I’m a bullfrog sitting on a log
Watching them flies like a bone to a dog
Hey yup the sun done coming up
bait, pole and a coffee cup
It’s alright if the fish don’t bite
I can sit here all day all night come on
Ain’t nothing no
Ain’t nothing gonna bring me down
Cause I got a feeling and it sure feels good [x2]
I’m a stray cat waiting out back
Somebody tell me where the party’s at
Hey now the sun done going down
Time to wake up this sleepy town
It’s shine time gimmie that high
Pass me some of that apple pie come on
Ain’t nothing no
Ain’t nothing gonna bring me down
Cause I got a feeling and it sure feels good [x2]
Don’t it y’all I got a feeling
I got a feeling I’m ready to roll
How bout a little back road dosie doe
yeah I’m good to go
I got a feeling I wanna spread it around
Spread a little love ride that buzz
ain’t nothing gonna bring me down, yea, yea
Tell me tell me, are you are you feeling it too
It’s gonna be a good night, yeah it’s gonna be a good night [x4]
I got a feeling and it sure feels good [x2]
Analysis
1. The Subject of the song
The poem is about a man who wants to have a quite and sleepy town to have a party and to have fun.
2. The poems Narrator
Tim Hicks (the singer)
He is speaking to a small town
The setting is within a small town
3. Diction word of the poet
There are no unfamiliar words in the poems and there are no cliches
Words with a further meaning:
“The sun done going down” Shows how it is night and party should start.
4.Tone of the Poem
The song is not very serious because it is all about changing a quite town into a massive party and about having fun.
The tone does not change within the poem it stays the same throughout.
Some phrases that set the tone are,
“Somebody tell me where the party’s at”
“it’s time to wake up this sleepy town”
They both show how the narrator is trying to party and not be serious.
5. Rhythmical devices used
The lines are on average 6-8 words long and the stanzas being 3-8 lines long.
The end rhyme scheme is AABBCDE in the longer stanzas.
The poem is more of a closed poem but there is some parts that seem more like an open poem.
6. literary devices
Simile- “Watching them flies like a bone to a dog ” is the only simile that is in this song
Metaphor- There are a few metaphors in this song one of them “I’m a bullfrog sitting on a log”
Assonance- There are multiple places with assonance one being “bone to a dog” with the “o” sound being repeated.
The title fits the song very well for it being about him having a feeling that a party will happen and it talks about that throughout the song.
7.determine the values
The poem does succeed in recreating his experience of getting parties started and it gets the listener excited.
He also makes the reader feel the party feeling somewhat intentsely.
Although the poem does not sharpen your awareness of something significant being that it is only about people partying.
