You’re a Minnesota Dog Now

words and music ©1974 by Howard Ashby Kranz

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1. Rex was always my dog in the Colorado hills

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That is what I thought he’d always be.

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But when he saw the lakeland, he went bolting like the breeze

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I saw that his life don’t belong to me.

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Chorus: You’re a Minnesota dog now,

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like that cold north wind that fills my heart and it cuts me like a plow.

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When you get back to the Rockies, won’t you give my door a scratch;

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you’ve got two homes now, and one’s the one where I hold the latch.

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2. You just stood there laughing, then you took me by the hand.

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We watched as Rexie swam the skyblue stream.

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He drank the Mississippi, and he chased a firefly

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and things were real to him that I just dreamed.

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Chorus: He’s a Minnesota dog now,

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like that cold north wind that fills my heart and it cuts me like a plow.

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When you get back to the Rockies, won’t you give my door a scratch;

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you’ve got two homes now, and one’s the one where I hold the latch.

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3. We had to go two ways; Rex could only follow one.

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When we shook hands, he begged me not to cling.

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He said, “We live so few lives, that you have to be a fool

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to waste a whole one being just one thing.”

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Chorus: You’re a Minnesota dog now,

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like that cold north wind that fills my heart and it cuts me like a plow.

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When you get back to the Rockies, you don’t even have to knock;

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you’ve got two keys now, and home’s where either one fits the lock..