Samurai Moggy II: The Moggy Strikes Back
Words by Joe Kesselman © 1993
TTTO Nobody's Moggy Now by Eric Bogle

C                         Dm
Somebody's Bulldog by the side of the road
G7                                F               C
Somebody's Mack truck which won't move until it's towed
F                  B7            C              A7
Someone's eighteen wheeler whose tires all went flat
         D7                              G         G7
When it tried to argue right of way with Honorable Cat.
C            C7           F                 Dm
Yesterday it ran amok and caused pet owners grief
   Am                           D7            G7
Producing pancaked puppies at a rate beyond belief
         C                   C7                  F           B7
Now it's halfway through the guard rail with its driver underneath
     C        G        C    G7
It's nobody's Kenworth now.

You see, cats that dress as Samurai, though very seldom found
Are cats that guard their honor and will never yield their ground
So when the truck bore down on him to add him to its list
Our Tomokato proved that driver "never would be missed" (*)
So listen to me, truckers all: If you don't want to wreck
Don't try to argue with that cat. He'll send you straight to heck
And you'll lie there on the shoulder with your truck upon your neck
Don't tangle with things that Meow!



From More Songs of the Cat
From The Caterwaul / Joe Kesselman / keshlam@prodigy.com
From http://pages.prodigy.com/keshlam/s_moggy2.html
Tagged: cats

Inspiration: "Samurai Moggy" by Gary McGath

Performance notes: Ideally, the quoted phrase (*) should break
into the appropriate melody from The Mikado, as a musical reference back to Gary's song. It takes a bit of fiddling, but it does work.

Regarding scansion: "You see" is a pair of grace notes. The rest
of it should be fairly obvious.

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