Key: G minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Now you say you ain? t never met my wife,
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you ain? t never seen her befo,?
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Say you ain? t been hangin? roun? my
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crib; well here? s somethin? I wanna know?
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I wanna know what
Verse 2
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How come my dog don? t bark
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when you come around?
Verse 3
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I got the baddest dog,
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he? ll bite anybody.
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He bit my little brother,
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took a chunk out of my ol? sweet li? l mother.
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He bit the mailman? he sees him every day; he takes one look at you,
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he wanna jump up and play.
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Now I ain? t got a clue as
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to what you puttin? down, but
Verse 4
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How come my dog don? t bark
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when you come around?
Verse 5
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set people straight;
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I even bought a? BAD DOG? sign
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Here you come trippin? up? bout
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a quarter of nine
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tryin? to slide past the sign?
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My dog been noddin? off,
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That? s my dog,
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when I come home he don? t sleep THAT sound!
Verse 7
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How come my dog don? t bark
Verse 8
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I still don? t like it,
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I don? t dig it one damn bit,
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The way you an? my dog? s so tight,
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somethin? don? t fit!
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I slipped through the alley,
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I called my dog,
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Said,? get off your rusty duster,
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move a little faster to your ol? master, you old cayute, you.?
Verse 9
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He took one look at me,
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an? he growled an? he ran straight to you.
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Now somebody? s been
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confus in? my po? hound.
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An I wanna know what? s goin? down.
Verse 10
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How come my dog don? t bark when you come
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around?
Interlude 1
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Verse 11
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Maybe I better call up Jacoby & Myers,
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an ? you can take the fifth, amendment, that is.
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You better stand up fo? your rights,? cause you
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might not be standin' too long.
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I? m gonna stop all this con fusion. I? m gon? fire that hound.,
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shoot that dog down.
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Then I? m gonna get busy mutilatin, strangulatin? operatin?,
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an? crematin? my Ol? Lady down at the cremation station.
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Then I? m gonna torch that,
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too, and come right on after you!
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You can give you heart
Verse 12
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an ? soul to charity; all
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the rest gonna belong to me.
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I? m goin? straight
Verse 13
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down to dat barber supply shop, get me a pearl handle, double edge, hollow ground, super blue blade, adjustable, stain less steel, honed edge,
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both blades on the same side so when I cut you once, you gonna bleed twice, goin? an? comin?. An? if you don? believe me, shake yo? head; it? ll be singin? I ain? t got no body.?
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? Cause one night I did a little
Verse 14
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FBI Double- O- Seven- type investigatin?. You an? my Ol' Lady thought I was gone,
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but I wasn? t gone. Dat? s why I have to separate you from your ground. An the only soun? you gonna hear when you six feet in the ground:
Verse 15
How come my dog didn? t
bark when you came around?
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