Author/Artist: Loudon Wainwright III
Title: Dump the Dog
Album: Fame & Wealth
Transcribed by: Ramsay Wallace
Email: RamsayW1@aol.com

Loudon plays this on the banjo & picks out the melody. I've tried to do the same with the guitar. This is repeated throughout the whole song.

 D Dsus4   D     A             D
-2h3-2-0-0h2-x-|-0-0---0-2-0-|-2--
-3---3-3-3---3-|-2-0h2-2-0-0-|-3--
-2---2-2-2---2-|-2-2---2-2-2-|-2--
-0---0-0-0---0-|-2-2---2-2-2-|-0--
-x---x-x-x---x-|-0-0---0-----|-0--
---------------|-------------|----
 D Dsus4  D
Dump the dog & feed the garbage
 A                          D
Mow the floor & sweep the lawn
D Dsus4  D
Salt & pepper on my porridge
 A                        D
Some day I'll be dead & gone

Oh my good girl loves me madly & my bad girl is a flirt
I'll take the good with the bad gladly
And I'll treat them both like dirt

Bread & butter for my breakfast, peanut butter for my lunch
Apple butter for my dinner
Marjorine for Sunday brunch

Baseball's fine Football's rougher basketballers are all tall
But I like hockey, hockey's tougher
You must play without a ball

It's too much bother & too much trouble, I have stood all I can stand
I'm a son & I'm a father
I am just a middle man

When I wake up in the morning I hop up right out of bed
Unless of course I am hung over
Then I pretend that I am dead

Repeat Verse 1