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Lyr Req: Childless Cat Ladies (Fink/Marxer)

24 Oct 24 - 02:07 AM (#4210301)
Subject: Lyr Req: Childless Cat Ladies (Fink/Marxer)
From: Joe Offer

Here's a new song written by Cathy Fink and Tom Paxton, performed by Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer. Would anybody like to post a transcription?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASZafPnU8GQ

24 Oct 24 - 02:56 AM (#4210304)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Childless Cat Ladies (Fink/Marxer)
From: Thompson

"We'll take our cats to the polling booth and we'll vote with a mighty miaaaaaow"!
A cat lady from the last century, Grace Gifford.

24 Oct 24 - 03:22 PM (#4210333)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Childless Cat Ladies (Fink/Marxer)
From: NightWing

CHILDLESS CAT LADIES
Music and Lyrics by Tom Paxton and Cathy Fink

[Am]Childless Cat Ladies [Dm]creepin' around
[Am]Nothin' but cats on our [E7]minds
[Am]Cats runnin' 'round with their [Dm]tails in the air
They're [Am]flashin' their [E7]feline [Am]behinds

Childless Cat Ladies, young and old
Cats are our pleasure and joy
They warm up our laps when the weather is cold
And we ___ on tuna and ___

-- CHORUS --
[Dm]Cats can't vote but [Am]we sure can
They need us to do it and [E7]how
We'll [Am]take our cats to the [Dm]polling booth
And we'll [Am]vote with a [E7]mighty mia[Am]ow

Hey diddle diddle, cat and a fiddle
There's a cow and a dish and a spoon
There's a crazy man with tiny hands
And a mind that belongs on the moon

There's a Persian, a Calico, a Maltese, a Manx
All cats are welcome to us
It's cat lovers ___ ___ with thanks
In cat people we put our trust

-- CHORUS --
Cats can't vote but we sure can
They need us to do it and how
We'll take our cats to the polling booth
And we'll vote with a mighty miaow
We'll vote with a mighty miaow
We'll vote with a mighty miaow

Any help with the two lines I can't get?

In the second verse, I'm hearing "we'll sip on tuna and soy". I doubt that's it.

In the fourth verse, I get "It's cat lovers allergies riddled with thanks". Again, I'm fairly sure that'w not right.

BB,
NightWing
(actually a dog lover, but currently a "childless cat guy")

24 Oct 24 - 08:12 PM (#4210348)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Childless Cat Ladies (Fink/Marxer)
From: Thomas Stern

Have you not noticed: many youtube items have a transcript ???

The text below the video says MORE...
additional info displayed has button for TRANSCRIPT.

sometime is is even fairly accurate. Try it.

Thos.

24 Oct 24 - 09:11 PM (#4210351)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Childless Cat Ladies (Fink/Marxer)
From: NightWing

Your phrasing would be more accurate if you said, "occasionally it is even fairly accurate": not that often.

And what makes you think I did not? That's where I got about 90% of the lyric I reported. However, to be fair to you I looked again.

I think it's actually right in the fourth verse line: "It's a cat lover's elegy written with thanks". When I listened to it before, it did not seem to match the words and I couldn't turn "elogy" into a real word, but listening again--after a bit of time had passed--I figured it for "elegy" which does work.

In the second verse, the transcript suggests "we spit on tuna and toys": complete nonsense! "Toys" might be right but spitting on either tuna or toys doesn't make sense in the lyric.

The best I can hear, looking at the transcript, are ...

We step on tuna and toys

or

We slip on tuna and toys

... neither of which a) makes sense in the lyric or b) sounds like what they're singing.

So, try it yourself and tell us what you hear, rather than wasting our time with a suggestion I had already followed.

BB,
NightWing

26 Oct 24 - 05:23 AM (#4210418)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Childless Cat Ladies (Fink/Marxer)
From: Thompson

Anyone who's ever had a cat has slipped on tuna and cat toys as they walk across the kitchen.

28 Oct 24 - 10:01 PM (#4210557)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Childless Cat Ladies (Fink/Marxer)
From: Gorgeous Gary

After listening to it myself I am fairly certain the missing word in the 8th line is "spend".

Thus making the line "And we spend on tuna and toys"...as someone who has been staff to cats that makes quite a bit of sense to me.

02 Nov 24 - 02:31 PM (#4210833)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Childless Cat Ladies (Fink/Marxer)
From: Charley Noble

Here's to Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer!

And MEOWWW!