a 1922 popular song words and music by Cliff Friend & Nat Osborne
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Blues
I’m all alone with head bowed down
And I feel just like a hound
Just because she treats me like a dog
She won’t let me sleep in bed
So I sleep out in the shed
Just because she treats me like a dog
Chorus
I got the Bow Wow Blues
I got the Bow Wow Blues
She used to growl at me
Each morn she’d howl at me
“You dog-gone this, you dog-gone that”
She even made me sleep out with the cat
Oh! Bow Wow Blues, I’ve surely been abused
She led me a dog’s life, then she tied a can to me
I got the Bow Wow Blues, Bow Wow Blues
Blues
The old dog catcher said, “My lad
I believe you’re going mad”
Just because she treats me like a dog
When I pass by the boys all say
“(whistle) here comes old dog Tray”
Just because she treats me like a dog