I Hate My Dog

1999

POST-I-hate-my-dog

Programme notes

Recorded in New York City (1999) by Robert Poss. One of the numbers that I still play often. The title line was probably thought of in a break during an Analecta rehearsal by Gert-Jan Prins, although why it become a song is still a mystery to me.

Lyrics

I hate my dog
he walks around in a fog
he’s messing up my place
I can’t stand his face

Bark, bark, woof, woof

I hate him all of the time
I hate him when I rhyme
I’m hating him right now
every “bow wow wow”

Bark, bark, woof, woof
I wanna throw him off the roof

had to buy him a collar
cost me a dollar
had to buy him some food
it didn’t change my mood

hot breath in my face
hot breath on my mouth
smells like piss on my sheets
he’s chewing up my towels

he’s up in my bed
he’s into my clothes
he’s running around like a hound going
Bark, bark, woof, woof
I wanna throw him off the roof