ARFIN' DOG

(Neal Phillips and Greg Trafidlo; parody of "Orphan Girl" by Gillian Welch)

I am a beggar in God’s doorway

Call my name and I'll come your way

I have no brother, no cousin

Adopted — I wasn’t

I am an Arfin' Dog

 

I was abandoned by my mother

There were no others in my litter

I have no father to go with me 

Down to Six Wags, chasing frisbees

I am an Arfin’ Dog

 

Other puppies, always cuter

At the pound where I was neutered

No best friend, no sister

Help me Jesus, Hairy Krishna

I am an Arfin’ Dog

 

When my master calls me, I’ll be able

To eat scraps from the family table

Blessed Savior, pure and shaggy 

Take my leash and make me waggy

No more an Arfin’ Dog

 

(sung to the tune of "Will the Circle Be Unbroken")

I will learn to be housebroken

By and by Lord, by and by

There’s a leather bone a‑waitin’

In the sky Lord in the sky

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