Stray Dog Man

[Intro ]
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Well, I'm always bringin' home the dogs that's found beside the road 
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I feed 'em and I pet 'em and they keep me on my toes 
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Well, but now it's gone a bit too far, I don't see why it's me 
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That has to take the strays in from the whole damn galaxy! 
 

 
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But I'm the stray dog man, and I do what I can 
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To give them pups some lovin' and a home (a home) 
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But I wish the ones in space would go find another place 
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And leave me and my doggies here alone!  

{Break} 
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Well, I was sittin' in the back yard in a t-shirt, drinkin' a beer 
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It was a hot and muggy evenin' but the sky was crystal clear 
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When I heard an engine poppin' but there was no one on the lane 
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So I shrugged and looked to heaven, rubbed my eyes and looked again 

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There was a kind of flyin' pickup with a glow across the back 
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And as I watched it hover there out flew this gunny sack 
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Well, that pickup truck got fuzzy, then it flashed into the sky 
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That gunny sack bounced off the roof and it landed with a cry 
 

 
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But I'm the stray dog man, and I do what I can 
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To give them pups some lovin' and a home (a home) 
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But I wish the ones in space would go find another place 
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And leave me and my doggies here alone! 

{Break} 
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Well now, Old Rover bounded over and he sniffed around the sack 
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Then he took off a-runnin' and he ain't ever comin' back! 
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Well, poor Fido was the next to go, he bit down on that thing 
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He died before he finished and he started turning green 


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(Spoken) Kind of sad, them four legs sticking straight up in the air 

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Well now, that gunny sack it rustled and it opened dark and wide 
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With the ugliest damn critter that I ever saw, inside 
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Well, it crawled out, stretched, and preened itself, then it ate poor Fido raw 
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Picked up the tractor and gulped it down then sat back with a yawn 

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Spoken:  
Well, by now I was gettin' a mite peeved - see, that was a brand new John Deere 
 
 
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But I'm the stray dog man, and I do what I can 
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To give them pups some lovin' and a home (a home) 
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But I wish the ones in space would go find another place 
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And leave me and my doggies here alone! 
 

 
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Well now, I got a collar on it and I hauled it to the shed 
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It tried to eat the padlock but I fed it nails instead 
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Well, it cried all night out there alone, but I knew what to do 
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I put a clock inside a mitten, but it ate that sucker, too! 

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Spoken:  
I guess it got kind of hungry when the alarm went off. It was kind of  
cute when you got to know him, though. I named him Ursa Major - 
that's 'cause he's a major pain in the urse 

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Well, I finally got him paper trained and I soon was glad to find 
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That everywhere that I would go, ol' Urse would tag behind 
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Well, the other dogs accept him now, he eats the ones that fight 
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The twelve of them are nasty huntin' rabbits late at night 

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Spoken:  
That rabbit thinks he's smart, he hides inside a tree - 
well, old Urse, he eats the tree! 
 
 
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But I'm the stray dog man, and I do what I can 
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To give them pups some lovin' and a home (a home) 
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But I wish the ones in space would go find another place 
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And leave me and my doggies here alone! 
 

 
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Well now, I thought that was the end of it, but when a month went by 
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Another flying pickup threw a sack out on the fly 
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Well, it struggled and it rumbled, then that gunny Baggie burst 
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And the thing that was inside it ate poor Ursa Major first! 

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Well now, it happens every month or so, and I'm getting rather vexed 
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As soon as I get fond of one, it gets eaten by the next! 
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So I'm buildin' me a rocket, next time I see a sack 
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I'm gonna toss it in the nosecone and I'll throw that sucker back! 
 

 
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But I'm the stray dog man, and I do what I can 
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To give them pups some lovin' and a home (a home) 
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But I wish the ones in space would go find another place 
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And leave me and my doggies here alone! 
 

Outro 
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Yes, I wish the ones in space would go find another place 
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And leave me and my doggies here alone!