DOGGIE PARADISE - Song Page
© words & music by Annie Wilson
from CD Sky & Water, Wind & Grass
Album Note: When I take our Toby for pasture walks, he never stops running and his tail literally goes in a circle the whole time. He is ecstatic. In this song, I try to imagine what he experiences with all his super-acute senses out on our little prairie adventures.
This song won First Place in Children's Songs in the 2015 Walnut Valley NewSongs songwriting contest.
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Lyrics:
Oh boy! We’re goin walkin
She’s lacin up her boots
We’re headin for the pasture gate
It’s time for cutting loose
No more layin round the yard
We’re goin where it’s wild
So much to smell and hear and chase
I wear my doggie smile
So many smells they’re hard to sort
(sniff) rabbits came this way
(sniff) A possum passed some time ago
(sniff) coons were here today
My ears are just on overload
I hear coyotes, turkeys, hawks
A deer cries deep down in the woods
A great big heron squawks
I’m takin in the prairie
with my nose and ears and eyes
My tail just won’t stop waggin
I’m in doggie paradise
Up ahead I see our pond
It’s time to take a swim
My people friend takes off her boots
But I can jump right in
I try to catch that bullfrog
Dive down to find that fish
This water feels so cool
I’m in hot dog doggie bliss
Then when I’m out and drippin
I turn and start to shake
The water flies off everywhere
My friend she jumps away
(sniff) I think I smell a badger
but I’ll let him go his way
Instead I’ll run and catch that bird
Oh dang he flew away
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I leap above the tallest grass
then dig down in the stones
I’m try’n to find what critter
calls this little hole his home
Then I see afar off - something white
along the trail towards home
Why Holy Roly Poly
It’s a great big old cow bone!
This feels like Christmas then I see
The real cream-de-la-cream
The freshest pile of cow manure
in all your wildest dreams
It’s rock and roll time baby
And I’m on it in a flash
I rub that prairie dog perfume
All up and down my back
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