Another fun one - also not able to find it in the DT....
JOHNNY DOOLAN'S CAT
As recorded by Burl Ives
You may have seen some wonders
But we'll bet our Sunday hat
You haven't seen as big a one
As Johnny Doolan's Cat.
You needn't contradict us.
If you do, you'll get us vexed,
For we know there's not an equal
In this world or in the next.
They say a cat has seven lives,
But this has many more;
Unto our certain knowledge,
It's already had a score.
They've often tried to drown it
Or to kill it with a knife
But all in vain, for Doolan's cat
Will not depart this life.
And it's still alive and prowling (meow)
Still alive and howling (Meow)
Still alive and growling (MEOW)
Is Johnny Doolan's Cat.
I will work out the tunes to both of these.
Johnny Doolan's Cat is from "Something to Sing About - The Personal Choices of America's Folk Singers" collected and arranged by Milton Okun, Choice of Burl Ives, The Macmillan Company, London, 1968, p40.
Version in DT (click)
Sheet music exists for:
JOHNNY DOOLAN’S CAT
Words by George Horncastle, music by John Cooke.
Published in London by Francis, Day & Hunter, 1890.
“Sung by Rhodes & Conley.”
First line: “You may have seen some wonders”
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