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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">You Gotta Quit Kicking My Dog Around</h1>
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  16 <p>Trad., arr. by Bob Dylan<br />
  17 Taped in the Basement (1967)<br />
  18 Tabbed (no, not really &ndash; transcribed) by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
  19
  20 <p>Played over a sustained G with a capo on the 2nd fret, and with
  21 occasional G-C/g-G embellishments.</p>
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  25 <pre class="verse">Every time I go to town
  26 the boys keep kicking my dog around
  27 Don't know why I'm going to town
  28 I don't know why they kick my dog around</pre>
  29
  30 <pre class="spoken">let me hear you now:</pre>
  31
  32 <pre class="refrain">(dog, dog, dog
  33  dog, dog, dog
  34  dog, dog, dog
  35  why, why, why
  36  why, why, why
  37  why, why, why
  38  why, why, why)</pre>
  39
  40 <pre class="verse"> Every time I go to town
  41  the  boys keep kicking my dog around
  42  I don't know why I'm going to town
  43  I don't know why they kick my dog around</pre>
  44
  45 <pre class="refrain"> (dog, dog, dog) yes, yes, yes
  46  (why, why, why) oh-ho
  47  (dog, dog, dog) why, why, why
  48  (why, why, why) dog around</pre>
  49
  50 <pre class="verse"> Every time I go and get a meal
  51  I can see the boys they're planning to steal
  52  My here dog, he's waggin' his tail
  53  he helps me pick up the morning mail (bark, bark, bark)</pre>
  54
  55 <pre class="verse"> Every time I go to town
  56  the boys keep kicking my dog around (kick, kick, kick)
  57  I don't know why they kick my dog around
  58  I just keep go-oing to town (bark, bark, bark)</pre>
  59
  60 <pre class="refrain"> I don't know why
  61  (why, why, why) I don't know bark
  62  (dog, dog, dog) I don't know why
  63  (bark, bark, bark) bark-a bark, bark
  64  (quack, quack, quack) duck, duck, duck
  65  (duttuduttudu) pig pig pig
  66  (...) fuck fuck fuck
  67  (bark bark bark) dig dig dig
  68 </pre>
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  71
  72 <p>As Donald Legaut has pointed out, the pattern of the song goes back at
  73 least to the 1910s. One version is as follows: </p>
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  75
  76 <pre>Me and old Lem Briggs and old Bill Brown
  77 Took a load of corn to town
  78 Old Jim dog, the on'ery pup
  79 He just naturally followed us up </pre>
  80
  81 <pre>Every time I come to town
  82 The boys go to kicking my dog around
  83 Makes no difference if he's a hound
  84 Ya gotta quit kicking my dog around </pre>
  85
  86 <pre>As we driv' past the country store
  87 A passel of yaps  came out the door
  88 Jim he scooted behind a box
  89 Showered him with sticks and rocks </pre>
  90
  91 <pre>They tied a tin can to his tail
  92 And run him past the county jail
  93 That just naturally makes me sore
  94 Bill he cussed and Lem he swore </pre>
  95
  96 <p>Most probably because of his notoriously poor memory, Riley omitted to sing the
  97 expected finale: </p>
  98
  99 <pre>Me and Lem Briggs and old Bill Brown
 100 Lost no time a-getting down
 101 We whupped them fellers to the ground</pre>
 102
 103
 104 <pre>For kickin' my old dog, Jim, around
 105 Jim seed his duty there and then
 106 He sure let into those gentlemen
 107 He sure messed up that townhouse square
 108 With rags and meat and hide and hair </pre>
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