Me and You and a Dog Named Boo - Lobo (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Me and You and a Dog Named Boo (Lobo, 1971). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-06-20. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"

"Me and You and a Dog Named Boo," written by Lobo (born Roland Kent LaVoie), was Lobo's first release and first top 10 hit rising to the no. 5 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1971 (Whitburn, 2013). Has Lobo was writing the song, the original title and phrase was "You and Me;" however, Lobo stated: "'me and you' would have been easier, but I was trying to do it with proper grammar. I couldn't find anything to rhyme that fit what I wanted to say in the song. Finally, after I got back home to Florida, I decided to turn the phrase around to 'me and you.' I was thinking about it, sitting in a room . . . My big German shepherd dog: Boo, came running around the corner and looked in at me. I said: 'Well, now, that's kinda freaky. How about putting 'a dog named Boo' into the song?' That's literally how it came about" (songfacts, 2022). Lobo had a total of 8 top 40 hits in the 1970s with three of them reaching the top 10 "Me and You. . . ," "I'd Love You To Want Me" and "Don't expect Me To Be Your Friend" (Whitburn, 2013).

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Lyrics:

I remember to this day
The bright red Georgia clay
And how it stuck to the tires
After the summer rain
Will power made that old car go
A woman's mind told me that so
Oh how I wish
We were back on the road again

Me and you and a dog named boo
Travelin' and livin' off the land
Me and you and a dog named boo
How I love being a free man

I can still recall
The wheat fields of St. Paul
And the morning we got caught
Robbing from an old hen
Old McDonald he made us work
But then he paid us for what it was worth
Another tank of gas
And back on the road again

I'll never forget the day
We motored stately into big L.A.
The lights of the city put settlin'
Down in my brain
Though it's only been a month or so
That old car's buggin' us to go
We've gotta get away and get back on
The road again