Every time I go to town the boys keep kicking my dog around Don't know why I'm going to town I don't know why they kick my dog around
let me hear you now:
(dog, dog, dog dog, dog, dog dog, dog, dog why, why, why why, why, why why, why, why why, why, why)
Every time I go to town the boys keep kicking my dog around I don't know why I'm going to town I don't know why they kick my dog around
(dog, dog, dog) yes, yes, yes (why, why, why) oh-ho (dog, dog, dog) why, why, why (why, why, why) dog around
Every time I go and get a meal I can see the boys they're planning to steal My here dog, he's waggin' his tail he helps me pick up the morning mail (bark, bark, bark)
Every time I go to town the boys keep kicking my dog around (kick, kick, kick) I don't know why they kick my dog around I just keep go-oing to town (bark, bark, bark)
I don't know why (why, why, why) I don't know bark (dog, dog, dog) I don't know why (bark, bark, bark) bark-a bark, bark (quack, quack, quack) duck, duck, duck (duttuduttudu) pig pig pig (...) fuck fuck fuck (bark bark bark) dig dig dig
As Donald Legaut has pointed out, the pattern of the song goes back at least to the 1910s. One version is as follows:
Me and old Lem Briggs and old Bill Brown Took a load of corn to town Old Jim dog, the on'ery pup He just naturally followed us up
Every time I come to town The boys go to kicking my dog around Makes no difference if he's a hound Ya gotta quit kicking my dog around
As we driv' past the country store A passel of yaps came out the door Jim he scooted behind a box Showered him with sticks and rocks
They tied a tin can to his tail And run him past the county jail That just naturally makes me sore Bill he cussed and Lem he swore
Most probably because of his notoriously poor memory, Riley omitted to sing the expected finale:
Me and Lem Briggs and old Bill Brown Lost no time a-getting down We whupped them fellers to the ground
For kickin' my old dog, Jim, around Jim seed his duty there and then He sure let into those gentlemen He sure messed up that townhouse square With rags and meat and hide and hair