Songs about domestic pets

Subject: Songs about domestic pets
From:
Date: 25 Oct 96 - 06:36 PM

I'm trying to get together some folk songs about domestic pets. Does anybody have any ideas for titles?

Doug Jenner

[Some song titles in this thread have been converted to links by a Mudelf.]

Subject: RE: Songs about domestic pets
From:
Date: 25 Oct 96 - 07:42 PM

"THE NEIGHBOURS' CAT" by Leon Rosselson, a parody of "Just a closer walk with thee" about walking the dog (source unknown).

Subject: RE: Songs about domestic pets
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 25 Oct 96 - 09:43 PM

Well, for a start, you can do a full-text search for cat {and} dog Or just search for @animal

Subject: RE: Songs about domestic pets
From:
Date: 26 Oct 96 - 12:54 PM

Thanks Dick, I've done that. I'm trying to get specific 'pet' type songs, largely but not exclusively humorous- in the vein of Eric Bogle's "HE'S NOBODY'S MOGGY NOW" or Bernard Bolan's "BASINGSTOKE". With kind regards,

Doug Jenner

Subject: Lyr Add: F.A.P.: FELINE AMERICAN PRINCESS (Lackey)
From: Gary Jensen
Date: 21 Nov 96 - 11:01 AM

There's a song written by Mercedes Lackey and Leslie Fish, Copyright Firebird Arts and Music, Inc., probably, submitted without permission.


F.A.P. (FELINE AMERICAN PRINCESS)
As recorded by Mercedes Lackey on "Magic, Moondust, & Melancholy"

Aren't I kind to allow you to live in my house?
Aren't I gracious to grant you the use of my chair?
Aren't I wonderful when I give you a dead mouse?
Aren't I utterly, totally, beyond compare?
And don't you admire the virtues you see?
In marvelous, lovely, magnificent me--ow,
Me-e-e-ow-wow-wow, me-ow, me-e-e-ow.

I will carefully shed just selected dark hair
When I'm lying on all the white laundry you did;
And the white hairs will go when I bother to lair
On black velvet, where they can't be brushed off or hid.
They look so much better that way, you'll agree!
They'll remind you of lovely, magnificent me--ow,
Me-e-e-ow-wow-wow, me-ow, me-e-e-ow

If you try to insist that I live on dry food,
I will either look thin, and pathetic and sad,
Or I just might do something disgusting and rude,
Such as eat it, then throw up all over your bed.
Only chicken, and liver, and fish, naturally,
Are fit for the palate of marvelous me--ow,
Me-e-e-ow-wow-wow, me-ow, me-e-e-ow

I really don't understand why you should look
At anything else or have things in your hands,
So I'll patiently lie on your papers or book
To suggest that you treat me as my rank demands.
You really should pet me when your hands are free.
It's a privilege to fondle magnificent me--ow,
Me-e-e-ow-wow-wow, me-ow, me-e-e-ow

Or just when you're maddest at something I've done,
I'll go do something else that's so touching and sweet,
That's so charming, adorable, silly, or fun,
It'll just knock the stockings clean off of your feet.
You know you can't win, so why fight it, you see?
You know you're* a sucker* for marvelous me--ow,
Me-e-e-ow-wow-wow, me-ow, me-e-e-ow.
You know you're* a sucker9* for marvelous me!

- - - * Roll the R's to suggest a purr.

Subject: RE: Songs about domestic pets
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 21 Nov 96 - 07:37 PM

THere's always I'M GOING TO DROWN MY CAT.

And THE DOGS' PARTY a.k.a. THE DOGS' MEETING.

And THE CAT CAME BACK

And I'M LOOKING OVER MY DEAD DOG ROVER

Subject: RE: Songs about domestic pets
From: amy
Date: 22 Nov 96 - 04:29 AM

Try Jez Lowe's "ALOYSIUS" on the "Tenterhooks" CD (on Green Linnet)

Subject: RE: Songs about domestic pets
From:
Date: 12 Jan 97 - 10:56 PM

In case you all are still looking, How about "Nero My Dog Has Fleas" to the tune of Nearer My God To Thee.

There is also Jan Hobson's "THROW YOUR CAT AWAY". I have words to both somewhere if they are still wanted. In addition, Garrison Keillor has recorded an entire album called Songs Of The Cat which has too many parodies to list here. I can photocopy the lyrics to the original requester if they send me an e-mail

rich r

Subject: RE: Songs about domestic pets
From:
Date: 13 Jan 97 - 01:05 PM

What about "BINGO"? And Stephen Foster's "OLD DOG TRAY"? And "MY DOG'S BIGGER THAN YOUR DOG" (which is by either Tom Glazer or Tom Paxton, but not Tom Hood, and was later used in a Ken-L-Ration commercial)? And "OLD BLUE":

"I had an old dog

And his name was Blue,

And I bet you five dollars he's a good dog too.

Oh there's very few

Dogs like my Old Blue."

And let's not forget one that's not a folksong at all: "Ben", as performed by Michael Jackson.

Subject: RE: Songs about domestic pets
From: Bill
Date: 15 Jan 97 - 01:31 AM

Howdy,

Tom Paxton is the correct source for "My Dog's Bigger than Your Dog."

Allinkausay, Bill

Subject: Lyr Add: THROW YOUR CAT AWAY (Jan Hobson)^^^
From:
Date: 16 Jan 97 - 09:26 PM

THROW YOUR CAT AWAY
recorded by Jan Hobson and Her Bad Review

Your cat thinks he's worth a million bucks, but he's not even worth five cents.
A can of cat food costs more than that so throw your cat away.
Throw your cat away. Drop him in the trash.
You know he isn't worth five cents total, so throw your cat away.

Your cat has fleas but that is all. He hasn't got a brain.
He cannot bark or think or spell so throw your cat away.
Throw your cat away. He was just a bad investment.
Nobody wants him, not even you, so throw your cat away.

He wrecks the couch. He scratches your friends. He refuses to catch a mouse.
He's sure not expecting it, so grab him by the tail and throw your cat away.
Oh, throw your cat away. Flush him down the toilet.
Don't spend another dime to mask his smell, just throw your cat away.

He won't come when you call him. He won't eat his food. He just gags up his fur.
He barfs in the corner and looks real smug, so throw your cat away.
Oh, throw your cat away. Boot him down the steps.
Give all his toys to your faithful dog and throw your cat away.

He climbs up thing he can't get down. He messes up your cat box.
He has nine lives and that's too many, so throw your cat away.
Oh, throw your cat away. Don't give him time to pack.
He's not worth the fur he's printed on, so throw your cat away.
Oh, throw your cat away. It's very easy for you to do.
Just open the garbage and dump him in, and throw your cat away.



rich r

Subject: RE: Songs about domestic pets
From:
Date: 21 Jan 97 - 03:15 AM

I really love Data's "Ode to Spot" on Star Trek, Next Generation. I think it's good as a recitation, or perhaps as a Gregorian Chant?