| Paper fans in sweaty hands
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| Shooing flies away
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| Reflections on a porch
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| A shelter from the scorch
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| When dog days came around
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| Babies squalled as August crawled
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| Past old folks in the shade
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| The weather vane was stuck
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| And white oak creek would drop
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| When dog days came around
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| The dog days were scorchers
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| Southern torture
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| But we found an answer to the plight
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| It was a dog day’s night
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| Evening brings a front porch scene
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| But time to rest your bones
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| And pray you won’t be here
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| Come this time next year
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| When dog old days come along
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| The dog days were scorchers
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| Southern torture
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| But we found an answer to the plight
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| It was a dog day’s night
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| The dog days were scorchers
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| Southern torture
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| But we found an answer to the plight
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| It was a dog day’s night
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| Oh, yeah, more dog days oh, yeah |