Jun 23, 2026

Don't Need No Hate

IN DOG's COUNTRY album cover

From the album In Dog's Country
Words and music by Billy Dechand
© 2007 Bucktooth Music (ASCAP)

In Dog's Country is a musical about two dogs, a cat, a squirrel, and The Man. In this song, the younger, more innocent dog, Jake, stands up to the more jaded, older dog Mal.

Lyrics:

Step away Mal
Unhand my man now
I got it straight, figured out now

Don’t need no hate
That’s not our fate

That man’s a boy
Done you no wrong
Don’t take your misguided war, don’t make it last too long

Don’t need no hate
That’s not our fate

Misplaced blame is a fool’s game
Mostly of blame is kinda lame
If you can make things better, don’t complain
Make that your fate and choose to change

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Jun 21, 2026

Billy's Books 102: With Wings Like Eagles

With Wings Like Eagles, by Michael Korda, is yet another history book about World War II. There's more Winston Churchill to be quoted! The Battle of Britain is the summer and fall of 1940, when Germany started its bombing campaign. This does not cover The Blitz.

Thanks to the Saint Louis Public Library. Support your local library!

Jun 20, 2026

Doggie Duet

IN DOG's COUNTRY album coverFrom the album In Dog's Country
Words and music by Billy Dechand
© 2007 Bucktooth Music (ASCAP)

In Dog's Country is a musical about two dogs, a cat, a squirrel, and The Man. This song is between the younger, more innocent dog, Jake, and the more jaded, older dog Mal, sung by Ruth Keating Lockwood.

Jake:
I'm just a dog without any plan
Domesticated, taken care of, by The Man

Mal:
I'm a dog too, but I've got a plan
Gotta break from these chains
And maybe break the back of The Man

Jake:
I'm just a fool, I love my old man
Wherever he goes, I'll go there too

Mal:
Noooo... I ain't no fool
No slave to The Man
It's make or break for me
And the rules of The Man

HOWL CHORUS:

Jake:
There goes my man
He does what he can
I'll be his friend till the end

Mal:
I'm your true friend
What friend is The Man
Who keeps animals captive:
Cold, alone, and untended

HOWL CHORUS

Chords:

VERSES:
C G C G C G D Bm
G C G C G C D B7

HOWL CHORUS:
E7 Em E7 Em D Dm F#m G A7 A7

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Jun 18, 2026

Do What You Do (Don't What You Won't)

UP album cover

From the album UP
Words & music by Billy Dechand & Matthew Schickele
© 2021 Bucktooth Music (ASCAP)

Don't got to be easy
Don't got to be hard
It might not be crazy
May not make sense

If ever a reason enters your head
Whatever you need, it's gotta be

So be what you see
See what to be
Do what you do
Don't what you won't
I don't know what people say
Save it for another day

Approach, destroy
Enhance, avoid
Whether 'tis nobler 
To sit or get out the way
Hikers follow the stars
Wherever you lead, you gotta be

Be what you see
You'll see what to be 
Do what you do
Don't what you won't

I don't care what people say
It's just a lot of nothing but a hey hey

Be what you see
See what to be
Do what you do
Don't what you won't

People go, people stay
What people do, I don't wanna see

So do what you want
Use what you got
Do what you got to do

I don't care what people say
It's just a lot of nothing but a hey hey

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Chihuahua

Innocent Sin
From the album Innocent Sin
Words and music by Billy Dechand
© 2015 Bucktooth Music (ASCAP)

Chihuahua, Chihuahua
Chihuahua

Little doggy, little dog

Chihuahua...

Performers:
  1. Susan Kopp - voice
  2. Kate Lovelady - voice
  3. Jim Warchol - drums
  4. Billy Dechand - voice, guitar, bass, keyboards

Jun 16, 2026

Calling

Pop Another CorkFrom the album Pop Another Cork
Words by Kate Lovelady, music by Billy Dechand
© 1997 Bucktooth Music (ASCAP)

A lasting kiss, a longing fall, a rusting tree crumbles;
No yellowed charm, no naked scare, no golden
Light recalls a friend
And so we move along

A certain sound, regretful crunch, a frightened ground shifting;
It's just the wind, it fluffs the bed, tonight
We're glad at last to sleep
And then, and then the brighter days

We'll come calling
Calls fall clear through
Still we're always calling
Calls come clear through cold air

A flash of snow, the river breaks, engines worry homeward;
The earth stripped clean, the blankets fall, burrow
In your skin, your joy
Starry as it is

We'll come calling
Calls fall clear through
Still we're always calling
Calls come clear through cold air

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