She didn't like Chicken but she wasn't no vegetarian
She didn't believe in God but she wasn't not Unitarian
She liked Robin Hood but she didn't like Maid Marion
dit dit dit dit dit dit dit dit ... Hot Dog"
The way it came out was Danny Katch said the first line, then I sang the first line and the first half of the second line. Danny finished the second line and started the third line. We finished the third line together. Then we got stumped and I said "well the you'd have something like dit dit dit dit dit dit dit dit ... Hot Dog"
to suggest a musical structure, but Danny didn't think we could improve on that. Three more verses came pretty easily, and that was that.
The song structure is fairly classic melody run following the minor pentatonic (i.e. the blues scale) in a I - IV - V progression
Nevertheless, there was something so hilarious and natural about it that the two girls who were there just rolled their eyes because they thought it was a "bit" which we had rehersed earlier. As if Danny ever needed to reherse!
Before I graduated, Danny and I were horried to find that Deadeye Dick had plagarized our concept. I suggested he sue and he suggested that I start the revolution. Actually, I'm making that last part up. Call it revisionist irony.
I forgot all about this song until, for some reason, I sang it for Noah. I think its his favorite song. Maybe it's just his favorite song by me. Noah, whenever you get married, I'll sing it at your rehersal dinner. Actually... maybe that's not such a great idea.
Anyhow, whenever Dakota is watching "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse" and I hear TMBG sing Hot Dog, I get a little freaked out.
