Everybody Wants to be a Cat - The Aristocats (1970)
Scat Cat:
Well, little lady, let me elucidate here
Everybody wants to be a cat
Because a cat's the only cat
Who knows were it's at
Thomas O'Malley:
Tell me, everybody's pickin' up on that feline beat
'Cause everything else is obsolete
Scat:
Strickly high button shoes!
A square with a horn makes you wish you weren't born
Everytime he plays
Tom:
But with a square in the act
You can set music back
Scat:
To the cave man days, cha cha ba dum bo day
Tom:
I've heard some corny birds who who tried to sing
Scat:
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,
Tom:
When everybody wants to be a cat?
Tom and Scat:
A square with a horn makes you wish you weren't born
Everytime he plays
Tom:
Oh a rinky tinky tinky
Tom and Scat: With a square in the act you can set music back
To the cave man days
Marie:
Oh a rinky tinky tinky
Marie & Tom:
Yes, everybody wants to be a cat
Because a cats the only cat who knows where it's at
While playin' jazz you always have a welcom 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!
Shun Gon the Chinese Cat:
Shanghai, Honk Kong, Egg Foo Yong
Fortune cookie always wrong
That's a hot one!
(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
Tom:
Let's take it to another key
Scat:
Modulate, and wait for me
I'll take a few ad-libs and pretty soon...
Tom:
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:
Hallejuah!
Scat & Crew:
Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat!
Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat!
Everybody, everybody, everybody now