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#92-Kitty Kat Hop (1988)
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An old archive tape of a song never played to anyone...where the cats represent two people in my life...in a swing style and some bad puns to boot.
folk funny political sixties novelty gentle prolific idiosyncratic lehrer jefferson airplane ochs paxton steve goodman
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Tom Paxton meets Jefferson Airplane. Extremely prolific singer songwriter with a wide range of styles from bizarre novelty tunes and surrealistic poetic songs t
With more than 300 songs and counting and for more than 30 years, I have written in a variety of acoustic styles from novelty tunes to love songs to historical ballads to poetic surrealistic songs to retro-acoustic pop. From bizarre to traditional from funny to poignant, whatever style the song is in, the melodies are usually memorable and the lyrics unpredictable. This site will eventually contain rough often first take demos of my entire song catalogue. Many of the earliest songs when I first started writing will of course be shaky. So expect the songs to get better as time goes on. Feel free to come back and browse often as I will constantly be adding songs, one by one in chronological order, starting in 1974. If you are looking for some unusual songs to cover from a little known but unique artist, you have come to the right place. Just e-mail me. If you find a song here that intrigues you, but you don't like a line or two, or you think it needs a bridge, drop me an e-mail and maybe you can earn writer's credit if it gets that song to be recorded or performed.... otherwise just enjoy. You can become a Rob Lincoln fan at no cost to you. I promise that if you keep coming back there will be some real surprises along the way. While mostly acoustic, some original material will veer into folk rock and even 60's pop, but the garage rock and loudest material will also be found in full band arrangement at soundclick.com/abrasiveflowers Eventually some of these 300+ tunes may be rerecorded and make it on to CD, including a novelty CD that would be suitable for Dr. Demento or an historical ballad CD or a political song CD--but until then, this is the only site you can hear most of these songs. (A few of my songs CAN be found on songramp.com/RobLincoln and myspace.com/lessickandlincoln)
Song Info
Genre
Jazz Swing
Charts
Peak #107
Peak in subgenre #12
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1988
Uploaded
September 23, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.3 MB 128 kbps 2:31
Story behind the song
This is the first of my cat songs. Wish I had time this weekend to add a swing violin to the swing style guitar sound but alas I ran out of time so I am using this old archive recording from a 1988 cassette tape. Some of the imagery in the lyrics such as claws and kitty litter I use in my later songs, Cat Got My Tongue and Ferocious Kittens, and while those two songs are funnier, this one is actually about two real people in my life at the time, who are represented by the black and red kitty kats. Beware of some bad puns. Mp3 listeners rated this a 3.2 out of 5.0... Comments included: "I couldn’t hear the words too well in this version. Didn’t strike me too much upon 2 listenings" "Meow, meow" "Cute," "Lots of cat lovers out there might like this song"
Lyrics
The cat's in the cupboard, the mouse's on the run Put the mouse out before the cat is done Big orange kitty howling on that fence Never gets off you know it don't make sense Grovelling in the gravel it ain't for me I had 9 lives, I'm down to 5, I will get by without you A purrfect relationship this tail could be Don't get stuck climbing up that tree Clawing and scratching-I'm tired at that Don't hiss at me like some alley cat Groveling in the gravel that ain't for me I had 9 lives, I'm down to 5, I will get by without you Just a claw in my eye Just a bite off my heart Just a littered memory The mouse in the cupboard The red cat on the run Get the milk out and let's party some My feline friends they all love to sing Let's make music all through the spring Groveling in the gravel that ain't for me I had 9 lives, I'm down to 5, I will get by without you Just a claw in my eye Just a bite off my heart Just a littered memory Little black kitty purring up at me It's easier to let love be We'll be trying that catnip tonight I'll wisk her away in the moonlight I said I'll whisker away in the moonlight Groveling in the gravel that ain't for me I had 9 lives, I'm down to 5, I will get by without you Groveling in the gravel that ain't for me I had 9 lives, I'm down to 5, I will get by without you
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