Where can I find the lyrics to the song "The Cat Came Back"?!
Question: They sang this song on an episode of "The Muppet Show" long ago, and it was kind of a cute song. It went, "The cat came back, he couldn't stay away; the cat came back on the very next day..."
Where can I find the rest of the lyrics to this song?
Answers: They sang this song on an episode of "The Muppet Show" long ago, and it was kind of a cute song. It went, "The cat came back, he couldn't stay away; the cat came back on the very next day..."
Where can I find the rest of the lyrics to this song?
Versions of the song
There are many versions of the song. In one, the cat is yellow. One version goes something like:
first verse
Now old Mr. Johnson had some troubles of his own,
He had a scarlet cat that just wouldn't leave his home,
He tried and he tried to give the cat away,
He gave it to a man going far far away.
chorus
But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner,
The cat came back, he just wouldn't stay away.
alternate chorus
But the cat came back he wouldn't stay away,
He was sitting on the porch the very next day.
Every second beat is emphasized (emphasized beats are shown in capitalized lyrics).
Each line of text in the above has eight beats, and usually the chords fall (piano) or begin (organ) on the capitalized words.
The chord progression repeats every 8 beats, so one might think of the song as being in either 2/ time or 8/ time (whichever denominator you use for reference time, i.e. 2/4 or 8/4 time if the beat is a quarter note, etc.). The pattern of 2/ and 8/ is very similar to the beat pattern in Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, but phase-shifted by 180 degrees (since the song starts on a weak beat rather than the strong beat beginning of Twinkle Twinkle).
[edit] Medleys
The song helped launch the career of children's entertainer Fred Penner. He has used the song as part of a medley that includes the tune heard in (Hit the Road Jack) with lyrics changed to "Hit the Road Cat".
And the Cat Came Back" (also known as "The Cat Came Back" or simply "The Cat") is a children's folk song originally written by Harry S. Miller[1] under the title of "The Cat Came Back: A Comic ***** Absurdity" in 1893. The song is humorous in nature, telling a silly tale about a man who had a cat that he did not want, and when he tried to get rid of the cat, the cat kept coming back.
The song was used as the basis for the 1988 short animated film The Cat Came Back by Cordell Barker. It was also performed by Rowlf the Dog on a 1980 episode of The Muppet Show
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