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Well old Mister Johnson had troubles all his own
He had an old yeller cat that wouldn't leave home
Tried everything he knew to get the cat to stay away
Even took him up to Canada and told him for to stay
But the cat came back the very next day
Thought he was a goner but the cat came back
'Cause he wouldn't stay away
Well he gave a boy a dollar for to set the cat afloat
And he took him up the river in a sack in a boat
Now the fishin' it was fine 'til the news got around
That the boat was missin' and the boy was drowned
But the cat came back the very next day
They thought he was a goner but the cat came back
'Cause he wouldn't stay away
Well the farmer on the corner said he'd shoot him on sight
He loaded up his gun full of rocks and dynamite
The explosion was heard all over town
Little pieces of the man was all that they found
But the kitty came back the very next day
Thought he was a goner but the cat came back
'Cause he wouldn't stay away
Well they gave him to a man goin' up in a balloon
And they told him for to leave him with the man in the moon
The balloon it busted back to Earth it head
Seven miles away they picked the man up dead
But the kitty came back the very next day
They thought he was a goner but the cat came back
'Cause he wouldn't stay away
Well they finally found a way this cat for to fix
They put him in an orange crate on Route 66
Come a ten ton truck with a twenty ton load
Scattered pieces of the orange crate all down the road
But the cat came back the very next day
They thought he was a goner but the cat came back
'Cause he wouldn't stay away
Then they took him to the shop where the meat was ground
And they dropped him in the hopper when the butcher wasn't 'round
Well the cat disappeared with a blood curdlin' shriek
And the town's meat tasted furry for a week
But the cat came back the very next day
They thought he was a goner but the cat came back
'Cause he wouldn't stay away
Then they took him to Cape Canaveral and they put him in a place
They shot him in a rocket goin' way out in space
And they finally thought the cat was out of human reach
Next day they got a call from Miami Beach
And the cat came back the very next day
They thought he was a goner but the cat came back
'Cause he wouldn't stay away
