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Little Ukrainian Dog
(To the tune loosely of Tom Petty's You Don't Know What It's Like)
Little dog
Sleeping under the porch
Wakes to find
His whole world scorched
Little dog
Finds the rest of the house gone
Looks around
Everything seems wrong
What's a little dog to do
But find a path
And see it through
Maybe his humans are over there
Maybe his humans are over here
Once the smoke is gone
Maybe things will be clear
To a little dog
Little dog
Hides in the woods
Sees men with tanks
Stealing goods
Little dog
Sees them shooting people where they stand
Sees tanks run over them
Pressing them into the land
Little dog
Finds a little girl in rags
She picks him up
Reads his tags
Little dog
Hears the tanks come
She holds him tight
And starts to run
Did the little dog
Make it or not
Is the little girl
More than a spot
I guess we'll never know
Putin's war isn't for show
We just watch while a democracy falls
Cause free nations don't have the balls
Of a little dog
Little dog
Sleeping under the porch
Wakes to find
His whole world scorched
Little dog
Finds the rest of the house gone
Looks around
Everything seems wrong
What's a little dog to do
But find a path
And see it through
Maybe his humans are over there
Maybe his humans are over here
Once the smoke is gone
Maybe things will be clear
To a little dog
Little dog
Hides in the woods
Sees men with tanks
Stealing goods
Little dog
Sees them shooting people where they stand
Sees tanks run over them
Pressing them into the land
Little dog
Finds a little girl in rags
She picks him up
Reads his tags
Little dog
Hears the tanks come
She holds him tight
And starts to run
Did the little dog
Make it or not
Is the little girl
More than a spot
I guess we'll never know
Putin's war isn't for show
We just watch while a democracy falls
Cause free nations don't have the balls
Of a little dog
Published 5th May 2022
Author's Note
I usually don't write to tunes, I let the words make the tunes, but this time the words insisted.
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25th Aug 2022 11:01am
I feel as though the poem should end after “only a spot”. That’s an effective line because it makes us reflect that the little girl may just be a spot of scorched earth on the landscape by now. The rest of the poem is just summatory politicising, telling us the message of the poem when that’s already there in what came before. Still, what came before is pretty good!
25th Aug 2022 11:07am
I'm glad you liked it.
Kinda thought the whole thing was political, but I know what you mean. Still, I needed the rest to follow the tune in my head.
Kinda thought the whole thing was political, but I know what you mean. Still, I needed the rest to follow the tune in my head.
