Day In a Dog's Life Lyrics

Will he have gifts for me

Like a stack of sweet sardines

Right out the hand

Howling at him from across the jetty

For I could recognise his boat a hundred miles away

His basket seems so empty

Another grim season it's been

And he seems tired for he rubs his eyes

And he pats my back to calm me

My master is back from the open seas

And I run like the wind to greet him

But he's down on his knees

He hasn't got a gift for me but

It's not the fish that I want

Just my master back on land with me

He'll be half-blind from the heavy sun

Have to double check it's me his only child

I'll know it's him from the crooked back

And that ever twisting brow under his tilted cap

I've been pacing in the harbour

I can sense those old boots getting near

I've been barking at those taunting waves

To make stubborn days crawl the quicker

My masters back from the open seas

I run like the wind to greet him

But he's down on his knees

He didn't catch a fish for me

It's not the fish that I want

Just my master back home with me

The ocean's running empty

That's the rumour spread all round the port

I'm not worried for I'll beg some scraps

From the kids drinking beers on the docks

My master is back from the empty seas

And I run like the wind to greet him

But he's down on his knees

Hangs his head

He can't look at me

But there's nothing that beats

Having master back on land with me