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Thread #173885   Message #4217221
Posted By: Joe Offer
14-Feb-25 - 05:30 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Everybody Wants To Be A Cat
Subject: ADD: Everybody Wants To Be A Cat
Everybody Wants To Be A Cat
(Al Rinker / Floyd Huddleston)

Well, little lady, let me elucidate here

Everybody wants to be a cat
Because a cat's the only cat
Who knows where it's at

Tell me, everybody's pickin' up on that feline beat
'Cause everything else is obsolete
A square with a horn makes you wish you weren't born
Every time he plays
But with a square in the act
You can set music back
To the cave man days, cha-cha-ba-dum-bo-day

I've heard some corny birds who who tried to sing
Still a cat's the only cat who knows how to swing
Who wants to dig a long-haired gig or stuff like that?
When everybody wants to be a cat
A square with a horn makes you wish you weren't born
Every time he plays
Oh, a rinky-tinky-tinky
With a square in the act you can set music back
To the cave man days
Oh, a rinky-tinky-tinky

Yes, everybody wants to be a cat
Because a cat's the only cat who knows where it's at
When playin' jazz you always has a welcome mat
'Cause everybody digs a swinging cat
Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat
Hallelujah!
Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat
Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat
Everybody, everybody

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Al Rinker / Floyd Huddleston
Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat lyrics © Walt Disney Music Company

Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat · Scatman Crothers · Phil Harris · Thurl Ravenscroft · Liz English
Songs From The Aristocats
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