# Songs sung from an animal's POV **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 2, 2009, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447 "2009-06-02T02:38:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/21 "2009-06-02T15:50:42Z")
\*\*Barenaked Ladies \*\*- “Tiny Little Song,” all from the POV of a cow. ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/22 "2009-06-02T15:56:11Z")
Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs - [Li’l Red Riding Hood](http://www.robert-kruse.com/samudio/pages/lyric-lilred.html) ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/23 "2009-06-02T15:58:34Z")
“Terrapin” by Syd Barrett (Sung not by a terrapin, oddly enough, but by a fish.) Genesis’ “A Trick of the Tail” is sung by a mythological beast. “I Am Your Pussy” by Gong – yes, it’s sung by a cat, double entendres notwithstanding. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/24 "2009-06-02T16:24:18Z")
“Wet Dream” by Kelly Monteith–a fish. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/25 "2009-06-02T16:27:48Z")
> [@tds1273](#): > > Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs - [Li’l Red Riding Hood](http://www.robert-kruse.com/samudio/pages/lyric-lilred.html) I have to admit I haven’t heard of any of the other songs listed in this thread, except this one–and it’s really an inspired choice. 🆒 Thanks to everyone thus far. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/26 "2009-06-02T16:29:34Z")
_Bright Eyes_, from the _Watership Down_ film, is from a rabbit’s POV. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/27 "2009-06-02T16:43:24Z")
“I Wanna Be Like You”, sung to Mowgli by King Louie the Ape. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/28 "2009-06-02T17:15:20Z")
The Weakerthans: [Plea from a Cat Named Virtue](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFjzQnZZ8q8) > [@](#): > > Why don’t you ever want to play? > I’m tired of this piece of string. > You sleep as much as I do now, > And you don’t eat much of anything. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/29 "2009-06-02T17:18:36Z")
Peter, Paul and Mary-[Leatherwing Bat](http://www.peterpaulandmary.com/music/10-03.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/30 "2009-06-02T18:16:28Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > “I Wanna Be Like You”, sung to Mowgli by King Louie the Ape. Isn’t the entire soundtrack, except “My Own Home”, sung by the animals? ---
**Author:** ![jaclynhyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@jaclynhyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaclynhyde)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/31 "2009-06-02T18:17:21Z")
Jonathan Coulton’s [Space Doggity](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsV-qozMz9A), sung partially from Laika’s POV. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/32 "2009-06-02T18:58:51Z")
Sandra Boynton has put out 3 CDs where many of the songs are sung by “animals.” Notable is “Penguin Lament” by 5 for Fighting. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/33 "2009-06-02T19:05:28Z")
XTC’s “Fly on the Wall”: “I am the fly upon the wall/My prying eyes are looking through your bottom drawer/I just came flying through your door…” > [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Adrian Belew, “The Lone Rhinoceros” Belew also wrote the lyrics for the King Crimson song “Dinosaur,” from the P.O.V. of a fossilized dino: “…what an easy prey I must have been/standing in the sun, idiot savant/something like a monument/I’m a dinosaur, somebody is digging my bones…”. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/34 "2009-06-02T19:21:28Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Isn’t the entire soundtrack, except “My Own Home”, sung by the animals? You’re right, although “I Wanna Be Like You” is specifically about being an animal and not a human. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/35 "2009-06-02T19:23:28Z")
Kate Bush’s song “Ne T’Enfuis Pas” is about [a cat stalking a bird](http://www.gaffaweb.org/sensual/l_ntfp.html). ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/36 "2009-06-02T19:46:18Z")
_Puff the Magic Dragon_. StG ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/37 "2009-06-02T19:52:27Z")
Flanders and Swann’s “The Elephant” and “The Sloth” are entirely from the title critter’s point of view. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/38 "2009-06-02T19:57:25Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > _Puff the Magic Dragon_. > > StG The song is sung in the third person by an unknown narrator, not by the dragon himself. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/39 "2009-06-03T05:17:56Z")
From a sort-of animal’s perspective: “[Furr](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmBgxP56R1I)”, by Blitzen Trapper. (Great, great song.) ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/40 "2009-06-03T05:17:59Z")
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