From the recording Austin City Limits Live from Timbuk3
pat mAcdonald - vocal, guitar, bass, drum programming, dog samples
Barbara K - vocal, guitar
Lyrics
Sitting in a living room in a condo
Gazmo's on the rug with little Cassy-O
Gazmo's gettin nervous
Cassy wants to sample the dog.
She says:
"Bark, howl, do what you like
But if you're going to growl,
just growl into the mike
We're gonna play a game
called sample the dog"
Sample the dog...
There's a new age family
out in North Carolina
A dog named Jamaica,
a daughter named China
A son who plays in a band
called Sample the Dog
Third world music on the stereo
Dust on the keys of the piano
& China's in the kitchen
tryin to sample the dog
Sample the dog...
Now Cassy can't read
& China can't write
& the Board of Education
mumbles in the night
A prayer for our nation:
"Lord let us Sample the dog..."
The exact same thing is happenin today
In a million homes across the USA
Everybody’d doin it,
tryin to sample the dog.