I never much believed in reincarnation
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Thought it was only people's imagination
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But now I'm forced into some reconsideration
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'Cause something's happened to my cat
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That deserves some explanation
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William Shakespeare's in my cat
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My kitty is the bard
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He used to be a playwright
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Now he's digging up the yard
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He's still a cat in most respects
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He likes to meow and purr
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But now I introduce him as the cat
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That wrote Richard the third
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I took him to see Phantom
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He said it was quite nice
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But he can't go see Miss Saigon
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Until he kills some mice
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(Until he kills some mice)
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William Shakespeare's in my cat
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It sometimes seems so deep
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The guy who wrote Twelfth Night
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Chews on my socks while I'm asleep
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I'm really quite impressed
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I own the cat who wrote MacBeth
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But if something's rotten in this state
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It's just his fishy breath
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'Cause he wrote Romeo and Juliet
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But his greatest story yet
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Is coming back as someone's pet
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And gettin' neutered by the vet
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He got his paws caught in a net
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Then he said to be or not to meeeow!
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William Shakespeare's in my cat
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He rarely ever talks
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He makes his loudest statements
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Standing in the litter box
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He sleeps on all my shelves
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And throws my books about the house
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It doesn't sound like prose
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When he bats his squeaky mouse
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Sam Beckett's plays are witty,
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Same thing for Bernard Shaw,
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Oscar Wilde is pretty,
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But none of them have paws
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(None of them have paws)
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William Shakespeare's in my cat
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He chases bits of fluff
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John Milton's in my goldfish
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But I never liked his stuff
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I'm thinking that Franz Kafka
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Really came back as a bug
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And I hope Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Will stay underneath my rug
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'Cause he wrote Romeo and Juliet
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But his greatest story yet
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Is coming back as someone's pet
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And gettin' neutered by the vet
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He got his paws caught in a net
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Then he said to be or not to meeeow!
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Take it, Trevor!
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(Trevor's solo on what sounds like a Jew's-Harp-style instrument)
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He wrote Romeo and Juliet
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But his greatest story yet
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Is coming back as someone's pet
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And gettin' neutered by the vet
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He got his paws caught in a net
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Then he said to be or not to meeeow!
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William Shakespeare's In My Cat
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The Arrogant Worms |