The Cat’s predicament (George Noyes Rockwell)

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• (Posted 2023-12-04)  CPDL #77817:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-04).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 443 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The Cat’s predicament
Composer: George Noyes Rockwell
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1920 Theo. Presser Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

“I am cold,” bewailed the cat,
“Cannot find a mouse or rat,
But I daren’t go near the flat.”
“Meow! For my life!”

’Cause the master of the house
Is as timid as a mouse
In the presence of his spouse,
“Meow! That’s his wife!”

Oh, a flaming tongue is hers,
And when ere she asks for furs,
Tho’ he’s busted, he concurs,
“Meow! That’s agrees!”

And he murmurs with a sigh,
“You shall have them by and by,”
And that wild gleam in his eye,
“Meow! Might mean me!”