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Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.

20 Feb 01 - 10:24 AM (#402156)
Subject: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: English Jon

Corrrrrrr. I was wondrin' if there's any good Cat type songz out there...corrr. Blinkin' huminz always warblin' on about how good it used to be in the old dayz. Corrr. Wot about da Cat, eh? Never a word about ole' Moggo. Corrr.

Any Thortz?

Corrrrrrr.....

English Jon's Cat

20 Feb 01 - 10:27 AM (#402163)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: MMario

How about this one?

The Dundee Cat

20 Feb 01 - 10:31 AM (#402167)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Malcolm Douglas

Sam The Skull

20 Feb 01 - 10:31 AM (#402168)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: English Jon

Corrrrr. I don' fink dat sort of fing should be commememeratered in the tradition, reeeeely. corrrr. In fact, the less said about da whole bollox fing, the better. I fink.

Corrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

English Jon's Cat

20 Feb 01 - 10:43 AM (#402176)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: MMario

well - there is Tortoise-shell ; Persian Kitty ; Senor Don Gato to name a few...

20 Feb 01 - 10:46 AM (#402178)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Ella who is Sooze

mmmeeeeroooowallll mrrrppp.... bollockssssss.... whassssss them then - am I meant to have them mrp mrp?

Monty roooooowoolllllwal

20 Feb 01 - 10:51 AM (#402185)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: English Jon

Corrrrrr. dat wud depend on wever you are a lady kat or a chappy cat of de bollocular persasion. corrrr.

Either way I don' fink it is polite to sing about da bollox of da cat. corrrr. Damn Vett. Corrr. I'll gettim.

EJC

20 Feb 01 - 11:27 AM (#402208)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Naemanson

Oscar Brand released an album (I Like Cats) that was all songs about cats. Cheryl Wheeler included a song about her cats (Meow) on her album Sylvia Hotel.

Then there are the traditional ones like The Body In The Bag and The Cat Came Back.

I like Sam The Skull. Is there a tune out there for it?

20 Feb 01 - 12:09 PM (#402237)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)

Didn't Garrison Keillor have a cd of songs for your cat?

20 Feb 01 - 12:18 PM (#402244)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: MMario

Songs about Cats

this looks interesting, too

20 Feb 01 - 01:55 PM (#402326)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Bert

Is no one going to mention "Alley Cat" - Dum ta da dee dum dum dum dum.

20 Feb 01 - 03:11 PM (#402379)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C

Then there's always "I'm Gonna Drown Me Cat", the parody of "All Around My Hat;" it's somewhere in the Archieves.

20 Feb 01 - 11:25 PM (#402683)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Little Hawk

"Ring Tail Tom" is a good one. Rick Fielding sang it the other night, and I hadn't heard it in 35 years!

- LH

20 Feb 01 - 11:40 PM (#402689)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Matt_R

What is this corrrr thing?

21 Feb 01 - 01:16 AM (#402726)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: katlaughing

corrr blimey!

21 Feb 01 - 02:30 AM (#402745)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Hawker

Our old cat is rather fond of CAT Stephens whilst the kittens prefer to listen to CATatonia - and TOM Jones...especially What's new PUSSYCAT Whoaaaaahwhooooaaaawhaoooooo - o!!!!! ROFL Lucy

21 Feb 01 - 03:51 AM (#402759)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: English Jon

Corrrrrr... is a noize that a Cat makez wen it is finkin very 'ard about somefink. It iz a kind of phisolophical type of purrrringe. Corrrr.

English Jon's Cat

++++++++

Jon would like to ask:

Has anyone got lyrics for Body in the bag? (Corrr Blimey indeed). I'll have a look in DT in a minute.

Cheers,

Jon

21 Feb 01 - 04:09 AM (#402762)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Wolfgang

Enter 'cat' in the DT search and you'll get 100+ hits. And don't forget also to enter 'moggy' or otherwise you'd miss the beautiful Nobody's moggy now.

Wolfgang

21 Feb 01 - 11:59 AM (#402812)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Mr Red

Eric Bogle (I assume Somebody's Moggy = Nobody's Moggy) claims that the song had its genesis in the long drives across Oz to gigs and the large number of run-over feral felines converted to dried flatcats. Indeed he claims to hold the world cat frisbee record.

21 Feb 01 - 12:15 PM (#402828)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: GUEST,bekintex@swbell.net

Wonderful CD is "BEDLAM CATS" by Cynthia McQUillan and I can't recall who else. I love "OVERFLOWING CATBOX BLUES."

21 Feb 01 - 12:16 PM (#402832)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Bert

To the tune of "The Girl I left Behind Me"

A white cat sitting on a black cat's tail
and the black cat said 'cor blimey'
If you stick your nose right up my arse
you won't be far behind me.

21 Feb 01 - 02:55 PM (#403017)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: GUEST,morgan of killicrankie

people get silly always silly people stupid cats know right stuff eat sleep fight mate sometimes play

watch small animal and catch it

lie in sunbeam or near hot fireplace

find best cushion every time

ask cats

they know

best song is made up on the spot like a howl to all the world make your own song sing it they don't like it/

what do they know/

morgan

21 Feb 01 - 10:57 PM (#403408)
Subject: Lyr Add: TOMCAT TROUBLE (Tim Henderson)
From: Sarah2

Tomcat Trouble
by Tim Henderson

Tomcat trouble on an old porch swing;
He's dreamin' of the night when the cat is king,
Lookin' down on the feeder where the songbirds sing
With his bad eye...
And dreamin' of a kitty from catnip city
With a deep, dark, silky purr:
A biter and a spitter, she's the mama of a litter
That looks more like him than her!
And dreamin' of a...

Chorus:
Black cat night,
There's gonna be a bad cat fight
We're hoping things will turn out right
For a chewed-up kitty from run-dog city,
Uh huh...

Tomcat trouble on a moonlit night
He's layin' in the alleyway, just waitin' for a fight
Watchin' everything that comes in sight
With his bad eye...
Eyes glowin' pretty to a "Here, kitty, kitty!"
And a million other midnight sounds
Claws kinda itchin' and a tail kinda twitchin'
And a chewed ear hangin' on down!
He's dreamin' of...

Chorus

Tomcat trouble, hey, what do I see?
He's droppin' on a brown dog from out of a tree
Claws churnin' and a coal fire burnin'
In his bad eye...
There a thrashin' and a smashin' and a trash can crashin'
And lights where no lights were!
A spittin' and a yowlin' and a hound dog howlin'
While that tomcat's pluckin' fur!
And dreamin' of a...

Chorus

Tomcat trouble; hell, that's what he's for:
Chasing all the songbirds away from your door,
Taking all you give and demanding more
With his bad eye...
Moonlight serenading and a-alley renegading
At the risk of his nine lives,
Moanin' and a-spittin' and a-makin' baby kittens
With the help of a hundred wives!
And dreamin' of a...

Chorus

***

(It's very bluesy and cat cool sounding)

Sarah

22 Feb 01 - 04:01 AM (#403534)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: English Jon

Corrr yeahh. Dat is a Kool Catsonggg. Corrr.. Tomcat Bloooz. Yeahhh. Corrrr. Fank's a lot Sarah2.

EJC

22 Feb 01 - 07:33 AM (#403583)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: guest(intruder-inactive)

and kilban's

love to eat dem mousies
mousies what i love to eat
bite they tiny heads off
nibble on they little feet

had the cartoon somewhere
cat in a coffeehouse with a sixstring
singin' away

14 Jun 01 - 08:02 AM (#483197)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE CAT THAT ROAMED
From: Gervase

A belated addition (I sing this to my cat as a dire warning. Particularly when his farts get too bad):

THE CAT THAT ROAMED
(Malcolm Austin)

In the West End of Hayes lives a working man
He says I can't fly but me moggie can
And when my cat gets free
He comes flying back to me
Lifted up by next-door's toe

There's a pigeon loft in next-door's yard
With locks and bars - oh, entry was hard
But Charlie had a dream;
Oh how he would scheme
Just to get amongst them for his tea.

It was 1950 - that's ten to eight,
When the neighbour made his big mistake;
Left the door open wide
Charlie got inside.
Sometimes it seems your dreams come true.

In the West End of Hayes life was hard
And so were those pigeons in next door's yard.
Have you seen what beaks can do?
It was far more peck than chew.
Poor old Charlie how his fur did fly.

The neighbour stormed out in a rage
To see Charlie fall out of that cage.
He said, 'Cat you're going to fly;
I'll lift you up so high
You'll think you're never coming down!'

I was off with me mates for a pint or two
When I saw a bit of orange flash up in the blue.
It's Charlie the cat that roamed
Flying back to his West End home.
Come outside he's crashed upon the path.

Get on up you flat moggie
And I'll fetch the vet to thee.
Charlie I told you so,
I warned you not to go;
Now you'll need a lift just to reach me knee.

In the West End of Hayes lives a working man.
He says I can't fly but me moggie can,
And when my cat gets free
He comes flying back to me,
Lifted up by next-door's toe.

14 Jun 01 - 08:13 AM (#483203)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: English Jon

Corrrrrr....shit. Bleedin' pijinz. corrrrrr. I'll gettum.

English Jon's Cat

Thanks Gervase!

EJ

14 Jun 01 - 10:25 AM (#483262)
Subject: Lyr Add: CAT FARTS
From: Áine

I just can't believe that you 'old time' 'Catters haven't told English Jon about this song and the wonderful, classic BS: Cat Farts thread:

CAT FARTS
(Tune: How Much Is That Doggie In The Window)

Chorus:
How much is that kitten in the window,
The one with the odorous bum.
The aroma is one that we should know,
Reminds me of green river scum.

His eyes are the colour of emeralds,
His toothies they shine in the sun,
I would love to hug him and kiss him,
If his butt didn't smell like bad rum.

(Chorus)

He mews as I scratch his ears and hold him,
He nuzzles my cheek with a purr,
He raises his tail in greatest pleasure,
Too bad that his end has no fur!

(Chorus)

The man says there'll be no charge for him, dear
He's free to the first true good home,
But beware of his little SBD's, dear,
He could part the Red Sea with no comb!

(Chorus)

-- Áine

14 Jun 01 - 10:31 AM (#483269)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: GUEST,Artie on the windowsill

My person has a friend named Akire Bubar who has a demo tape that includes the song, "Throw Your Cat Away". She's at www.akire.com

My person says the song is funny, but I am NOT amused.

And I hate this food I loved yesterday. Mommmm! Feed me something else!

Artie

14 Jun 01 - 12:36 PM (#483359)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: GUEST,beadie

It's not entirely about a cat, but check out Hoyt Axton's song "Della and the Dealer" [and a dog named Jake and a cat named Kalamazoo]. Its on the digitrad d-base.

14 Jun 01 - 06:15 PM (#483629)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Charley Noble

I'm still bitter that my contribution to Garrison Keiller's collection was rejected, and that I can no longer find the lyrics. It was entitled "There are No Hairballs in Heaven" to the tune of "The Lightning Express." It's gone, solid gone...There's that great British children's book called "The Ship's Cat", all in verse about this piratical feline.

15 Jun 01 - 05:38 AM (#483934)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Diva

Well my cat Molly..the famous singing mudcat...loves the Mollymauk song as sung by Micca and Jacko and others.

15 Jun 01 - 05:47 AM (#483938)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: English Jon

My cat was called Molly - the cat that evil bitch woman took from me, along with my house and a few other things.

Arhghghghghghggh. corrrrr shit.

It was named after the East-Anglian folk dance style!

EJ

15 Jun 01 - 07:04 AM (#483974)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: GUEST,The Real Jim Cheydi's pet viper

....and it's got a real problem with gender identity!!

15 Jun 01 - 07:09 AM (#483978)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: English Jon

Hallo Jim!

15 Jun 01 - 07:10 AM (#483979)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: pavane

There's always the ?rugby song 'Cats on the rooftop' to the tune of John Peel. I can only remember the chorus, and that is 'words objectionable' as they used to say

15 Jun 01 - 07:35 AM (#483988)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Jim Cheydi

Hey dude!

Moggy would a-courting go?

15 Jun 01 - 07:39 AM (#483990)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: English Jon

Welcome to Mudcaffoo, Jim

up for the w/e in Berks then?

Loomwa

15 Jun 01 - 07:48 AM (#483997)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Mike Byers

A few years ago, I wrote a piece called "Reilly's Cat." You can find it at www.ravenglass.org; click on "diversions" at the bottom of the front page and then on "poetry". I never put it to music, but anyone who's so inclinded is free to have a go at it.

15 Jun 01 - 07:49 AM (#483999)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Jim Cheydi

Could well be. Will there be beer and loose women do you think?

JC

15 Jun 01 - 07:57 AM (#484007)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Bat Goddess

A cat song that did NOT get on the Garrison Keiler cat song CD is "Cat-town Races," which was on A Prairie Home Companion in the very early '80s. Anyone have the words?

I learned the "All Around My Hat" parody from Judy Cook:

"I'm going to kill my cat
And smother him with my pillow.
He pissed upon my hat
And for that he has to pay.
But I'm not in to cruelty
So when I'm through dissecting it
I'm going to send the pieces to the ASPCA."

I last sang it after a spate of "Don't Pet the Dog," "Please Send My Dog Home, Uncle Sam," and a host of others of that ilk.

Bat Goddess

15 Jun 01 - 08:09 AM (#484013)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: English Jon

yes and no Jim, in that order.

JL

15 Jun 01 - 09:00 AM (#484062)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: pavane

And a snippet of parody:


Hush hush, whisper who dares
Little boy sits at the foot of the stairs
Blood on the carpet, and fur on the mat
Christopher Robin's castrated the cat

15 Jun 01 - 09:11 AM (#484077)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: English Jon

Corrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! shitshitshit. I'lll getchooooo! Corrrrr! shit! corrrrr! Bledin' kristufarobbinhsssss. corrrrrrrrr. shit.

English Jon's Cat

15 Jun 01 - 09:27 AM (#484088)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Gervase

The version I remember was (and cover your ears, Teabag*):

Little boy kneels at the foot of the stairs,
Clutched in his hand a tuft of white hairs.
Goodness gracious, fancy that!
Christoper Robin's castrated the cat.


(But I bet he charges a lot less than my vet!)



*Teabag being the name of the cat that bites my toes most mornings. Don't ask why; there's no sensible reason. Just never name a cat when pissed. Could have been worse, though. He was very nearly Kitten Tikka.

15 Jun 01 - 09:30 AM (#484091)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: pavane

My version is closer to the original rhyme

15 Jun 01 - 09:33 AM (#484093)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: English Jon

SHITSHITSHITSHITSHIT! CORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! STOPITNOW-CORRILLGETCHOOOO!

NUFFWIDABOLLOXFING! CORRRRRRRRRRR!

EJC

15 Jun 01 - 09:39 AM (#484100)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Gervase

Funny that - I think Teabag is still not entirely gruntled at losing his bollocks either, which is why he knocks nine bells out of my feet.
Can't say I blame him, though.

15 Jun 01 - 09:41 AM (#484103)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: English Jon

Corrrr... most ungruntled mate. corrrr....

15 Jun 01 - 10:39 AM (#484161)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: GUEST,Artie on the windowsill

I took my revenge on my person when she took me to be "neutered", as the humans say: I made sure one of my 'bollocks' did not "drop", so she had to pay a higher fee to have the job done (heh heh heh).

But I must say that, as a feline of delicate aspect ( to use the disgusting term that humans do, I was the "runt" of my litter), it pleases me not to deign to engage in clawticuffs with those hulking, brutish toms who are so unrefined as to "mark" their meager territory while I have an entire human abode at my disposal! Therefore I've come to terms with my person on the subject of the unfortunate "neutering" incident, and she is of course my devoted servant for life.

Now, if you'll pardon me, I must once again go through the motions of refusing her latest offering. Ah, the rigorous duties of lordship....

15 Jun 01 - 10:44 AM (#484169)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Sorcha

Nobody has mentioned an entire musical called "Cats".....too easy, I guess.

15 Jun 01 - 10:47 AM (#484171)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: English Jon

Corrrrr. yorabit bleedin' posh arntchoo artie! corrr.

sertunlee got the meszher of yor huming tho! heheheheheh!

Corrrrrr..

15 Jun 01 - 10:47 AM (#484172)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Jim Cheydi

and no one ever will if they want to keep their teeth!

15 Jun 01 - 11:28 AM (#484200)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull

I suprised noone mentiones -Year of the cat(Al Stewart)

15 Jun 01 - 11:36 AM (#484211)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Bat Goddess

Mein Gott, Artie on the Windowsill -- are you related to my sorely missed Peppersass? His mother was supposedly too immature to ever have kittens, and he was the runt (excuse the term) of the litter and never expected to mature sexually. One morning when he was almost 2, he awakened Curmudgeon by spraying in his face. Thought 'Mudge was going to perform the operation with his teeth! But no, we hied us to the vet and discovered the one up one down syndrome which cost us a pretty penny.

Bat Goddess who would like to remind everyone that she's still looking for the words to "Cat-Town Races"

15 Jun 01 - 12:35 PM (#484269)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: GUEST,Artie on the windowsill

My Dear Sir EJC:

"Posh"? Tut, tut, dear boy; I prefer to think of myself as possessing a certain dignified style. Oh, I enjoy a good romp with a bit of string or catnip as much as the next feline, but I'll quickly recover my composure and strike some elegant pose or other. I am ever mindful of our ancestry wherein we were worshipped by the more enlightened humans of a bygone era.

Alas, too few humans today recognize our superiority to them. This is the reason that I am so distressed by the petty squabbling and ear-ripping that goes on between the toms; their behavior is below their station, and does nothing to gain us the respect that is our due from the awkward, furless humans.

Artie (Arthur of Montgomery)

15 Jun 01 - 12:50 PM (#484280)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: GUEST,Artie on the windowsill

To the lovely B. Goddess:

My condolences on the passing of Lord Peppersass. Perhaps he is, even now, having a nice chase with my departed companion, Lord Chester.

I am unaware of a direct family connection with your master feline. However, we are all ultimately of one great royal bloodline, are we not?

Kindest regards,
Artie

15 Jun 01 - 04:33 PM (#484489)
Subject: Lyr Add: I'M GONNA DROWN MY CAT
From: Charley Noble

BG, here's the version that I got from my Nova Scotian buddy, Vince Morash. I wonder who actually wrote it?

ANON From Nova Scotian singer-songwriter Vince Morash – 11/11/95 Tune English Traditional: "All Around My Hat"

I'M GONNA DROWN MY CAT 
 C           G           C       F/C         G      G7 
  I'm gonna drown me cat, or-r smother it with a pillow,
               C    G     G7 C         F   C      D       G 
  It's pissed all a-round me flat, and it's gonna have to pay;
        G7           C            F                     G 
  But I'm not in-to cruelty, so when I'm done dis-secting it,
       C      G        C         F G  G7C 
  I'm gonna send the pieces to the S–PCA.
So fare ye well, wee puss, ye've piddled once too often,
I'm off to buy a dog, who's good and well behaved;
Ye never discriminated, the place where ye urinated,
So "Rest in Pee" shall be the epitaph on yer grave.

To get ye potty trained, I've struggled till me strength,
Just like yer bladder drained – over walls, rugs and chairs;
Yer metabolism's booming, ye produce more than ye're consuming,
It's really quite beyond belief – so-o, pussy, say yer prayers.

I'm gonna buy a bat, made of the finest willow,
I'll put ye out with that, end me troubles with one blow;
But I pity poor St. Peter, for when he comes to greet ye,
Ye'll wait till he's not looking, then ye'll piss through his halo!

See you in Kennebunk on Saturday afternoon.

19 Jun 01 - 09:55 AM (#486906)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: GUEST,Artie on the windowsill

Here's another suggestion from my person, one that is much more to my liking. It is named "Open That Can" and is written by Canadian singer-songwriter Nancy White. It's on "Momnipotent: Songs for Weary Parents", which apparently is a thing called a CD, and is available ...in the Amazon? ...no, no, AT Amazon.com ...oh, these humans and their silly names...

At any rate, it's a lovely song. Even if it has (ugh) dogs in it, and other animals as well, each verse ends with "Meow, meow, open that can, cat says open that can." I approve.

Artie

19 Jun 01 - 11:10 AM (#486982)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: English Jon

Just a minute....

Cat's can't type!

English Jon

19 Jun 01 - 11:12 AM (#486983)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: English Jon

Corrrrrrrr....

I gotta Mak wiv speech wreckignition!

Shit!

corrrrr....

EJC

19 Jun 01 - 11:15 AM (#486987)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: MMario

what I'm waiting for is EJC to start contributing to the MudCat summer story....possibly as a human charactor

19 Jun 01 - 11:21 AM (#486992)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: GUEST,Artie on the windowsill

Why, I simply transmit my thoughts to my person by staring at her mercilessly. Then her eyes glaze over a bit more than usual, and she types my message for me. Then she feeds me, brushes me, fluffs my pillow and stands waiting for further orders.

Artie

19 Jun 01 - 11:27 AM (#487001)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Jim Cheydi

How high is this windowsssill?Sssso much food, ssssso little time.

Jim Cheydi's pet viper.

21 Jun 01 - 01:12 PM (#488977)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: GUEST

*refresh*

28 Jun 01 - 11:53 AM (#494005)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: GUEST,SharonA

Omigod, I think the snake ate Artie!!

There's "William Shakespeare's In My Cat" by the Canadian band the Arrogant Worms.

SharonA

29 Jun 01 - 10:27 AM (#494766)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Charley Noble

Sharon - do you remember any of the lyrics? Sounds intriguing.

29 Jun 01 - 10:57 AM (#494798)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: GUEST,SharonA

The song is on their 1994 CD, "Russel's Shorts". I will try to find my copy of it tonight and post the lyrics over the weekend or on Monday, unless someone beats me to it!

SharonA

29 Jun 01 - 06:33 PM (#495067)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Charley Noble

While we're waiting for "William Shakespeare's In My Cat", does anyone have any use for a small but dead sparrow that my calico cat left as an offering on the kitchen floor?

02 Jul 01 - 11:12 AM (#496591)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: GUEST,SharonA

Sorry, Charley, I can't find my #%$& CD yet. It's in my apartment somewhere (it's "safe") and I WILL unearth it. God knows when, though.

This is why my friends have begun to decline to lend me stuff.

Your calico has paid you a great compliment! Be sure to praise her profusely before secretly disposing of the offering... or maybe you could have it stuffed. Was the head still on?

SharonA

02 Jul 01 - 02:50 PM (#496772)
Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: GUEST,Katnip

What about -- "Whiskas in the jar" or "I'm a manx you don't meet every day"

24 Jan 03 - 05:02 PM (#874108)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: SharonA

*refresh*

Hmmm... I see that MMario's link to the lyrics of "The Dundee Cat" has broken, perhaps a casualty of the recent upgrade. Here's the link, again: http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=6200

Or, if this link breaks in the future, just do a "Lyrics & Knowledge Search" (make sure the DT box is checked) for "Dundee Cat". There are several mentions of the song in the Forum threads, too.

No one here mentioned "Railroad Bill and the Kitten". Now there's a song where things work out better for the cat than for the human, in the end!   :^)   Link: http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=4862

25 Jan 03 - 10:47 AM (#874625)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Nigel Parsons

Mentioned above Overflowing Cat Box Blues is in the DT mirror site

25 Jan 03 - 10:52 AM (#874630)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Nigel Parsons

From the same tape Bella Chow

Nigel

25 Jan 03 - 11:09 AM (#874645)
Subject: Lyr Add: NO HAIRBALLS IN HEAVEN
From: Charley Noble

Well, since I mentioned this unrequited contribution (above) to Garrison Keillor back in 1982 I finally found my verse and chorus, and here are some addition verses contributed from Mudcat members:

Initial verse and chorus by Charlie Ipcar © 1982
Traditional Tune: "Lightning Express"

NO HAIRBALLS IN HEAVEN


Chorus:

There'll be no hairballs in Heaven,
No weariness sorrow or pain,
No claws that are bleeding and broken,
No nights left out in the rain.

We'll be in that beautiful jungle,
With birdies to chase through the leaves,
And mice will be there in abundance,
We'll snatch them whenever we please;
There'll be no Pit Bulls in Heaven,
No German Shepherds nor Chows,
And all will be tuna and salmon,
And cream drawn fresh from the cow.(CHO)

We'll sleep on the softest of pillows,
With Catnip to colour our dreams,
And no one will dare to awake us,
Until we have hatched all our schemes
There'll be no thrown boots in Heaven,
When up on the rooftops we sing
And the door we go out, when it opens
Will always lead out into Spring. (MMario)

The toys will always be fun ones
That scurry and scamper and hide,
With fur we can sink all our claws in,
And good things to eat inside.
When we sharpen our claws on the sofa,
Nobody cares if we shred and tear,
And when WE want to get some attention
A broad lap will always be there. (Lin in KS)

The elm trees grow tall up in Heaven
Just right for a hunter to lie
Stretched out on a branch with his eyes shut
In that home between green grass and sky
With the smells of the earth in his nostrils
And the feel of the bark 'neath his feet,
And the screams and the shrieks of the songbirds
In his ears, making music so sweet. (Lin in KS)

The ladies all will be willing,
The toms will all be debonair,
The kittens will stay safe with Mother
Until they no longer need care.
There'll be no needles in Heaven,
No dogs, no fear, no cars--
ust plenty of catnaps and grooming
And singalongs under the stars.(Lin in KS)

We'll never get bumped off the pillows
Where cat hair galore we can shed
Big Mama will never roll over
Disturbing our nest by her head (Mag)

She'll let us go out at All Hallow's
(She's nervous because we're all black)
We'll cruise with the kids scamming candy
And collect little mice in our sack (Mag)

She'll put back the cat door she took out
Disgusted with what we brought home
Our friends will drop through to visit
Even if we're out on a roam.(Mag)

Though no cat can make it to Heaven
Till all of her nine lives are done,
When you've used your sixth or seventh,
Your Cat Heaven dreams have begun.
There we chase butterflies through the cloud fields,
And claw the celestial walls,
For cats always seek out the highest perch,
And Heaven's the loftiest of all! (Genie)

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

25 Jan 03 - 11:16 AM (#874652)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Charley Noble

Lost a "J" in Lin in Kansas's verse. The line should read:

"Just plenty of catnaps and grooming"

10 Sep 03 - 06:09 PM (#1016521)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: reggie miles

A friend, Ron Baily, wrote one about trying to do his cat in. I used to sing it but can't now remember all the words. The chorus went

St. Peter you're about to meet an old friend of mine.
Just as soon, just as soon as I can find,
My shotgun, my bowling ball, and ol' my baseball bat
And that good for nuthin' god damned cat.

10 Sep 03 - 06:16 PM (#1016523)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca

Getting ready for Christmas


Catmas Carols

catmas carols 3

Catmas carols 2

Catmas carols

Cat-Mas Carols

10 Sep 03 - 09:59 PM (#1016624)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: GUEST,Gorgeous Gary

Two songs from my fellow filkers Cat Faber and Callie Hills (aka Echo's Children):

I Meant To Do That

Nine Cats

Meanwhile, our cat has apparently eaten my cookie...

-- Gary

11 Sep 03 - 10:53 AM (#1016958)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: GUEST,Arkie

"The Persian Kitty" has always been one of my favorites and Weird Al did one called the "Cats In The Kettle". Andrew Lloyd Webber and T.S. Eliot combined forces for a number of songs about cats including the following:

Naming of Cats
Old Gumbie Cat        
Rum Tum Tugger
Grizabella
Old Deuteronomy
Macavity
Mr. Mistoffeles

22 Mar 04 - 11:24 PM (#1143502)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Jim Dixon

Just discovered this one: MY LITTLE KITTEN SUSIE, sung by Lonnie Johnson on her album "Losing Game," originally released 1960. This is true blues; it doesn't seem the slightest bit ironic or cute. There is a sound sample at Barnes & Noble

... ev'rything go wrong.
Yes, she's my doctor when I'm sick. She's my comfort when ev'rything go wrong.
She's my little kitten Susie. She has my true lovin' till I'm dead an' gone.

She knows when I'm worried....

23 Mar 04 - 03:30 PM (#1144133)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Charley Noble

Here's a link to another cat song that I composed, the rescue of a ship's cat around the turn of the century:Rescue of the Ship's Cat

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

23 Mar 04 - 06:13 PM (#1144283)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Clinton Hammond

Ian anderson has written at least a couple...

Rupi's Dance

Old Black Cat

Hunt By Numbers

:-)

23 Mar 04 - 11:58 PM (#1144487)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: LadyJean

Nobody's mentioned "Feline American Princess". I don't know where you find the lyrics, but it's a great cat song.
Any truth to the story that Canadian cats say "Meow eh".

24 Mar 04 - 01:42 AM (#1144532)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: GUEST,Sooz

Check out this new Cat song!
http://www.rickcowling.com/ivegotcats.html

It's great! You can hear a clip on the artist's website.

06 Apr 04 - 03:13 PM (#1155946)
Subject: Lyr Add: BILL THE CAT (John Williamson)
From: Amergin

BILL THE CAT

John Williamson


We had a cat
His name was Bill
He caught our budgie on the window sill
One holy day, one sunday morn
Left only feathers on our back lawn
Oh no Bill, you can't do that
You silly pussy, you stupid cat
So we took him down, our family pet
And we left his balls with the family vet

meeoooww meeeoooww

Well the very next day he packed his bags
Left all his penthouse and playboy mags
How could we do it to the family vet
Go and leave his balls with the family vet
Well we get no postcards, no telephone calls
He's out in the bush somewhere, with no balls
And he's obsessed with sweet revenge
So he eats our parrots and our fairy wrens

(Chorus)
Yes he's mortified and we all regret
That we Left his balls with the family vet
X2

How he's highly sought by the feral choir
For his new found talent to sing much higher
Has no more time for female friends
Only parrots and fairy wrens
No sense of humour, ex-family pet
He's still angry, he's still upset
It still hurts, he can't forget
That we left his balls with the family vet

Chorus X2

06 Apr 04 - 04:33 PM (#1155990)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Charley Noble

Amergin-

Looks like you're typing to fast on this one:

Well the very next day he packed his bags
Left all his penthouse and playboy mags
How could we do it to the family CAT
Go and leave his balls with the family vet
Well we get no postcards, no telephone calls
He's out in the bush somewhere, with no balls
And he's obsessed with sweet revenge
So he eats our parrots and our fairy wrens

(Chorus)
Yes he's mortified and we all regret
That we Left his balls with the family vet
X2

NOW he's highly sought by the feral choir
For his new found talent to sing much higher
Has no more time for female friends
Only parrots and fairy wrens
No sense of humour, ex-family pet
He's still angry, he's still upset
It still hurts, he can't forget
That we left his balls with the family vet

Is this Australian? Any clues to the tune?

Charley Noble

06 Apr 04 - 04:40 PM (#1155994)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Amergin

OOps I forgot to proofread it....

How could we do it to the family CAT
Go and leave his balls with the family vet

that should read family PET

and yes John Williamson is a wonderful Australian country singer.

I don't have a tune but I do have a recording of it somewhere...

13 Nov 08 - 06:51 PM (#2493228)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: GUEST,Jim P

Well, as Bob Kanefsky tells it, he was in a group talking about Eric Bogel when someone said something like, "Can you believe that the same guy wrote 'Nobody's Moggy' and 'No Man's Land'?" To which someone replied, "Can you believe they're on the same album?" So naturally, Bob dediced that they should be the same song:

No Moggy's Land

13 Nov 08 - 08:25 PM (#2493297)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: oldhippie

In the DT, you'll find

"How Can I Keep From Purring"

14 Nov 08 - 02:48 AM (#2493446)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Anne Lister

I have a song called "The Small Black Cat" on my last album ...can contribute lyrics if anyone wishes ....and Grant Baynham has a brilliant song about a cat and a relationship but I'll have to hunt down the title as it's not coming to mind fast enough.

Anne
currently typing around Persia, who sits between edge of desk and keyboard, thus blocking the screen but in prime position for a cwtch. Sorry ...in English that would be a cuddle.

14 Nov 08 - 08:52 PM (#2494299)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Genie

Just out of curiosity, why do British cats say "Corrrrrrrrrr" but American cats say "Purrrrrrrrrr?"

Just regional dialects?

14 Nov 08 - 09:18 PM (#2494307)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: GUEST,dogman

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=98aFsM-J6eY

15 Nov 08 - 07:10 AM (#2494469)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: trevek

Not folky but there's "Stray Cat Strut" by Stray Cats.
"Love Cats by The Cure".

15 Nov 08 - 07:52 AM (#2494482)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: artbrooks

Cindy Mangsen has an album called Cat Tales, which includes a song called "Rudy's Big Adventure" about the cat who caught his head in the garbage disposal.

Nobody mentioned "The Cat Came Back"? And did the last few contributors notice that this is a four-year old thread? Not that it isn't worthy of revival, of course.

15 Nov 08 - 10:11 AM (#2494558)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Anne Lister

Yes, I noticed it was a four year old thread ... your point is?!

That YouTube clip had our cat leaving the room in a huff, tail four times its usual size!

Anne

16 Nov 08 - 08:39 AM (#2495055)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: moongoddess

Cindy Mangson's song about the cat getting his head caught in the garbage disposal is quite funny. All of her cat songs are. I have heard "Lord of the Pounce" on an XM Radio program all about cats. Another goodie, but not by Cindy.

26 Nov 08 - 07:25 PM (#2502496)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Genie

Where might one find Cindy Mangson's cat-and-garbage-disposal song, moon?

26 Nov 08 - 08:54 PM (#2502549)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: oldhippie

Genie, Its on her CD "Cat Tales". see compassrosemusic.com

05 Oct 11 - 02:36 PM (#3234416)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats - Corrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
From: Genie

F.A.P.(FELINE AMERICAN PRINCESS)
Lyrics By: Mercedes Lackey/ Leslie Fish (bluestar894)
Music By: Mercedes Lackey/Leslie Fish (Tim P. Ryan)

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 hairs
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, were they can't be brushed off or hid.
They looks 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, and 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 or sweet,
that's so charming, adorable, silly or fun
it'll just knock the stockings right 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.
I know you're a sucker for marvelous me!

05 Oct 11 - 04:08 PM (#3234462)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: saulgoldie

Genie, I think that is *the one* I have been looking for. Thanks a bunch! And thanks, everyone, for the other songs, too. There are some real gems here.

Saul

05 Oct 11 - 06:06 PM (#3234539)
Subject: RE: Songs for Cats...Corrrrrrrr.
From: Genie

Glad I could find it, Saul. (It's not that easy doing a forum search for "cat," since it will bring up everything that has that 3-letter sequence in it, e.g., "Mudcat," "Mudcatter," "catfish," "caterwauling," "cat house," etc.

There's a Revolutionary War (American) song called "Poor Kitty Popcorn" that I think may be in the DT or forum but I haven't found it. It's a real tear-jerker.