The Aristocats - Everybody wants to be a cat
"Everybody Wants to Be a Cat" is a song featured in Disney's The Aristocats.
Lyrics[]
Scat Cat: (Spoken) Well, little lady, let me elucidate here
Everybody wants to be a cat
Because a cat's the only cat
Who knows where it's at
Thomas O'Malley: Tell me!
Everybody's pickin' up on that feline beat
'Cause everything else is obsolete
Scat Cat: Strickly high button shoes!
Thomas O'Malley: A square with a horn
Makes you wish you weren't born
Scat Cat: Every time he plays
Thomas O'Malley: But, with a square in the act
You can set music back
Scat Cat: To the caveman days
Cha cha ba dum bo day
Thomas O'Malley: I've heard some corny birds
Who tried to sing
Scat Cat: But still a cat's the only cat
Who knows how to swing
Billy Boss the Russian Cat: Who wants to dig a long-haired gig
Or stuff like that...
O'Malley and Scat: ...When everybody wants to be a cat?
A square with a horn
Makes you wish you weren't born
Every time he plays
Thomas O'Malley: Oh a rinky tinky tinky
O'Malley and Scat: With a square in the act
You can set music back
To the caveman days
Marie: Oh a rinky tinky tinky
Marie, O'Malley and Scat:' Yes, everybody wants to be a cat
Because a cat's the only cat
Who knows where it's at
While playin' jazz
You always has a welcome mat
'Cause everybody digs a swinging cat
Shun Gon the Chinese Cat: Oh, boy, fellas, lets rock this joint!
Billy Boss the Russian Cat: Ha ha! Groovy, cats! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Shun Gon the Chinese Cat: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Egg Fu Yong! Hya ha ha ha ha ha!
Fortune cookie always wrong! Hya ha ha!
Now, that's a hot one! Hye he he!
Thomas O'Malley: How about you and me, Duchess?
Duchess: Let's swing it, Thomas!
Berlioz: Groovy, Mama, groovy!
Scat Cat: Blow it, small fry, blow it!
Toulouse: [blows flat note on trumpet]
Shun Gon the Chinese Cat: Boy, he blew it!
Peppo: But he was close!
(Harp begins)
Duchess: If you want to turn me on
Play your horn, don't spare the tone
And blow a little soul into the tune
Thomas O'Malley: Let's take it to another key
Scat Cat: Modulate, and wait for me
I'll take a few ad-libs and pretty soon...
Thomas O'Malley: The other cats will all commence
Congregatin' on the fence
Underneath the alley's only light
Duchess: Where every note is out of sight
(Jazz music begins again)
Scat & Crew: Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat!
Scat Cat: Hallelujah!
Scat & Crew: Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat!
Scat Cat: I'm telling you!
Scat & Crew: Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat!
Scat Cat: Yeah!
Scat & Crew: Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat!
Scat Cat: Mmmm!
Scat & Crew: Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat!
Scat Cat: Hallelujah!
Scat & Crew: Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat...!
Reprise[]
Alley cats: Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat!
Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat!
Frou-Frou: Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat!
Uncle Waldo: Everybody... Whoopee! Everybody wants to be a cat
Alley cats: Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be...a...cat!
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