You’ll Be Sorry

You’ll Be Sorry
by John Forster & Tom Chapin
© 1992 Limousine Music Co. & The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)

Sit! Stay! No! Stop! Good dog.
Let’s take it from the top.

You can chase a squirrel that’s gray.
You won’t catch it anyway.
But don’t chase that squirrel that’s black
With the white stripe down its back.
D-D-Don’t chase that squirrel.
That’s not a squirrel.
And if you catch that squirrel
You’ll be sorry. Sorry.
If you catch that squirrel you’ll be sorry.

You can chase a blue-tail fly,
They’re hard to catch but try.
But that little fat galoot in the fuzzy yellow suit
D-D-Don’t chase that fly. That’s not a fly.
And if you catch that fly you’ll be sorry. Sorry.
If you catch that fly you’ll be sorry.

I talk and talk and talk until I’m blue.
Words don’t mean a thing to a dog like you.
A bee will sting.
A skunk will spray.
I guess a dog just has to learn the hard way…

You can chase an old groundhog,
That’s good fun for a dog.
But the ones with the long sharp spines,
Now those are porcupines.
D-D-Don’t catch that porc.
He’s a thousand points of fork.
And if you catch one fork you’ll be sorry. Sorry.
If you catch one fork you’ll be sorry.
Stay! Stop! No!

This song appears on Tom Chapin's Billy The Squid CD.

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