Living The Life Of A Dog Song Lyrics and Chords by Johnny Paycheck
Living The Life Of A Dog
Recorded by Johnny Paycheck
Written by Aubrey Mayhew and Billy Eldridge
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I came home last night just a little
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late
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opened the door and she hit me with my supper
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Can't see a whole lot through these two black
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eyes
But I could
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see enough to know
I was sleeping with the dog
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tonight
Yeah I'm living the life of a
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dog
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get down on all fours when I
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walk
Scratching flees and sleeping on the ground
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Running with the coldest noses in town
I'm
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living the life of a
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dog
Well I built me a little bitty house way out
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back
I had
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all intentions of using it before I
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passed
But I've been in the dog house so many times
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started to chasing cars
And when you
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wrote my name on the pole baby
That's going just a little too
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far
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Well this dog business is gettin' out of
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hand
Why that
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woman's forgot that I'm really a
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man
Well I was upon the couch a scratching
I fell
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off and I hurt my neck
She
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loaded me up in the back of the truck
Said she was taking me to the
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Yes I'm
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living the life of a
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dog
FAQ
Who sang the the song Living The Life Of A Dog?
- The song Living The Life Of A Dog was sang by Johnny Paycheck.
Who is Johnny Paycheck?
- Johnny Paycheck (born Donald Eugene Lytle May 31, 1938 - February 19, 2003) was an American country music singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and Grand Ole Opry member notable for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It". He achieved his greatest success in the 1970s as a force in country music's "outlaw movement" popularized by artists Hank Williams Jr., Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, and Merle Haggard. In the 1980s, his music career slowed due to drug, alcohol and legal problems. He served a prison sentence in the early 1990s and his declining health effectively ended his career in early 2000. In 1980, Paycheck appeared on the PBS music program Austin City Limits (season 5).
