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Favourite cat tunes and songs

Johnny J 03 Feb 25 - 08:12 AM
Beer 03 Feb 25 - 09:36 AM
GUEST,Peter Laban 03 Feb 25 - 09:45 AM
The Sandman 03 Feb 25 - 09:45 AM
gillymor 03 Feb 25 - 10:10 AM
GUEST,Peter Laban 03 Feb 25 - 11:04 AM
GUEST,Peter Laban 03 Feb 25 - 11:13 AM
Tattie Bogle 03 Feb 25 - 05:34 PM
GUEST,PHJim 03 Feb 25 - 05:42 PM
GUEST,PHJim 03 Feb 25 - 05:43 PM
GUEST,PHJim 03 Feb 25 - 05:45 PM
Sandra in Sydney 03 Feb 25 - 07:43 PM
GUEST,Steve Shaw 04 Feb 25 - 05:05 AM
GerryM 04 Feb 25 - 05:22 AM
GUEST, Steve Shaw 04 Feb 25 - 10:25 AM
Susan of DT 04 Feb 25 - 11:37 AM
GUEST 04 Feb 25 - 04:02 PM
GUEST,.gargoyle 04 Feb 25 - 09:35 PM
GUEST,PHJim 05 Feb 25 - 01:00 AM
GUEST,PHJim 05 Feb 25 - 01:05 AM
GUEST,Oriel Wynn-Dawe 05 Feb 25 - 11:07 AM
gillymor 07 Feb 25 - 12:59 PM
GUEST,sortaottery 07 Feb 25 - 01:03 PM
GUEST,PHJim 07 Feb 25 - 05:13 PM
GUEST,PHJim 07 Feb 25 - 05:26 PM
GUEST,Julia L 07 Feb 25 - 06:57 PM
Jim Dixon 07 Feb 25 - 08:53 PM
Neil D 08 Feb 25 - 01:24 AM
GUEST,keberoxu 08 Feb 25 - 07:17 PM
Stilly River Sage 08 Feb 25 - 08:13 PM
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Subject: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: Johnny J
Date: 03 Feb 25 - 08:12 AM

The right wing press are reporting that The SNP Gov, here in Scotland, intend to "ban" cats and/or restrict their freedom outdoors.

It's not true, of course, but I thought it might be nice if we could give some examples of our favourite Cat tunes and songs while we still have them.

Here's a start..


https://youtu.be/W8dVMu6KRS4

Composed by Session.org member Gian Marco and can be found on the tune site there.


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: Beer
Date: 03 Feb 25 - 09:36 AM

This is the first one that came to mind. Certainly been around and sung by many musicians. But this one is cute.

https://youtu.be/KhJYbS_0G9k?si=ewtWFk2hGQP6_sQX


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 03 Feb 25 - 09:45 AM

Rushed Egglestone : Fluffy Arabian cat disease


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: The Sandman
Date: 03 Feb 25 - 09:45 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=555ot7_dTH0 WHERES THE CAT


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: gillymor
Date: 03 Feb 25 - 10:10 AM

The Cat that Ate the Candle, we got it off an Altan album.


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 03 Feb 25 - 11:04 AM

The cat that ate the candle is classic piping repertoire come to us via Tommy Reck. You have to get the flat say meow.

Anyhow, there's also The cat in the hopper. Also not a great experience for the cat, I imagine.


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 03 Feb 25 - 11:13 AM

Jackie Daly wrote one he called The cat on the half door. A polka.


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 03 Feb 25 - 05:34 PM

I did once have a friend's great big ginger cat take up residence in my accordion case after I left it open in his hallway while we were having a music session in his front room! Shame I can't post the photo of it!

Not from the folk genre, but always amuses me:
The Cat Duet - Rossini


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: GUEST,PHJim
Date: 03 Feb 25 - 05:42 PM

They're Eating The Cats - Donald Trump & Kiffness

|:[G7] They're eating the [F] dogs, they're eating the [C] cats,
They're eating the [F] pets of the people that live there [G7]:|

[C] People of Springfield please don't [F] eat my cat
Why would you do that; eat something [C] else.
People of Springfield please don't [F] eat my dog;
Here's a catalogue of other things to [G7] eat.

|:[G7] They're eating the [F] dogs,(Bow-wow-wowow) they're eating the [C] cats, (Meow, meow, meow meow)
They're eating the [F] pets of the people that live [G7] there [G7]:| . . .fade out


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: GUEST,PHJim
Date: 03 Feb 25 - 05:43 PM

You've Got A Cat - parody of Carole King's song

You just [G] call out my [GMa7] name and you [C] know, wherever I [Am] am
I'll ig[G]nore you, [GMa7] I don't give a [D7] damn [Am] [D7]
[G] Winter, spring, summer or [GMa7] fall
[C] I won't respond to your [Em] call
I'll ig[C]nore you, yes I [D7] will,
You've got a [G] cat. [C] [G]


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: GUEST,PHJim
Date: 03 Feb 25 - 05:45 PM

MY GRANDMOTHER'S CAT

My grandmother's cat grew too fat for his shelf so he slept every night on a bed.
He was almost as big as my Grandma herself because three times a day he was fed.
He was fed tuna scraps as he sat on Grandma's lap, on his back with a big napkin tied,
He ate as much as he could hold until he got too wide.

Every day pounds of salmon meat (chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp) - Sirloin of parakeet (chomp, chomp, chomp)
He ate as much as he could hold until he got too wide.

My Grandmother said that of cats she had known her favorite by far was old Dan;
He'd stand on the floor, and his eyes simply shone when she opened the tunafish can.
With his eyes shining bright, and a groan of delight, he'd rub against Grandma and purr,
'Til one day he knocked Grandma down for by then he was bigger than her.

Every day gobs of goose pate (chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp) - Followed by fish fillets (chomp, chomp chomp)
'Til one day he knocked Grandma down for by then he was bigger than her.

She fell to the floor with a pitiful scream and lay there unconscious awhile,
And when she awoke his eyes were agleam as he looked down on her with a smile.
With a gigantic paw, he poked my old Grandma as he gave her a horrible grin;
He looked at her legs, and he peered at her arms wondering where to begin.

Aged, but tender parts, (chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp) - Mouse morsels a la carte (chomp, chomp, chomp)
He looked at her legs, and he peered at her arms, wondering where to begin.

She managed to climb, despite her bad back to the top of her old Frigidaire.
She threw him two steaks, his favorite snack which he always took medium rare.
The three awful days that she spent upon the fridge seemed to her like a lifetime, at least;
She threw to the floor all the food that she could find to fill up the ravenous beast.

All sorts of merchandise (chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp) - Hams of the family size (chomp, chomp, chomp)
She threw to the floor all the food that she could find to fill up the ravenous beast.

She stayed there three days, till she ran out of stuff and the giant was snarling for more!
He was standing and nibbling on her right scuff when the family burst in through the door.
It took twenty men to shut him in a pen and ship him away to the zoo;
Let this be a lesson to all, both great and small---that your pets should be smaller than you.

Carte blanche you can't afford (chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp) - Cut out the smorgasbord ( chomp, chomp, chomp)
Let this be a lesson to all, both great and small--- that your pets should be smaller than you.


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Feb 25 - 07:43 PM

great thread thanks for your posts

Love this brilliant parody, my first thought was to send it to a friend who volunteers for a cat protection group, naturally she is very serious about protecting cats, & didn't like a cartoon I showed her once ... (ps. no cats were harmed in the cartoon!)

here's Canadian National Film Board award winning cartoon 'The Cat Came back' former Mudcatter John Weldon was part of the team

sandra (who likes both cats & dogs)


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Feb 25 - 05:05 AM

Speaking of Jackie Daly, he recording a set of two tunes (slides as I remember) called Trip To The Jacks and Where Is The Cat on his album Music from Sliabh Luachra Vol 6 in the 70s. Without that album I would never have got into playing Irish tunes.


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: GerryM
Date: 04 Feb 25 - 05:22 AM

The Black Cat Piddled in the White Cat's Eye, https://australianfolkmusic.com.au/tune/the-black-cat-piddled-in-the-white-cats-eye-lyrics/


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: GUEST, Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Feb 25 - 10:25 AM

I've just realised that the tune I mentioned is the same one that Dick linked to. It took me a bit of a listen to both before I could reach that realisation. It just goes to show...


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: Susan of DT
Date: 04 Feb 25 - 11:37 AM

The keyword "cat" in the Digital Tradition will get you a list of 28 songs about cats.


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Feb 25 - 04:02 PM

The cat’s rambles to the child’s saucepan.
Great tune, that’s a slide too, I think the Bothy Band recorded it.
George Melly used to sing a song called ‘Black Cat Blues’ which was risqué and funny in equal measure.


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 04 Feb 25 - 09:35 PM

Meow Song - advertising jingle.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yFRvqqORC98

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Also "Johnny Dolan's Cat" previously on Mudcat.


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: GUEST,PHJim
Date: 05 Feb 25 - 01:00 AM

He’s Nobody’s Moggy Now - Eric Bogle ? 1983

Somebody's Moggy by the side of the road
Somebody's pussy who forgot his highway code
Someone's favorite feline who ran clean out of luck
When he ran onto the road and tried to argue with a truck
Yesterday he purred and played in his pussy paradise
Decapitating tweetybirds and masticating mice
Now he's just 6 lbs of raw minced meat that don't smell very nice
He's nobody's Moggy now

Oh you who love your pussy be sure to keep him in
Don't let him argue with a truck the truck is bound to win
And upon the busy road don't let him play or frolic
If you do I'm warning you it could be CAT-ostrophic
If he plays out on the roadway I'm afraid that will be that
There'll be one last despairing MEOW and a sort of squelchy SPLAT
And your pussy will be slightly dead and very, very flat
He's nobody's Moggy, just red and squashed and soggy
He's Nobody's Moggy now - Ooohmm


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: GUEST,PHJim
Date: 05 Feb 25 - 01:05 AM

One with a bit of double (single) entendre


Cheap Suits - My Girl's Pussy


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: GUEST,Oriel Wynn-Dawe
Date: 05 Feb 25 - 11:07 AM

A tune not a song -The cat that Kittled in Jamie's Wig.


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: gillymor
Date: 07 Feb 25 - 12:59 PM

Where's the Cat?
A fun slide.


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: GUEST,sortaottery
Date: 07 Feb 25 - 01:03 PM

Chacarera de los Gatos

Miau miau miau miau michi michi miau


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: GUEST,PHJim
Date: 07 Feb 25 - 05:13 PM

The In & Out Cat Song - Garrison Keilor


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: GUEST,PHJim
Date: 07 Feb 25 - 05:26 PM

CAT O CAT = Garrison Keilor


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: GUEST,Julia L
Date: 07 Feb 25 - 06:57 PM

From Schooner fare's "Schooner Kids" album
A CAT NAMED PATRICK FINNEGAN
words and music by Chuck Romanoff

Patrick really is one of the Romanoff family cats. The song is
dedicated to the memory of "Mr. Kitty," the much beloved and very
missed Rowe family cat.

I've got a cat named Patrick Finnegan,
Scritch, scratch, scratchin' at the door.
He wants someone to let him in again,
Then let him out again once more.

He wants to come in. He wants to go out.
I guess he forgot where he was just a minute before.
He wants to come in again. He wants to go out once more.
He's always on the wrong side of the door.

Can you hear him meowing at the front door?
It's OK to leave it open just a crack.
He'll only be staying for a minute or so,
Then diddly bop boppin' out the back.

He can pass up a tasty meal, there's nothing to it.
But when he sees an open door, he's got to go through it.

Trip trap trippin' on his tippy toes...
Munch a little kibble for a snack....
Once around the livingroom and out he goes,
Lollygaggin' on the welcome mat.


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 07 Feb 25 - 08:53 PM

There's a whole thread: Lyr/Chords Req: Songs about cats


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: Neil D
Date: 08 Feb 25 - 01:24 AM

From the Friends TV show
Smelly cat oh smelly cat
What are they feeding you?


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 08 Feb 25 - 07:17 PM

Yes, Garrison Kiellor on Prairie Home Companion.

Together with guest Willie Nelson, there was a PHC performance of
a parody,
To All the Cats I've Known Before

which began:
To all the cats I've known before
Who wanted to come in my door
And then they turned about
And wanted to go out
So they could come back in some more . . .


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Feb 25 - 08:13 PM

There are still some Saturday evenings after All Things Considered when I almost expect the old radio show to start. So many clever songs over the years. Thanks for the reminder, Keb!


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: GUEST,Rob Mad Jock Wright
Date: 09 Feb 25 - 04:01 AM

The great singer song writer Angie Wright sings about WILBUR in her song which is a true story.
It features on her album Heroes and Demons which is available on Spotify and other platforms.

20% of all performance fees and sales go to support the Scottish Mental Health Charity SAMH.


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 10 Feb 25 - 07:25 AM

They are probably in the other cat thread, but here are some more:
Sam the Skull (The Glasgow Cat) (and the semi-parody “Dundee Doag”)

The Dundee Cat - Hamish Imlach

And the Aberdeen Cat: my friend’s lovely cat that got run over close to her house - friend cannot stand the “Nobody’s Moggie Now” song for that reason!


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Subject: RE: Favourite cat tunes and songs
From: mayomick
Date: 11 Feb 25 - 04:52 AM

The little White Cat - An Caitin Ban
https://thesession.org/tunes/5284#setting5284


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