Folk & Traditional Song Lyrics www.traditionalmusic.co.uk The Cat Came Back 
The Cat Came Back
 Am E7 Am E7 Old Mr. Johnson had trouble all his own Am E7 Am E7 He had a yellow cat that wouldn't leave his home Am Dm Am E7 He tried in every way to keep that cat away Am E7 Am E7 Took him up to Canada and told him for to stay
 Am Dm Am E7 But the cat came back the very next day
 Am Dm Am E7 The cat came back, they thought he was a goner
 Am Dm Am E7 Am Dm Am E7 But the cat came back, he just wouldn't stay away 
On a telegraph wire the birds were sitting in a bunch He saw an even number,said he'd have 'em for his lunch Climbed softly up the pole until he reached the top Put his foot upon the 'lectric wire, tied him in a knot 
This cat had company out in the backyard Somebody threw a boot and threw it awful hard Hit the cat behind the ear and he thought it was a slight And down came a brick and knocked him out of sight 
They threw him in the kennel where the dog was asleep And the bones of cats lay piled in a heap That kennel burst apart and the dog flew out the side With his ears chewed off and holes in his hide 
They sneaked him in a shop with the butcher not around And they dropped him in the hopper where the meat was ground The cat despaired with a blood-curdling shriek And that shops hamburger tasted furry for a week 
They put him in a cotton sack and gave him to a girl Who'd started on a bicycle all around the world Well, over there in China a terrible wreak was found She's singing now in heaven with the angels all around 
Now this cat was a terror and they thought it would be best To give him to a feller who was going way out west Train ran round a curve and hit a broken rail Not a blessed soul aboard that train lived to tell the tale 
The cat was a possessor of a family all its own With seven little kittens till there was a cyclone Blew the houses all apart and tossed the cat around The air was full of kittens and not a one was found 
Away across the ocean they did send the cat at last Vessel only out a day and taking water fast People all began to pray, the boat began to toss A great big gust of wind came by and every soul was lost 
They gave the cat to a man in a balloon And told him to give him to the man in the moon But the balloon it busted and everybody said Ten miles away they picked the man up dead 
At last they found a way this cat to really fix They put him in an orange crate on highway 66 Come a ten ton truck with a twenty ton load Scattered pieces of that orange crate a mile down the road 
They put him on a boat bound for Sidneytown They thought with all that rain there he'd surely drowned When the rain came down for the 92nd day That whole darn city just a floated out the bay 
The farmer on the corner said he'd shoot that cat on sight Loaded up his shotgun full of nails and dynamite And he hid in the garden till the cat came round But 97 pieces of that man were all they found 
They put him on the White House lawn, I'll tell the reason why With all the golfballs flying, they thought he'd surely die Well the very next morning, what do you think they found 64 squirrels lying dead upon the ground 
Gave him to a little boy with a dollar note Who was going out to sea in an open boat They tied a rock around his neck, it must have weighed a pound Now they're dragging up the river, cause the little boy was
 drowned 
They took him down to Cape Canaveral and they put him into place 
And they shot him in a satellite way up into space They thought that the cat was beyond human reach And then they got a phone call from Miami Beach 
An H bomb fell just the other day, A bomb fell in the very same way Russia went, England went, then the USA The whole human race gone without a chance to pray 
Recorded Marais & Miranda, several others. DC, SOF