Lyrics to
Walkin’ The Dog

This version of Walkin’ The Dog was released by Aerosmith in 1973.

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walkin’ the dog
I’m just a-walkin’ your dog
well if you don’t know how to do it
I’ll show you how to walk the dog
ask your mama for fifteen cents
to see the elephant jump the fence
it jumped so high, it touched the sky
didn’t come back till the fourth of July
mary mary, quite contrary
how does your garden grow
well well, silver bells, and little bitty bitty white shells
pretty maids all in a row

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Aerosmith has released many songs over the years besides Walkin’ The Dog. Aerosmith released songs from 1973 to 2004 spanning across albums like Aerosmith, Get Your Wings, Toys In The Attic, Rocks, Draw The Line, Night In The Ruts, Rock In A Hard Place, Done With Mirrors, Permanent Vacation, Pump, Get A Grip, Nine Lives, Just Push Play, and Honkin' On Bobo. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Aerosmith.

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About Lyrics and Walkin’ The Dog by Aerosmith

When you decide to study the lyrics to Walkin’ The Dog, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Aerosmith. Some of the lyrics to Walkin’ The Dog have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Aerosmith and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Walkin’ The Dog if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Walkin’ The Dog" means the words set to the music of Walkin’ The Dog, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Aerosmith. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Walkin’ The Dog and the lyrics to Walkin’ The Dog are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Aerosmith who came here looking just for the lyrics to Walkin’ The Dog, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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