International Songwriting Competition Semi-Finalist Song (2021)!!@!

Sometimes I Want to Be a Dog
By Cowboy Billy Herron

(Cowboy sends many thanks to the great Brent Funkhouser for backing vocals and piano.  Check out Brent's music at brentfunkhouser.com and all streaming platforms.)

Sometimes I want to be a dog
Lay around the house all day, like a lump upon a log.
Go out in the yard to pee, it really ain’t that hard to see
Why a dog’s life … that’s the life for me.

Sometimes I want to be a dog.
Forget the way you left me and treated me so wrong.
Not think about you all the time, go sniff another dog’s behind.
A dog’s life yeah that’s the life for me.

Oh, I want to be a dog.
Nothing to do, nowhere to go, no one to lead me on.
Turn my tail on memories of you and all we done.  
Sometimes I want to be a dog. 

Oh lord, please let me be a dog.
Wouldn’t have to work or watch the clock.
I’d curl up in my little round bed, oblivious to those words you said.
A dog's life, that's the life for me.

Oh, I want to be a dog.
Nothing to do, nowhere to go, no one to lead me on.
Lift my leg on memories of you and all we done.  
Sometimes I want to be a dog. 

A doggie’s life is easy. A doggie’s life is free.
A doggie’s got no worries except for the occasional flea.  
In a doggie’s life the fact you’re gone wouldn’t mean a thing to me.
Sometimes I want to be a dog.

Wouldn't it be nice to be a dog.
Chase a ball and go out for a walk.
And if you come to visit my owner, you wouldn’t know it was me.
And I’d jump up and hump your leg and be as happy as I could be.  
Yeah, I’d jump up and hump your leg and be as happy as I could be.  

Oh God, please let me be a dog.

Sometimes I Want to Be a Dog (A Cowboy Billy Herron Original)

Put on your stockings babe cause the night's gettin' cold.

Atlantic City (Bruce Springsteen) - Cover by Cowboy Billy Herron

Thinkin' about what a friend had said ...

After The Gold Rush (Neil Young) - Cover by Cowboy Billy Herron

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USA Songwriting Competition Finalist Song (2019)!!!@!

The Reefer Song
By Cowboy Billy Herron

My friends all like to do reefer
They think it’s lots of fun.
They laugh and joke with every toke.
They ain’t hurtin’ anyone.

But when they pass a joint to me,
I have to wave it away. 
I feel bad because I'm kinda harshin’ their buzz, 
But this is what I say ...

It makes me stupid as a stump.
Horny as a hound.
Woozy as a worm that’s a-wigglin’ on the ground.  
Giggly as a girl gettin' tickled up and down.
That’s what reefer does to me. 
Yeah that’s what reefer does to me.  

Now I know it’s getting legal
In a growing number of states.
Across the nation there’s a population 
Who think it’s really great.

But when it comes to can-na-bis
I have to say, “I can-not.”
'Cause when I do weed I’m guaranteed
To get dimmer than a 15-watt.   

It makes me stupid as a stump.
Horny as a hound.
Woozy as a worm that’s a-wigglin’ on the ground.  
Giggly as a girl gettin' tickled up and down.
That’s what reefer does to me. 
Yeah that’s what reefer does to me.  

Ain’t like like I never smoked it.
I had my share back when.
But then one day I got carried away.
Smoked a whole dime bag with a friend.

When I went home I was in my room
And things started getting weird.
My Neil Young poster started talking to me.
And I got really scared.

I went outside, walked down the street.
And everyone was staring at me.
Cars hit the brakes for to see me baked.
So I hid behind a tree. 

Then a psychedelic squirrel came up to me.
And he looked me in the eye. 
He shook his little head, and then he said,
"Dude, you are really high."

So I ran back to my house again.
And I didn’t know what to do,
I went to the kitchen 'cause my belly was itchin’
For some junky no-good food.

I decided to cook three hot dogs
And I smothered them with Nutella.
My Mom, she caught me in the act.
She said, “What’s going on there, fella.”

The kitchen was a mess, my Mom was mad.
So I just went to sleep.
That’s the last time I smoked pot my friends.
'Cause of what it does to me.  

It makes me stupid as a stump.
Horny as a hound.
Woozy as a worm that’s a-wigglin’ on the ground.  
Giggly as a girl gettin' tickled up and down.
That’s what reefer does to me.  
Yeah that’s what reefer does to me.

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The Reefer Song (A Cowboy Billy Herron Original)

Friend Of The Devil (Grateful Dead) - Cover by Cowboy Billy Herron

USA Songwriting Competition Finalist and International Songwriting Competition Semi-Finalist ... someday I'll win one of these f@#kers.

Singer/Songwriter/Multi-instrumentalist ... I have two guitars.

International Songwriting Competition Semi-Finalist (2021) for "Sometimes I Want to Be a Dog."

USA Songwriting Competition Finalist (2019) for "The Reefer Song." (Not sure what they were smokin'!)

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