{"id":15429,"date":"2023-03-23T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=15429"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:40:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:40:28","slug":"putting-on-the-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/putting-on-the-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting on the Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/K8uyi4KHHhU\">A comedy song by Aaron Wilburn.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OTHER TITLES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How can I miss you, if you won&#8217;t go away.<\/li>\n<li>If the phone doesn&#8217;t ring, you&#8217;ll know it&#8217;s me.<\/li>\n<li>When you leave, walk out backwards, so I think you&#8217;re walkin in<\/li>\n<li>If I shot you when I wanted to, I&#8217;d be out by now<\/li>\n<li>If you won&#8217;t leave me alone, I&#8217;ll find someone who will.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m so miserable without you, it&#8217;s almost like having you here.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m sorry I made you cry, but at least your face is cleaner<\/li>\n<li>The oil is all in Texas, but the Dipsticks are in D.C.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For men who haven&#8217;t yet got their wives a Christmas present<\/p>\n<p>Since all her friends have got one,\u00a0 Now my wife wants one two<br \/>\nA really fuzzy fur coat.\u00a0 Nothin else will do.<\/p>\n<p>Said she&#8217;d look really classy.\u00a0 Make me proud of her.<br \/>\nIf I&#8217;d just break down and buy her a fur.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll it got me to thinkin &#8211; how&#8217;m I gonna swing that sort of deal<br \/>\nThe Lord knows I can&#8217;t afford it &#8211; and it&#8217;s wrong to steal.<\/p>\n<p>But the problem fin&#8217;ly solved itself like a bolt out of the blue.<br \/>\nJumped right out in front of me, on Highway 22 (in front of Beatitudes )<\/p>\n<p>Well that big ol&#8217; German Shepard, a car that did not see<br \/>\nNow he&#8217;s in puppy dog heaven, but his hide belongs to me<\/p>\n<p>For three weeks in the basement I worked late almost every night<br \/>\nIt was mostly trial and error, but I finally got it right.<\/p>\n<p>I put it in a cardboard box and carried it up to her.<br \/>\nAw she was tickled pink to see that fur.<\/p>\n<p>Now she&#8217;s got a fancy fur coat &#8211; reaches all the way to her knees<br \/>\nBut she&#8217;s been complaining lately &#8211; says her closet&#8217;s full of fleas.<\/p>\n<p>She don&#8217;t know old Fido is wrapped around her tight<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s puttin on the dog when she goes out at night<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll she&#8217;s been depressed here lately, since I backed out over the cat<br \/>\nBut I think she&#8217;ll feel much better when I give her this new fur hat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comedy song by Aaron Wilburn. OTHER TITLES How can I miss you, if you won&#8217;t go away. If the phone doesn&#8217;t ring, you&#8217;ll know it&#8217;s me. When you leave, walk out backwards, so I think you&#8217;re walkin in If I shot you when I wanted to, I&#8217;d be out &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/putting-on-the-dog\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Putting on the Dog<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,11,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-christmas","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}