The Cat Came Back - Cisco Houston

Well old Mr. Johnson 
 had troubles all his own
He had an old yellow cat 
  that wouldn't leave home
Tried everything he knew to do 
  to get the cat to stay away
Even took him up to Canada 
  and told him for to stay

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  But the cat came back, the very next day,
  Thought he was a goner, but the cat came back
  `Cause he wouldn't stay away

Well they give a boy a dollar 
  for to set the cat afloat
And he took him up the river 
  in a sack and a boat
Well the fishin' it was fine 
  till the news got around
That the boat was missing 
  and the boy was drowned...

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Well the farmer on the corner 
  said he'd shoot him on sight
And he loaded up his gun 
  full of rocks and dynamite
The gun went off, 
  heard all over town
Little pieces of the man 
  was all that they found...

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Well they finally found a way 
  this cat for to fix
They put him in an orange crate 
  on Route 66
Come a ten ton truck 
  with a twenty ton load
Scattered pieces of the orange crate 
  all down the road...

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Now they gave him to a man 
  going up in the balloon 
And they told him for to leave him 
  with the man in the moon
Well the balloon got busted, 
  back to earth it head, 
And seven miles away 
   they picked the man up dead...

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Well they took him to the shop 
  where the meat was ground
And they dropped him in the hopper 
  when the butcher wasn't 'round
Well the cat disappeared 
  with a blood-curdling shriek
And the town's meat 
  tasted furry for a week...

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Well, they took him to Cape Canaveral 
  and they put him in a place
Shot him in a U.S. rocket 
  going way out in space
Well they finally thought the cat 
  was out a' human reach