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Artist: Pete Townshend
Canonical path: /pete-townshend/sleeping-dog
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Sleeping Dog
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Sleeping Dog
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Sleeping dog by the open fire,
you're sleeping your life away;
you don't know how far you've got to go
or the trouble that you'll have to face.
If all I can do is love you,
provide you with some fun and food.
All I can do is love you,
and that is what I do.
Sleeping children laying in your beds,
tomorrow you'll be back at school.
You look so young, but you've come so far.
You'll never be any souls' fool.
All I can do is love you,
provide you with some fun and food.
All I can do is love you,
and that is what I do.
All I can do is love you,
provide you with some fun and food.
All I can do is love you,
and that is what I do.
Now I'm going up to my wife;
Baba, I pray to you.
Love me just a little like I love them,
and I can do some sleeping, too.
All I can do is love you,
provide you with a song.
All I can do is love you
like you've been loving me all along.
All I can do is love you,
provide you with a verse or two.
All I can do is love you,
and that is what I do.
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Pete Townshend performs "Sleeping Dog", and this lyric page sits inside the Pete Townshend catalog on LyroVerse.
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