{"id":15503,"date":"2023-04-05T03:56:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T03:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=15503"},"modified":"2025-08-20T14:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:52:34","slug":"gonna-buy-me-a-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/gonna-buy-me-a-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonna Buy me a Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"
Gonna Buy Me A Dog:The Monkees.\r\n<\/span>Album - The Monkees - #1 on BB Hot 200\r\n<\/span>on COLGEMS Records in 1966.\r\n<\/span>(The song is mostly them screwing around..\r\n<\/span> but the song got a lot of air time in\r\n<\/span> some areas..plus, it was a request.)\r\n<\/span> \r\nINTRO: B<\/span> A<\/span> E<\/span>\r\n<\/span> \r\n#1.\r\n<\/span>E<\/span>\r\n<\/span>You know my girl just called me up..and she \r\n<\/span><\/span>                E7<\/span>\r\n<\/span>woke me from my sleep.\r\n<\/span><\/span>    E<\/span>\r\n<\/span>You should have heard the things she said..\r\n<\/span><\/span>    E<\/span>\r\n<\/span>you know she hurt my feelings deep.\r\n<\/span><\/span>                      A<\/span>\r\n<\/span>I'm going to buy me a dog.\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nCHORUS:AD LIB:\r\n<\/span>A<\/span>                                              E<\/span>\r\n<\/span>A dog?..a dog..Why? Why? Cause I need a friend now.\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n(Babe, you need all the friends you can get, I'm\r\n<\/span> \r\ntelling you.)\r\n<\/span>E<\/span>                  A<\/span>\r\n<\/span>I'm gonna buy me a dog..my girl, my girl don't love \r\n<\/span><\/span>       B<\/span>\r\n<\/span>me, no how..(Don't ruin my song, man..it's the only \r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nsong I have!\r\n<\/span>The song was already ruined before it was wrote.)\r\n<\/span> \r\n#2.\r\n<\/span>E<\/span>\r\n<\/span>She used to bring my newspaper..(you don't even know \r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nwhere it's at!)\r\n<\/span>E<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Cause she knew where it was at..she used to keep me \r\n<\/span><\/span>                  A<\/span>                       E<\/span>\r\n<\/span>so contented..but I can teach a dog to do that!\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nCHORUS:AD LIB:\r\n<\/span>E<\/span>                  A<\/span>\r\n<\/span>I'm gonna buy me a dog!\r\n<\/span><\/span>(You can't teach dogs to do that, you can only train\r\n<\/span>elephants.)\r\n<\/span>A<\/span>                     E<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Cause I need a friend now..(I need a friend now, now,\r\n<\/span><\/span>yeah.)\r\n<\/span>E<\/span>                  A<\/span>\r\n<\/span>I'm gonna buy me a dog..\r\n<\/span><\/span>(A dog, here Rover, Fido, Spot..)\r\n<\/span>                                   B<\/span>\r\n<\/span>my girl, my girl don't love me, no how.\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n(1,2,3..1234567..Hike!Hike!Hike!\r\n<\/span>I was late on that one.)\r\n<\/span>I just got back from Africa, ya know, I was playing cards\r\n<\/span>with the natives..oh, Zulus?..No, I usually won, ha-ha.\r\n<\/span>I wish I had a glass of water..Why, are you thirsty?\r\n<\/span>No, I want to see if my neck leaks.\r\n<\/span>I'd buy a raccoon but John already has one..$35 bucks.\r\n<\/span>Where do I come in? Here?\r\n<\/span> \r\nCHORUS:AD LIB:\r\n<\/span>E<\/span>                  A<\/span>\r\n<\/span>I'm gonna buy me a dog..( dog..a dog, umm yeah.)\r\n<\/span><\/span>                       E<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Cause I need a friend, now..(Yeah, yeah..Bop-bop-she-bop-bop- \r\n<\/span><\/span>rama-lama-.)\r\n<\/span>E<\/span>                  A<\/span>                                       B<\/span>\r\n<\/span>I'm gonna buy me a dog..my girl, my girl don't love me, no how.\r\n<\/span><\/span>(How-How-How now, brown cow?\r\n<\/span>(I think I'm gonna buy me a dog, yes sir..I'm gonna buy me\r\n<\/span>a dog. If I was looking for a word to describe what I'm gonna buy\r\n<\/span>I think dog would be the word. Would it be dog? It would be dog.\r\n<\/span>Definitely dog.\r\n<\/span>It would come springing from my lips, dog..Boing, boing boing.\r\n<\/span>It would be springing! Is that it, Tommy?Can you turn it off please?\r\n<\/span>Can somebody open the door and let us out?\r\n<\/span>They're coming to take us away! Ha-ha, he-he, ho-ho.) (Fade.)\r\n<\/span> \r\n \r\nA sixties smash from Kraziekhat.\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n
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Gonna Buy Me A Dog:The Monkees. Album – The Monkees – #1 on BB Hot 200 on COLGEMS Records in 1966. (The song is mostly them screwing around.. but the song got a lot of air time in some areas..plus, it was a request.) INTRO: B A E #1. E … CLICK TO VIEW SONGGonna Buy me a 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":[95,116,117,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-monkees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503","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=15503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}