# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/41 "2009-06-03T05:34:32Z")
[Neko Case / At Last](http://www.nekocase.com/lyrics/fox11.htm) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/42 "2009-06-03T06:40:37Z")
One of my favorite kids’ songs, _Little White Duck._ Way back when I was in kindergarten (59 years ago!) we acted out this song and others, for our parents. I was the little green frog and looked like this: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/43 "2009-06-11T05:38:03Z")
This is a bit of a zombie thread now, but I wanted to submit a song sung from the POV of a cat. Inspired by this thread, I made a [sorta “video” to the song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSY7Ub1yj_8), using pictures of fellow Doper’s cats, besides my own and the artist’s. The captions, which identify the cat and Doper names, can be turned off or on. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/44 "2009-06-11T11:29:39Z")
Lovely! Thanks for putting that together - and your kitteh’s are gorgeous, too! What restraint you showed in your MPSIMS thread, not showing your kittehs at the same time. You did a beautiful job on your video. What handsome overlords we Dopers have! ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/45 "2009-06-11T12:29:18Z")
\*\*The Siamese Cat Song \*\*from _Lady and the Tramp_ We are Siamese if you please We are Siamese if you don’t please We are former residents of Siam There is no finer cat than I am ---
**Author:** ![wintertime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c68b51/32.png) [@wintertime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wintertime)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/46 "2009-06-11T12:44:33Z")
The pre-revolutionary anthem in “Animal Farm” ``` Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken to my joyful tidings Of the Golden future time. Soon or late the day is coming, Tyrant Man shall be o'er thrown, And the fruitful fields of England Shall be trod by beasts alone. Rings shall vanish from our noses, And the harness from our back, Bit and spur shall rust forever, Cruel whips no more shall crack. Riches more than mind can picture, Wheat and barley, oats and hay, Clover, beans and mangel-wurzels Shall be ours upon that day. Bright will shine the fields of England, Purer shall its waters be, Sweeter yet shall blow its breezes On the day that sets us free. For that day we all must labour, Though we die before it break; Cows and horses, geese and turkeys, All must toil for freedom's sake. Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken well, and spread my tidings Of the Golden future time. ``` Later replaced by ``` Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy Calm and commanding eye, Like the sun in the sky, Comrade Napoleon! Thou are the giver of All that thy creatures love, Full belly twice a day, clean straw to roll upon; Every beast big and small Sleeps at peace in his stall, Thou watchest over all, Comrade Napoleon! Had I a sucking-pig, Ere he had grown as big Even as a pint bottle or as a rolling-pin, He should have learned to be Faithful and true to thee, yes, his first squeak should be "Comrade Napoleon!" ``` ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/47 "2009-06-11T13:39:01Z")
> [@singular1](#): > > Lovely! > Thanks for putting that together - and your kitteh’s are gorgeous, too! What restraint you showed in your MPSIMS thread, not showing your kittehs at the same time. You did a beautiful job on your video. What handsome overlords we Dopers have! Thank you! You and Lily (and Ooops) provided me with some wonderful pictures to use. I’m sorry I couldn’t get Jake in there too. I had the picture of Lily and Jake hissing at each other, but it got cut in a painful purge. I hope to be able to use your dog in my next project to the Jane Siberry song, whenever that happens. What’s the dog’s name? ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/48 "2009-06-11T14:35:54Z")
Dog Dreams, by Jonatha Brooke _Me and Rex took the car ha, ha, stay home. Stay. We’re gonna go through everyone’s garbage And have the dinners we deserve. We’re gonna find some great smelling bitches…_ ---
**Author:** ![Reloy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Reloy3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reloy3)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/49 "2009-06-11T15:46:19Z")
George Clinton - Atomic Dog ---
**Author:** ![bellybean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@bellybean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bellybean)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/50 "2009-06-11T17:29:18Z")
> [@Beadalin](#): > > The Weakerthans: [Plea from a Cat Named Virtue](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFjzQnZZ8q8) And then, from Reunion Tour, there’s the follow up: V_irtue the Cat Explains Her Departure_. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/51 "2009-06-11T19:09:50Z")
I just heard Bjork’s “Human Behavior” for the first time (that’s one kick-ass song), but it struck me that it makes more sense coming from the POV of an (indeteriminate) animal than from a person (though the lyrics keep things vague one way or the other). ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/52 "2009-06-11T19:18:07Z")
I’m trying to remember a song, I think it’s a 40’s song, pretty silly. I hear a woman’s voice singing falsetto (or baby voice or whatever, something unnaturally high pitched) “yikes yikes I’ve lost my pretty stripes”, and that’s all. I tried to google around those words but had no pertinent hits. Pretty sure it’s a zebra singing. (yikes is sung in 2 syllables - eee-ikes) ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/53 "2009-06-11T19:26:57Z")
> [@Reloy3](#): > > George Clinton - Atomic Dog It is not exactly from the dog’s first-k9 p.o.v, but George Clinton also has an intersting and novel song about the every day sagas of a USCG/Customs drug sniffing dog. I found the song on napster a long time ago and even the lyrics were tough to find just now. So I don’t know how easy of a song it would be to track down, but a p.m. or email could help; just sayin’… **George Clinton** - [US Customs Coast Guard Dope Dog](http://dawgs.cf.huffingtonpost.com/) > [@](#): > > ROOF! Doin’ it doggy style – U.S. Customs Coast Guard Dope Dog – nicknamed “Buster,” like all dope-sniffin’ dogs he’s got a habit, trained to have to have it. Pick up the tracks of the traffiker, > And track ‘em like a rabbit up the coastline! Canine controlled substance retriever. > Receiver of the Golden Nose Award, for leadin’ ‘em to the cash, cashin’ in on the stash. Now he’s in line for his issue of the booty. Never do a line in the line of duty – He’s a dope dog! eta: the formating on that link is kind of weird, but the lyrics are on the left side the whole way down; not ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/54 "2009-06-11T19:35:23Z")
(sigh) …sure what the rest of the writing is on the right side. It seems GC did an entire album called [Dope Dogs](http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/albums_gcpfas/alb-dopedogsev.html) which I haven’t heard. It might be from that, but I think it is the writings of the site author. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/55 "2009-06-11T19:47:20Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > “I Wanna Be Like You”, sung to Mowgli by King Louie the Ape. > [@Sigmagirl](#): > > \*\*The Siamese Cat Song \*\*from _Lady and the Tramp_ Hmmm, what others might count? There’s plenty to choose from, technically, but the ones that could perhaps only be sung by animals: “Everybody Wants to be a Cat”, “Under the Sea”, “Hakuna Matata” and one more from _Jungle Book_ (“The Bare Necessities”). ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/56 "2009-06-11T20:02:53Z")
“The Bare Necessities” might as well be my theme song. also… “Bein’ Green” by Kermit the Frog “Wonderful Thing About Tiggers” by Tigger ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/57 "2009-06-11T20:54:06Z")
There’s Los Lobos’ _I Wanna Be Like You (The Monkey Song)_: \*I wanna be a man, a man cub And stroll right into town And be just like the other men I’m tired of humping around So, ooh-ooh-ooh, I wanna be just like you I wanna walk like you Talk like you too You see it’s true An ape like me Can learn to be human too \* ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/58 "2009-06-11T21:22:04Z")
> [@The\_Scrivener](#): > > 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…” In that vein I cite a Cramps song, even though “Human Fly” is technically sung only half from an animal’s point of view: _Well i’m a human fly it’s spelt F-L-Y I say buzz,buzz,buzz,and it’s just be’causez… I’m a human fly and i don’t know why I got ninety six tears in my ninety six eyes_ ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/59 "2009-06-11T23:36:05Z")
I am the walrus. ---
**Author:** ![tangerinepuppet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e0b2c6/32.png) [@tangerinepuppet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tangerinepuppet)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/60 "2012-08-01T23:10:02Z")
> [@maladroit](#): > > I’m trying to remember a song, I think it’s a 40’s song, pretty silly. I hear a woman’s voice singing falsetto (or baby voice or whatever, something unnaturally high pitched) “yikes yikes I’ve lost my pretty stripes”, and that’s all. I tried to google around those words but had no pertinent hits. Pretty sure it’s a zebra singing. > > (yikes is sung in 2 syllables - eee-ikes) It’s from a children’s record by the Hollywood Singers called Children’s Playtime Songs, or something like that. Beware though, they re-released the LP a few years later with the same cover and title with a bunch of different songs that weren’t nearly as cool as the tracks on the original. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447.md?page=4)