Introduction
This is a comic song that is about an old farmer that is trying to get rid of a cat that won’t leave his home. No matter how far away he takes it, the cat keeps coming back!
There are a lot of different versions of this song, and you can even try to write some verses of your own.
The key is to remember that this song is filled with dark humor. That means that the ideas are things that you’re not really supposed to laugh at, but you can’t help it. One example is in Jingle Bells. In the last verse, the guy walks out on the snow and falls on his back. It’s kind of funny, as long as it’s not you, ya know?
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The Lesson
Sheet Music
Piano
Ukulele
Guitar
Recorder
Xylophone or On-Screen Piano
Don’t Forget!
You can look up the ukulele chords and guitar chords and get help with reading tablature,
playing the recorder or rhythm (percussion) instruments right here on my website!
Backing Track (Sing Your Own Lyrics)
Sing Your Own Lyrics to this Backing Track
Sample Verses
He gave it to a man going up in a balloon
And told him for to take it to the Man in the Moon.
The balloon came down about ninety miles away,
And where he is now, well, I dare not say.
The cat was a possessor of a family of her own
With seven little kittens, till there came a cyclone.
It blew the houses all apart and tossed the cat around;
The air was filled with kittens, and not a one was ever found.
They took him down to Cape Canaveral and put him in a place
And they shot him in a satellite way into space
They thought that cat was beyond human reach
Then they got a phone call from Miami Beach, sayin’