GOODBYE 2009

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The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
By La Belle Rouge


What a year, oh what a year!
We ran out of chew bones
and wee wee pads, My Dear
They said the housing market
and Wall Street both fell
but we were looting dumpsters
and just too busy to tell

What a year for all us dogs
No steak bones to chew on
No more feasting like hogs
Spent the whole damn year
wearing an old ragged sweater
Wishing fortunes would get better

The dog house roof leaked
and we all got sick and wet
No health insurance, No vet
When thinking it won’t get worse
Uncle Rover gets run over
by a pimped out Caddie hearse

Illustrious Bo, the presidential pet
eats treats from a bottomless jar
He gets to live in the White House
while we’re domiciled in a junk car
No college tuition, no transportation
It’s obvious we won’t go too far

With terror threats and two wars
and all those huge political fights
even average joe, god-fearing dogs
are having some sleepless nights
At least we can’t afford a TV
so the evening news we can't see

So exhausted it’s hard to breathe
hope those crooked politicians
have something better up their sleeve
No access to whiskey or illegal dope
stressed mutts with dragging tails
we’ve almost lost all our hope

Rhinestone collars lost their gems
People send us to animal shelters
on little more than their whims
What a year… thank God it’s done
and what we wouldn’t give for
a Milk Bone….just one!



12/30/2009 La Belle Rouge


Music "Don't Worry Be Happy"