The Cat Came Back-Cisco Houston/Woody Guthrie

[ti:The Cat Came Back] [ar:Cisco Houston] [al:The Very Best Of] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.17]The Cat Came Back - Cisco Houston/Woody Guthrie [00:01.17]Written by：Harry S. Miller. Adapted by Cisco Houston. [00:02.29]Well old Mr Johnson [00:03.62]Had troubles all his own [00:04.96]He had an old yellow cat [00:06.25]That wouldn't leave home [00:07.61] [00:08.63]Tried everything he knew to do [00:10.13]To get the cat to stay away [00:11.34]Even took him up to Canada [00:12.42]And told him for to stay [00:13.46]But the cat came back the very next day [00:15.94]Thought he was a goner but the cat came back [00:18.00]`Cause he wouldn't stay away [00:20.57] [00:23.57]Well they give a boy a dollar [00:24.57]For to set the cat afloat [00:25.71]And he took him up the river [00:26.96]In a sack and a boat [00:28.16] [00:29.23]Well the fishin' it was fine [00:30.24]Till the news got around [00:31.16]That the boat was missing [00:32.37]And the boy was drowned [00:33.57]But the cat came back the very next day [00:35.96]Thought he was a goner but the cat came back [00:38.31]`Cause he wouldn't stay away [00:40.62] [00:41.27]Well the farmer on the corner [00:42.53]Said he'd shoot him on sight [00:43.67]And he loaded up his gun [00:44.83]Full of rocks and dynamite [00:45.95] [00:46.70]The explosing was hard [00:48.16]Heard all over town [00:49.18]Little pieces of the man [00:50.46]Was all that they found [00:51.45]But the cat came back the very next day [00:53.73]Thought he was a goner but the cat came back [00:56.09]`Cause he wouldn't stay away [00:58.28] [00:58.95]Now they gave him to a man [01:00.18]Going up in the balloon [01:01.23]And they told him for to leave him [01:02.60]With the man in the moon [01:03.75] [01:04.34]Well the balloon got busted [01:05.53]Back to earth it head [01:06.75]And seven miles away [01:07.92]They picked the man up dead [01:09.12]But the cat came back the very next day [01:11.39]Thought he was a goner but the cat came back [01:13.69]`Cause he wouldn't stay away [01:16.05] [01:17.72]Well they finally found a way [01:18.87]This cat for to fix [01:19.84]They put him in an orange crate [01:21.16]On Route 66 [01:22.05] [01:23.07]Come a ten ton truck [01:24.27]With a twenty ton load [01:25.41]Scattered pieces of the orange crate [01:26.60]All down the road [01:27.69]But the cat came back the very next day [01:29.91]Thought he was a goner but the cat came back [01:32.16]`Cause he wouldn't stay away [01:34.51] [01:36.06]Well they took him to the shop [01:37.36]Where the meat was ground [01:38.18]And they dropped him in the hopper [01:39.46]When the butcher wasn't 'round [01:40.87] [01:41.56]Well the cat disappeared [01:42.69]With a blood curdling shriek [01:43.71]And the town's meat [01:44.75]Tasted furry for a week [01:46.00]But the cat came back the very next day [01:48.10]Thought he was a goner but the cat came back [01:50.35]`Cause he wouldn't stay away [01:52.55] [01:53.42]Let me put in place in abbollin day [01:56.12]And they put him in a place [01:57.46]Shot him in a US rocket [01:58.66]Going way out in space [01:59.77] [02:00.67]Well they finally thought the cat [02:01.61]Was out a' human reach [02:02.75]Next day they got a call [02:03.92]From Miami Beach and [02:05.05]But the cat came back the very next day [02:07.28]Thought he was a goner but the cat came back [02:09.72]`Cause he wouldn't stay away