PUSSY CAT
Tom Glazer, Sunny Skylar
As sung by the Ames Brothers

Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat.

Well, I was born in a little old house in a town called Barrel Bay.
I was eight years old when I fell in love and it seems like yesterday.
Down the old mill road in a pretty house lived some folks not far from me,
And they had a child only one year old and a lovely babe to see.

CHORUS: They called her Pussy Cat, Puss, Puss, Pussy Cat, for her hair was soft and fine;
Pussycat, Puss, Puss, Pussy Cat, for her two big eyes would shine.
She had a smile so sweet and a great deal more than that,
And she'd coo and purr when I smiled at her
With a milky skin like silky fur,
My Puss, Puss, Puss, Puss, Pussy Cat.

Now, years went by and I grew quite tall for I shot up like a vine,
And I used to watch over Pussy Cat till she reached the age of nine.
Then I said goodbye for I left one morn, for a town in Ioway,
And I didn't see anyone I knew till I came back one fine day. CHORUS

Well, there she was like a pretty rose, and my goodness, how she'd grown.
But the sparkling eyes and the turned-up nose looked the same though years had flown.
Then I knew at once she belonged to me and I knew she felt the same,
So our lives were joined and our first new-born was a girl who bore her name. CHORUS

Puss, Puss, Puss, Puss, Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat.

[Sung by The Ames Brothers on "The Very Best of the Ames Brothers," 1998.]