The Cat Came Back                                     shriek! And the meat tasted foul for almost a     
(Harry Miller)                                        week.                                             
                                                                                                        
Old Mr. Johnson, he had troubles all his own, He      [chorus]                                          
had an old yeller tomcat who wouldn't leave his                                                         
home. He tried and he tried to give that cat          Now the atom bomb fell today. The H-bomb fell in  
away, He gave it to a man who was going far away.     the very same way. England went, France went,     
                                                      then the good ol' U. S. A. Even (fill in) was     
[chorus]:                                             blown away.                                       
    But the cat came back the very next                                                                 
    day, The cat came back, they thought              [chorus]                                          
    he was a goner, But the cat came back,                                                              
    he just wouldn't stay away, away,                                                                   
    away, away, No, no, no, no. No, no,                                                                 
    no, no.                                                                                             
                                                                                                        
Well the man around the corner hated that cat                                                           
with all his might, He loaded up his shotgun                                                            
with nails and dynamite. He waited and he waited                                                        
for that cat to come around, Ninety-seven pieces                                                        
of that man were all they found.                                                                        
                                                                                                        
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Well they gave a kid a quarter to let that cat                                                          
drown. He rowed him out to the river, there was                                                         
water all around. He tied a rope around his                                                             
neck, it must have weighed a pound. Now they're                                                         
draggin' that old river for the little boy that                                                         
drowned.                                                                                                
                                                                                                        
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They gave it to the butcher to kill today. He                                                           
put it through the meat grinder and ground away.                                                        
The cat disappeared with a blood-curdling