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Every Dog Has Its Day Lyrics
Well I've drunk to drown
On every ocean I've been
Lake Tanganyika
Where the crocodiles swim
Halifax, Nova Scotia
To Van Diemans land
Well I drank with the Sultan
Down the Suez canal
'Cause every dog has its day
Like every woman she gets her own way
And if there's a ship that sails tonight
I'll captain that too
just to be there with you
Well there was old Jerry Rooney
Who was mad as a mule
Spillblood Maloney
Had a head like one too
TThat night on the bridge
With my shovel in hand
Well he threatened to kill me
I'm sure he picked the wrong man
'Cause every dog has its day
Like every woman she gets her own way
And if there's a ship that sails tonight
I'll captain that too
just to be there with you
Well there was mutiny in Lagos
Aboard the mean ship Skandi
Ten or twelve days in prison
Till the bastards set me free
McCloskey, you're free
'Cause every dog has its day
Like every woman she gets her own way
And if there's a ship that sails tonight
I'll captain that too
just to be there with you
Now I love the sea
And she wants me back
So I'll leave this ol' harbor
With the wind at me back
Goodbye mother Theresa
I hope the kids settle down
I must head for the Chinas
Pray to God I don't drown
For every dog has its day
Like every woman she gets her own way
And if there's a ship that sails tonight
I'll captain that too
just to be there with you
On every ocean I've been
Lake Tanganyika
Where the crocodiles swim
Halifax, Nova Scotia
To Van Diemans land
Well I drank with the Sultan
Down the Suez canal
Like every woman she gets her own way
And if there's a ship that sails tonight
I'll captain that too
just to be there with you
Who was mad as a mule
Spillblood Maloney
Had a head like one too
TThat night on the bridge
With my shovel in hand
Well he threatened to kill me
I'm sure he picked the wrong man
Like every woman she gets her own way
And if there's a ship that sails tonight
I'll captain that too
just to be there with you
Aboard the mean ship Skandi
Ten or twelve days in prison
Till the bastards set me free
McCloskey, you're free
Like every woman she gets her own way
And if there's a ship that sails tonight
I'll captain that too
just to be there with you
And she wants me back
So I'll leave this ol' harbor
With the wind at me back
Goodbye mother Theresa
I hope the kids settle down
I must head for the Chinas
Pray to God I don't drown
Like every woman she gets her own way
And if there's a ship that sails tonight
I'll captain that too
just to be there with you
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this song sounds so awsome live. 10x better than cd.
this is a song about mutiniy aboard the ship that he was captaining. That is why he is spending the time in jail. That was the way it used to be with muntines. He talks about "her" and that is the ship. Not a person, Great song.
Well the part about the bridge makes sense now. good song.
I like this song a lot, but what I don't get is the lines of the chorus. They don't seem to be related at all. Every dog has its day means that even the dumbest/ugliest/unluckiest/[fill in bad attribute here] person will at one point get their minute of fame, or moment on top of the world. OK. Then "Like every woman she gets her own way". In the context of this song, that line has to refer to the sea. "She" often refers to ships, but not in the chorus. A ship never gets her own way, it's always the sea that has control. The sea always gets its way. But what does that have to do with "every dog has it's day", other than conveniently rhyming? Then the last line, I assume that "you" means the sea as well, but why would he switch from referring to the sea in third person in the second line, to second person in the last line? Is he in fact talking about two separate things? Or am I just trying to analyze it too much?
Mike, the lines of the chorus are actually pretty cool... "Every dog has its day Like every woman she gets her own way" Means that every dog will absolutely, definitely, get his day, and that fact is just as certain as the fact that every woman will eventually get her way. =)