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Stand By Your Bowl/Stand By Your Man - and why aren’t you standing with your men? (or, Tammy Wynette on the limitations of monogamy)

Oct 29 at 12:12am by wilkins

Stand By Your Bowl

by Greta Christina

Sometimes it’s hard to be a kitty
Gettin’ all your food from just one bowl
You’ll have wet food, you’ll have dry food
With mealtimes that you can’t control.

But if you’re hungry, you’ll keep howling
Trying to make those monkeys understand
And if you’re howling, and if you’re yowling
Maybe they’ll open up the can.

Stand by your bowl, make sure it’s full of kibble
With tasty things to nibble
When there’s no lap to sit on
Stand by your bowl, and show the world you’re hungry
Keep eating all that you can hold
Stand by your bowl.

Copyright 2003 Greta Christina. From Greta Christina’s Song Parodies.

Which brings us to the original hit - and its opening lines: you don’t need numerology, cryptography or steganography to get the point: for a woman - one man isn’t quite enough.

The Original Lyrics

The first couplet of Tammy Wynette’s hit single, “Stand By Your Man”

Sometimes its hard to be a woman
Giving all your love to just one man (emphasis supplied)

Complete lyrics here. Feel free - the rest is - in effect - since we’ve established that you can only have one, remember they’re insecure and need a lot of attention.