Discussion: I Bought Me a Cat

Subject: Lyrics: I Bought Me A Cat
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Aug 00 - 11:42 PM

I am trying to find lyrics (sheet music or a MIDI file would be grand as well) for the American folk song, "I Bought Me A Cat." I know it is in the Old American Songs collection by Aaron Copland, but would like to use the tune on Monday and wouldn't be able to get my hands on it in time.

Thanks!

Subject: RE: Lyrics: I Bought Me A Cat
From: Dee45
Date: 26 Aug 00 - 11:46 PM

This wouldn't be it, would it?

Subject: RE: Lyrics: I Bought Me A Cat
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Aug 00 - 12:31 AM

For a quickie tune in bad format, see here, a ways down on the page if you can read abc format..sorry about the abc, I have since leaned better. PM me if you need better. Ah, you can't can you, since you are a Guest.......well, then, if you are really desperate, e mail me at sorchaout@hotmail.

Subject: RE: Lyrics: I Bought Me A Cat
From: CamiSu
Date: 27 Aug 00 - 12:33 AM

That's it, and it left out the last verse that Copeland left in...about bought me a wife. Do you know the tune, guest? If not holler.

Subject: RE: Lyrics: I Bought Me A Cat
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Aug 00 - 05:23 PM

Yes, I do know the tune. Site from Dee45 has lyrics a bit differently from the Copland, but definetly a help to jog the memory. Sorry I am bringing up something that has already been asked a few months ago! Have just found this site and have not been reading long.

Thanks! We'll see how well I can fake it on Monday...

Subject: I bought me a cat
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 04:23 PM

I'm looking for lyrics and music to the sng I bought me a cat. Thanks.

Subject: ADD: I bought me a cat^^
From: Justa Picker
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 04:45 PM

Bought Me a Cat

Bought me a cat and the cat pleased me,
I fed my cat under yonder tree.
Cat goes fiddle-i-fee.

Bought me a hen and the hen pleased me,
I fed my hen under yonder tree.
Hen goes chimmy-chuck, chimmy-chuck,
Cat goes fiddle-i-fee.

Bought me a duck and the duck pleased me,
I fed my duck under yonder tree.
Duck goes quack, quack,
Hen goes chimmy-chuck, chimmy-chuck,
Cat goes fiddle-i-fee.

Bought me a goose and the goose pleased me
I fed my goose under yonder tree.
Goose goes hissy, hissy,
Duck goes quack, quack,
Hen goes chimmy-chuck, chimmy-chuck,
Cat goes fiddle-i-fee.

Bought me a sheep and the sheep pleased me,
I fed my sheep under yonder tree.
Sheep goes baa, baa,
Goose goes hissy, hissy,
Duck goes quack, quack,
Hen goes chimmy-chuck, chimmy-chuck,
Cat goes fiddle-i-fee.

Bought me a pig and the pig pleased me,
I fed my pig under yonder tree.
Pig goes oink, oink,
Sheep goes baa, baa,
Goose goes hissy, hissy,
Duck goes quack, quack,
Hen goes chimmy-chuck, chimmy-chuck,
Cat goes fiddle-i-fee.

Bought me a cow and the cow pleased me,
I fed my cow under yonder tree.
Cow goes moo, moo,
Pig goes oink, oink,
Sheep goes baa, baa,
Goose goes hissy, hissy,
Duck goes quack, quack,
Hen goes chimmy-chuck, chimmy-chuck,
Cat goes fiddle-i-fee.

Bought me a horse and the horse pleased me,
I fed my horse under yonder tree.
Horse goes neigh, neigh,
Cow goes moo, moo,
Pig goes oink, oink,
Sheep goes baa, baa,
Goose goes hissy, hissy,
Duck goes quack, quack,
Hen goes chimmy-chuck, chimmy-chuck,
Cat goes fiddle-i-fee.

Bought me a dog and the dog pleased me,
I fed my dog under yonder tree.
Dog goes bow-wow, bow-wow,
Horse goes neigh, neigh,
Cow goes moo, moo,
Pig goes oink, oink,
Sheep goes baa, baa,
Goose goes hissy, hissy,
Duck goes quack, quack,
Hen goes chimmy-chuck, chimmy-chuck,
Cat goes fiddle-i-fee.

^^

Subject: RE: I bought me a cat
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 04:58 PM

Say JP, got the Tab to that? (:<))

Spaw

Subject: RE: I bought me a cat
From: Justa Picker
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 05:01 PM

Hehehe......did you want the Travis, Atkins, Liona Boyd or Fielding arrangement? :-)

Subject: RE: I bought me a cat
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 05:05 PM

And here was me hoping you'd bought a real cat...

Subject: RE: I bought me a cat
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 05:36 PM

And here's me offering real cats and kittens for free.

Subject: RE: I bought me a cat
From: Gloredhel
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 06:50 PM

The Aaron Copeland arrangement of the song leaves out some of those verses and includes one more as the last:

I bought me a wife and my wife pleased me,

Fed my wife under yonder tree,

Wife goes "Honey, Honey" etc.

Subject: RE: I bought me a cat
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 06:53 PM

'Mudge and I just (a couple hours ago) became the proud, uh, not "owners" . . . of a pair of three year old black cats, Griffin and Sabine. Products of a broken home, needing to find a new home. They're beginning to get acquainted with the rest of our felinities. (Mortimer . . . and, amazingly, the shy feral girls have also been sighted.) Hope the transition/settling in process goes well!

Bat Goddess

Subject: RE: I bought me a cat
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 10:23 PM

For an alternate version, see I Had a Wee Cock. Is there a double entendre in here???

Also: I Had a Rooster -Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: I bought me a cat
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 10:36 PM

i like cats.john and hamsters as well.john

Subject: RE: I bought me a cat
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 11:37 PM

PS. I like all aminals exept turkeys.john

Subject: RE: I bought me a cat
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 11:47 PM

John, how about Wild Turkey? Happy Birthday. Thought you had gone off somewhere to sleep it off?

Subject: RE: I bought me a cat
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 11:59 PM

Blimey!! I actually DO play that Justa. Usta sing it in schools. Straight flat pickin "boom cha, boom cha", and like Pete Seeger (I learned it from his banjo book) would draw the animals on the blackboard....t'was fun. Simpler times.

Rick

Subject: RE: I bought me a cat
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 16 Sep 01 - 12:20 AM

Turkeys no good, soon I sllep.john

Subject: RE: I bought me a cat
From: selby
Date: 16 Sep 01 - 03:05 AM

Weve just got 2 six month old brothers (kittens)who don't like us mutch at the moment as they had their nuts nipped on Tueday.I drove them to the vets and they seem to hate me now. Keith

Subject: RE: I bought me a cat
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 Sep 01 - 03:07 AM

Put them to bed with John and let them all sleep it off........with black out curtains, of course..

Subject: RE: I bought me a cat
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 16 Sep 01 - 10:02 AM

Song very similar to The Watersons' "I Went to Market" (which mentions all the animals -- including the wife -- but not the cat). Is the tune similar?

(I'm trying to type one-handed -- Griffin is on my lap, head buried in mt left elbow, purring. Sabine is hiding out somewhere, watching.)

Linn

Subject: RE: I bought me a cat
From: Jeri
Date: 16 Sep 01 - 10:07 AM

...and in the version the Watersons do, the wife says "dammit."

Subject: RE: I bought me a cat
From: Cappuccino
Date: 16 Sep 01 - 11:22 AM

I've never actually bought a cat, but I distinctly remember being married to two. - IanB

Subject: RE: I bought me a cat
From: MAG
Date: 16 Sep 01 - 10:19 PM

Jean Ritchie version is the best ...