
"You Can't Keep a Good Dog Down" is the opening song of All Dogs Go To Heaven. It is sung by Charlie and Itchy to a group of craps playing dogs.
Lyrics:[]
[Intro]
[Charlie, spoken]
Why settle for a couple of bones when you can have the whole bank?
Ha ha ha ha ha!
[Itchy, spoken]
Hey, Charlie!
Charlie, look!
You hit the jackpot!
Oh ho ho
Atta boy, Charlie, I'm proud o' ya!
Charlie, tell 'em!
[Verse 1]
(sung)
Charlie: Oh, you can’t keep a good dog down
Itchy: No sir!
Charlie: No, you can’t keep a good dog down
I’ve seen pain and hurt
Itchy: That's right
Charlie: I’ve eaten dirt
Itchy: That's true
Charlie: It’s hard to buy but even I've been jilted by a skirt!
Itchy: He lies!
Charlie: But look, pal, I’m still around
Itchy: Haha!
Charlie: Cause you can’t keep a good dog down!
[Chorus]
Itchy: Ya can’t keep a good dog down
Charlie: No you can’t!
Itchy: No no no no, you can’t keep a good dog down
Charlie: I’ve been bought and sold
Itchy: He’s been warm and cold
Charlie: But 10 to 1 I’ll still be runnin’ rackets when I’m old
Itchy: Not in some cage in the city pound
Charlie B. Barkin, & Itchy: 'Cause ya can’t keep a good dog
Can’t keep a good
I say ya can’t keep a good dog down
[Verse 2]
Itchy: In him’s the luck of the Irish
Charlie: The pride of the German
Itchy: And even, haha, a bit of Siam
Charlie: Siam? You see the come of the English
Itchy: The charm of the Spanish
Charlie: A pedigree a-certainly ain’t what I am!
So call me a mixed up pup
Itchy: You’re a mixed up pup
Charlie: Haha!
But the only way this pup knows is up!
[Itchy, spoken]
OK, boys! C'mon!
Help me get 'im!
You get his leg
Lift 'im up! C'mon!
Didn't'cha hear the man?
Up! Up! Up!
C'mon!
[Chorus]
(sung)
[CHARLIE & DOGS & All ANIMAlS]
🎶Oh, ya can’t keep a good dog down🎶
(Bow wow wow wow!)
You can’t keep a good dog down
(Bow wow wow wow!)
Itchy: He’s been fat and thin
Charlie: I’ve been out and in
Itchy: He tried a life of virtue
Charlie: But prefer a life of sin!
So tonight, man, we own this town
I’ve known hunger, I’ve known thirst
Lived the best and seen the worst
But the only way I know to finish is to finish first!
[CHARLIE & DOGS & All ANIMAlS ]
So watch out when you hear this sound!
(all of the DOGS howl uproariously)
[CHARLIE & DOGS & ITCHY & All ANIMAlS]
'Cause you can’t keep a good dog
No, ya can’t keep a good
I say you can’t keep a good dog down
You can’t keep a good dog down!
Trivia[]
The song was also included in "MGM Sing-Alongs: Having Fun" with onscreen lyrics and a bone as a bouncing object.
All Dogs Go to Heaven |
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