I Bought Me A Cat

[bigmacbear]

Well, not really.

Since participating in the American Choral Masterpieces festival, I'm reminded of a silly prank in my college choir perpetrated by one of the tenors and repeated a lot by yours truly. The song was Aaron Copland's setting of "I Bought Me A Cat" and the actual song goes like this:

I bought me a cat, my cat pleased me.
I fed my cat under yonder tree.
My cat says fiddle-eye-fee.

The prank was to make a "filk" of just this part of the song, that went:

I bought me a cat, it didn't please me.
I hanged my cat from yonder tree.
My cat went *ack*!
(here simulate the sound of the cat being strangled)

Now I can't get that bit of doggerel out of my head. Ack!