Digital Program

Original Music inspired by Dav Pilkey’s Dogman

The Bushwick Book Club Seattle
presents
Original Music Inspired by
Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man
February 10, 2024
at Fremont Abbey Arts Center

Hosted by Emily Persha

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Featuring Musical Performances from
(Click name for primary link, * = first Bushwick appearance, ^ = lyrics included below)
Rights to all song lyrics ©/℗ the individual artists, reprinted here with permission

Vince Martinez
Bandcamp

  The Half Brothers^
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jean mann
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  Levi Fuller^
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  Sheryl Wiser^
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Mitchell Beck
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Elle Vergara

  Alexander Standish*

Sean Morse
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  Megan Krantz & George Quarles^
YouTube   Spotify

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Original Music Inspired by Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man

PERFORMER-PROVIDED LYRICS
Rights to all song lyrics ©/℗ the individual artists, reprinted here—exactly as submitted—with permission

The Half Brothers
Supa Buddies

Supa buddies – we’re bustin’ up crime in your neighborhood

Supa buddies – we ain’t too perfect but we’re awfully good

Supa buddies – L’il Petey, Dog Man and 80-HD

Supa buddies – doin’ battle with Claymation Philly

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Supa buddies, here we come

Evildoers better run

We fight for freedom – that’s our duty  (heh, heh, you said doodie)

So everybody shake your booty!

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Baby baby baby shake your big booty shake your big booty now!

Baby baby baby shake your big booty shake your big booty now!

Shake your booty supa buddies

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Petey’s Lament

It’s not easy being evil all the time

It’s not easy being evil all the time when you’ve got kids

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Ding Dong Magoo

Well if you ever make a movie of my life

Tell you what I’d like you to do

When you’re casting the role of yours truly

Won’t you please hire Ding Dong Magoo?

Ding Dong Magoo

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Ding Dong Magoo will portray me

Yolay Caprese’s gonna play you

Don’t want Scooter McRib, don’t like the cut of his jib

Just Ding Dong and Yolay for me and you

Ding Dong Magoo

Ding Dong Magoo

Ding Dong Magoo

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Living Spray

Oh I…. I love it when buildings

come to life

‘cause that’s when you know

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  Someone somewhere

broke into the warehouse

and stole a can of

Living Spray

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Oh I… know that one day (don’t know when)

I am going to die

But maybe

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Someone somewhere

can break into the warehouse

and steal a can of

Living Spray

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It’s not just the bad guys, who want to break the rules

It’s fathers who had their kids too late

and wanna be around to watch ‘em grow up and go off to school

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So I… wish that buildings

could come to life

‘cause then I would know

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that someone somewhere

could break into a warehouse

and steal me a can of

Living Spray

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Levi Fuller

It was all so easy when I was just a villain

I knew who I was and what I was against.

I’d execute some wild plan born in my twisted brain

I’d get nabbed and thrown in jail, escape and start again.

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It was all so easy when I was on my own

I knew what I stood for, me and no one else

I made another me to do my evil work

I made a baby me who wasn’t such a jerk

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I can’t do this anymore

(Why?)

It’s all just too difficult

(Why?)

People are so mean to me

(Why?)

I wish I knew

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Something changed, I must admit, the world lost its contrast

I tried not doing wrong but couldn’t get it right

And when I did no one believed; they saw me as I’d been.

And who could blame them? Why would they believe I’d changed within?

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No one ever said it would be hard just being good

And the road to good intentions is mostly paved with doubt

This tiny me has made me want the things I never had

Friends instead of enemies, and good instead of bad.

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I can’t do this anymore

(Why?)

It’s all just too difficult

(Why?)

People are so mean to me

(Why?)

I wish I knew

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So now I know I can’t do right in many people’s eyes

Now I know I’ll never be the hero

But still the chance I’ll turn and walk away from all of you

Is closer every day to being zero

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So now I know I can’t do right in many people’s eyes

Now I know I’ll never be the hero

But still the chance I’ll turn and walk away from all of you

Is closer every day to being zero

Sheryl Wiser
Petey’s Blues

Everybody knows

You’re trouble where you go

Everybody knows it’s true

You’re running these streets

Full of schemes and deceit

You’re as mean as mean could be

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You’re a liar, you’re a cheat,

a bully and a thief

Cat-a-strophic with a Capital C

And everybody sees

You’re as mean as mean could be
How’d you get to be you?

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Chorus

How’d you get to be, How’d you get to be,

How’d you get to be you?

Did it hurt, was it cruel

When they played you for the fool

Turned your world upside down

Turned your world upside down

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You’re a stinker In the clinker

In trouble up to your whiskers

You’re as bad as bad could be

There’s a darkness in your heart

Tearing your apart

What’s it gonna take to get free

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Upend your limitations

Transcend your complications

Embrace your relations

Cause love is an ocean, a mighty might ocean

That will heal what’s broken

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Chorus

How’d you get to be, How’d you get to be

How’d you get to be you

Are you scared to care,

Go the distance for repair

And turn that frown upside down

Turn that frown upside down

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Megan Krantz & George Quarles
Dog Man Unleashed

Verse 1

You can’t hate him

You gotta love him

He doesn’t get it

Yet somehow he’ll get it

When you feed him

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Show up to the crime

Dog Man is on the case

Ignore all the hostages

(Instead) let’s eat some birthday CAKE

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Chorus

Feed him lines

Throw him a bone

Remind him that he is a dog alone

and also a dog man

There’s no one like him

Not many like him

Dog Man

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Verse 2

You can’t lose him

But you’ve gotta search for him

Double Kitty, Brain Fish, Dino Bones

Don’t let their plots take wind

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Dog man’s got no plan

But help is on the way

Petey better run and hide

From love potions and living spray

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Bridge

Don’t buy a dead fish

Don’t forget you’re a dog (wink wink)

Only you like a dead fish

You’re a human with a dog head, I think

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