"Bird Dog" is a song written by Boudleaux Bryant and recorded by the Everly Brothers.

1 hit on the Billboard Country Chart for six weeks.

Billboard Hot 100 (stalled behind Domenico Modugno's "Nel blu, dipinto di Blu (Volare)" and Tommy Edwards' "It's All in the Game"), as well as peaking at no.

[6] The song deals with the singer's dismay that a boy, by the name of Johnny, is trying to take his girlfriend away.

The singer calls him a bird dog as a result of his behavior.