How much is that doggie in the window?”

  135. 135.

    East Coaster

    “My dog died just yesterday and left me all alone”

    Down to Seeds and Stems Again Blues

    Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen

  137. 137.

    Adolphus

    A little late to this wonderful thread, so a lot of people have mentioned my first round draft picks.

    I would mention that there was once a compilation album of Goth songs about dead pet cats called A Cat Shaped Hole in My Heart.

    Also Convoy singer CW McCall once had a song about Roy his favorite cat that ends “Yeah Roy was a Good Ole Boy…… until the dogs got him.”

    And for my money the absolute best song that is a eulogy on a recently passed pet is by the little remembered band Klaatu called All Good Things Must End with this memorable lyric:

    I know it sounds a trifle odd to those who’ve never had a dog
    but I never had a closer friend than you

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNFCKfyOKcc

  139. 139.

    feebog

    Deep in the weeds, but my good friend Michael Wesley Hughes wrote and recorded a song with Blues Highway called, “When I die Pretty Baby, I want to Come back as your dog” He actually wrote some of the lyrics one Saturday while we were playing golf. Wish I could take some credit for helping him with the lyrics, but he axed all my (mostly crappy)suggestions.

  142. 142.

    Violet

    An entire thread and no one mentions Mitt Romney’s favorite song about his dog: “Who let the dogs out (on the roof of the car)”.

  143. 143.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @ schrodinger’s cat: I am in Madison. Would you move here if you get the position? Kick ass (I have been told it is bad luck to say “Good luck”).

  145. 145.

    Adolphus

    The more I think about it, Country and Western, before it became all disco-y and pop music, really has some of the best dog songs.

    Red Sovine Old Rivers
    Tom T. Hall Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine
    Johnny Cash, Elvis and others Old Shep
    Jeff Carson Real Life

    I even think there was a compilation album of country songs about dogs. It is probably the favored topic of C&W songs after trains, rain, momma, prison, and trucks.

  146. 146.

    schrodinger's cat

    @Omnes Omnibus: Thanks. I don’t know yet. I have never been to Madison. Only been to Chicago in the midwest. How are the winters? are they worse than New England?
    ETA: I am not even conducting an active job search, they found me, I am curious.

  147. 147.

    Litlebritdifrnt2

    OT – on the offchance that Mistermix reads the comments, COOK YOUR TURKEY UPSIDEDOWN! It will be the moistest turkey you have ever eaten. Bullshit with all this brining mess. Prepare it as usual and put it breast side down in the roaster. You can flip it for the last 20 mins or so if you want to brown the breast skin. I guarantee you that the meat will fall off the bone. When you cook it the normal way all of the juices settle down to the back (and who eats that?) my way all of the juices settle into the breast meat. One year we had a couple of single friends over for dinner and one of them asked if he could “grab one of the legs” I said sure and he grabbed the bone, pulled and the bone came away minus any turkey. He looked at it and said “I have never seen that happen before”.

    Quick disclaimer, this only works if you are not wed to the “perfect turkey on the table” idea, sometimes the bird is so moist and perfect that it sort of falls apart, (a common refrain at my house when I do the 20 minute flip “me turkey fell apart again!”)

  150. 150.

    marv

    The Roches – “damned old dog”.

    “Do I wanna be a dog –
    Cut the heat out of me”

    I still think that’s one of the best records money can buy

  153. 153.

    Violet

    OT – Does anyone know if Extra Fine Granulated Sugar will act the same way in a recipe (baking) as regular Granulated Sugar? Somehow I managed to grab a pound of sugar and when I was pouring it into the container I thought it seemed very fine. Checked the package and sure enough in very fine print about the giant “GRANULATED” was “Extra Fine.” UGH. It was in a pile with what looked like regular sugar.

    I have to bake and don’t know if I should go back to the store to get proper sugar. I hate it when companies do stuff like that. If it’s different from regular sugar it should be written in large letters to make it really obvious.

  154. 154.

    KSE

    Magnetic Fields’ “Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long”. It’s a highly metaphorical pet but that still counts, right?

    Oh also Momus – “I Am A Kitten”

  155. 155.

    Kilkee

    Ok, VERY obscure, but there’s an Irish tune sung by Andy Irvine called “The Humours of the King of Ballyhooley,” in which he proposes to his beloved by boasting thusly: “I have a house beyond yon hill, two fine greyhounds and a ferret…”

    Chicks dig it!

  156. 156.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @ schrodinger’s cat: I guess it would depend on where in NE. Certainly, they are harsher than CT. Northern VT or ME, maybe not.

  157. 157.

    Cain

    @Comrade Mary:

    John Cole goes Countrypolitan

    Hah,I sang that song at our wedding reception. My dad got it a long time ago..it’s the only song I know all the words too!

    Also:

    Heart – Dog and Butterfly
    and for John Cole:
    PInk Martini – Lilly

  159. 159.

    KSE

    I could probably fill out a pretty good mix CD here just on cats…

    The Dirtbombs – I’m Not Your Scratching Post
    Big Black – Kitty Empire
    The Kinks – Phenomenal Cat
    The Birthday Party – Catman
    The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Lion Cut
    Max Romeo – Play With Your Pussy (one of those filthy-but-not songs, like “Big 10 Inch Record”)
    Dan Deacon – Crystal Cat
    Shannon and the Clams – Cat Party
    The Lonesome Organist – No Place For My Kitten

    Aaand no idea if this will work but this one is definitely not about an actual cat:
    2 Cat Walk final v3.mp3

  163. 163.

    TangledThread

    @Violet: It should be fine. Unless your recipe wants something really specific like sanding sugar or confectioner’s sugar, extra-fine/ superfine/ “regular” all work the same, cup for cup.

    Source: “The New Food Lover’s Companion, 3rd. ed.”, Sharon Tyler Herbst (Barron’s).

  165. 165.

    Bill Murray

    Mega City 4 — “Scared of Cats” and “The Dog Lady”

    Wesley Willis “Suck My Dog’s Dick” and “Beware of Dog”

  167. 167.

    James Gary

    Belly – “Slow Dog.” More of an ex-dog in the song, but still a dog.
    Lobo – “Me And You And A Dog Named Boo.”
    Nick Drake – “Black-Eyed Dog.”
    Stephen Malkmus – “Jenny And The Ess-Dog.” Featuring Tré, a “retriever with a frayed/ ban-dan-a round his neck.”
    TV On The Radio – “Love Dog.”
    Blue Öyster Cult – “Baby Ice Dog.” FYI: the, shall we say, not-exactly PC lyrics to this one were written by noted misogynist Patti Smith.

    Apologies to anyone who posted any of these earlier. Also, I can enthusiastically second the efficacy of roasting one’s turkey breast-up, having done it myself for years.

    PS. And let’s not forget “My Girl’s P***y,” — as you might suspect from the title, a smirking double-entendre tune from the 1930s later covered by R. Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders.

  173. 173.

    LIBrad

    For a real tear-jerker, how about “Feed Jake” by Pirates of the Mississippi?

    I’m standin’ at the crossroads in life
    And i don’t know where to go
    You know you’ve got my heart,babe
    But my music’s got my soul
    Let me play it one more time
    Tell the truth and make it right
    And hope they understand me

    Now I lay me down to sleep
    And pray the Lord my soul to keep
    If i die before I wake,feed Jake
    He’s been a good dog
    My best friend right through it all
    If I die before i wake,feed Jake

  177. 177.

    Redshift

    @Adolphus:

    And for my money the absolute best song that is a eulogy on a recently passed pet is by the little remembered band Klaatu called All Good Things Must End with this memorable lyric…

    Yes! You beat me to it.

  179. 179.

    Scamp Dog

    How about Del Shannon’s “Runaway”? If you think about the lyrics, it makes a bit more sense for “I wonder where she will stay, my little runaway” to be about a dog instead of a girlfriend. Also, there’s nothing in the lyrics to contradict my theory, so I’m claiming it as a dog song. :)

  180. 180.

    ErikaF

    No one’s mentioned “Delilah” by Queen (on the Innuendo Album). It was written by Freddie Mercury, and was about his pet cat.

    Delilah, Delilah, oh my, oh my, oh my – you’re unpredictable – ooh ooh ooh ooh
    You make me so very happy
    When you cuddle up and go to sleep beside me
    And then you make me slightly mad
    When you pee all over my Chippendale suite

  182. 182.

    The Fat Kate Middleton

    Oh… nobody’s mentioned the song I have to sing to two year old granddaughter: ” … and Bingo was his naaame-o.” I have to sing that a LOT.

    And my son (Daddy) just played “Me and My Arrow” three times last night, just reminiscing about his childhood days. He so loved the cartoon version of it.

  183. 183.

    Karen

    “Dead Puppies” – Ogden Edsel

    “Yellow Snow” – Frank Zappa

    “Dog and Butterfly” Heart

  185. 185.

    maidhc

    “Walking My Cat named Dog”, Norma Tanega
    “Henry Thomas (My Cat Henry)”, Lovin’ Spoonful
    “Tom Cat”, Rooftop Singers

  189. 189.

    imonlylurking

    Cowboy Junkies did a song called Horse In The Country:

    “I got a horse, out in the country-
    I get to see him,, every second Sunday.
    He comes when I call-yeah, he knows his name.
    Someday I’ll saddle up, and the two of us will ride away.”

  190. 190.

    Diana

    no-one seems yet to have mentioned Crosby Stills “Our House” (apologies if someone has):

    Our house is a very, very fine house
    With two cats in the yard
    Life used to be so hard
    Now everything is easy
    ‘Cause of you

    does it say something about most guys’ relationships to their pets that songs about dogs tend to be actually about dogs, but songs about cats tend to be metaphors?

    anyhow, two comments:

    Litlebritifrt2: you give new meaning to the term, “flip the bird.”

    Violet: if you’re just mixing the sugar in with something else to bake it, it’s probably fine. If you were melting pure sugar for caramel or chocolate, you might need to adjust the melting point, because chances are it will melt faster at certain temperatures. For ordinary home baking, however, I’d not worry.

  191. 191.

    Skipjack

    I happened to be listening to Al Stewart’s “Year of the Cat” when i stumbled on this thread. That’s not actually about a pet, unless you mean a pet human.

    “Mandy” by Mannilow leapt to the top of my brain and I’m surprised DougJ didn’t include it even as a joke.

    I’ve got one though that is openly about the singer’s cat with no subtext whatsoever, and it’s dumb as a bag of hammers but also one of my favorites of theirs. The coda sums up their musicality more than most anything else they’ve done:

    Edgar by the Lunachicks. It’s awfully awesome, or the other way around, much like the band.

    “Lookin’ at you with your loving eyes
    So young but you seem so wise
    Eatin’ food before Miso can
    Chewin’ plastic on the garbage can
    Love a nip when you wanna get high
    Piss in the shower cause you’re so fly!”

  195. 195.

    BongCrosby

    I’d like to offer pub rocker John Eddie’s “It’s A Wonderful Life,” with the lyric:

    I got a dog
    And that dog ain’t got no fleas
    You know he smells like a rose
    At least he does to me
    He don’t get in the trash
    And yeah it’s understood
    Don’t bring me the paper less the news is good
    I swear
    It’s a wonderful life

    Basically, in the setup, the singer has a great girlfriend, great car and a great dog, and “it’s a wonderful life.”

    At the end of the song, his girl runs off with some guy, they steal his car and run over his dog.

    Okay, so maybe it’s not the most Thanksgiving-y song in the world.

  196. 196.

    Adolphus

    @THE:

    Which, btw, was written by children’s poet and all-around talented songster Shel Silverstein who also wrote I Saw Polly in a Porny with a Pony, which is about someone’s pet, I suppose.

  200. 200.

    Mnemosyne

    @THE:

    Back when I was a kid, the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago had a segment on one of the local kids’ shows and that was the theme song. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the Irish Rovers version, though.

  203. 203.

    Sourmash

    Hello?!?! “The Weight”:
    Crazy Chester followed me, and he caught me in the fog.
    He said, “I will fix your rack, if you’ll take Jack, my dog.”
    I said, “Wait a minute, Chester, you know I’m a peaceful man.”
    He said, “That’s okay, boy, won’t you feed him when you can.”

    And John Hiatt’s “Dust down a country road”:
    There’s an old dog staring
    At the dust down a country road…
    Cause he ain’t much good for nothin’
    ‘cept staring at the dust
    Lord I wonder what he’s looking at
    Sneaking up on us.

    Two great ones.

  208. 208.

    Hugh

    Too many comments to see if this was included. Sorry if it’s a repeat.

    Me and My Arrow – Harry Nilsson

  216. 216.

    John Revolta

    Cat in the Window- Petula Clark
    Jealous Dogs- Pretenders
    Catfish Blues- Muddy Waters
    Big Electric Cat- Adrian Belew
    Walkin’My Cat Named Dog- Dr. Hook

  217. 217.

    dj spellchecka

    the story: “dog dreams”

    No bad dog, no stay, no basement, no way, no choke chain, no dry food, no fetch game, no, no, no . . . no sit, lie down, roll over, shame…shame on you.

    Me and Rex took the car….ha, ha, stay home. Stay.

    We’re gonna go through everyone’s garbage and have the dinners we deserve.

    We’re gonna find some great smelling bitches and see if they meant what they said from the end of the leash.

    Dog dreams, dog dreams, please don’t hose us off.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq6bkTOyikk

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