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I Bought Me A Cat
Jun. 30th, 2007 10:40 amWell, 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!
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!
