# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**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:** [August 1, 2012, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/61 "2012-08-01T23:45:22Z")
Several by Flanders & Swann, most notably [The Hippo Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjnOj9O16_I) (the gnu song isn’t from the gnu’s POV, and the others aren’t so well known) ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/62 "2012-08-02T00:06:33Z")
Dixie the Tiny Dog by Peter Himmelman I’m a tiny dog named Dixie. I have small feet which pitter patter on the linoleum floor. You can hear my toenails in the middle of the night. My tag says I belong to the Johnsons but they don’t own me they just feed me, they just bought me one day. And in the middle of the day I sit in the sun and I hear young children call me a weiner-dog perhaps thats what I am - the dramatic term is dachshund and I like that. I’m thin and I’m proud, no one can make fun of me, I can slip through the bars of a prison if I were incarcerated but I don’t know what I would do wrong-my body yields no evil inclination. I’m a pure weiner dog. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/63 "2012-08-02T04:32:24Z")
> [@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…” Another XTC song partially from an animal’s POV: “Across This Antheap.” ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/64 "2012-08-02T05:05:30Z")
Well, “When You Wish Upon A Star” was sung by a cricket, does that count? ---
**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:** [August 2, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/65 "2012-08-02T17:38:14Z")
> [@stpauler](#): > > Dixie the Tiny Dog by Peter Himmelman [You don’t say.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11203463&postcount=16) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/66 "2012-11-30T05:29:06Z")
[“Stinker” by Elton John](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEkgKN0hoNU) is sung from the viewpoint of a burrowing rodent(!). ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/67 "2012-11-30T05:45:23Z")
“I’m a Fish”. By Roger Dale: Story of Jonah from the Whale’s POV. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/68 "2012-11-30T16:02:41Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Several by Flanders & Swann, most notably [The Hippo Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjnOj9O16_I) > > (the gnu song isn’t from the gnu’s POV, and the others aren’t so well known) I disagree. The choruses of [the Gnu song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqgPyqyh4X4) _are_ from the gnu’s point of view, as much or more so than most of the other examples in this thread. It is even largely in the first person: I’m a gnu, How do you do? I’m the gnicest work of gnature in the zoo… I nominate [I’m a Little Dinosaur](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6KSt1u_UE0) by Johnathan Richman. (Johnathan Richman was seriously weird.) ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/69 "2012-11-30T17:16:02Z")
_Olim Lacus Colueram_, from Orff’s Carmina Burana, is a lament sung by a roasted swan on a platter. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/70 "2012-11-30T17:29:38Z")
Here’s a major set of songs that has not yet been mentioned: [_Shinbone Alley._](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinbone_Alley) ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/71 "2012-11-30T18:30:59Z")
I AM CHEWBACCA!!! I AM A WOOKIE!!! I FIGHT THE EMPIRE!!! I FIX THE ROBOTS!!! DON’T FUCKING CROSS ME!!! I AM CHEWBACCA!!! IN NEED OF NO ONE!!! IN WANT OF NOTHING!!! By D.V.D.A. ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/72 "2012-11-30T19:21:28Z")
Pig by Weezer. Great song, and hard to tell if it’s rabidly pro or anti meat. I don’t care to find out as I prefer the ambiguity. MiM ---
**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:** [November 30, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/73 "2012-11-30T20:34:27Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > So what other songs are sung exclusively from an animal’s 1st person point of view? > [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > (the gnu song isn’t from the gnu’s POV) > [@njtt](#): > > I disagree. The choruses of [the Gnu song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqgPyqyh4X4) _are_ from the gnu’s point of view[/INDENT] I disagree with your disagreement. The song is told from the POV of a man visiting the zoo, who spoke to a gnu, and reports what the gnu said to him. It is, at least, not \*exclusively \*the animal’s POV ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mr.Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Me)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447/74 "2012-12-01T01:12:20Z")
[I’m A Kangaroo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlKfr_8mHTA) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-from-an-animals-pov/498447.md?page=3)