Everybody Wants to be a Cat - Duke Special and Divine Comedy

A wonderful live version of the Aristocrats song "Everyone wants to be a cat". The masks were made by the musician's children.

Everybody wants to be a cat,
because a cat's the only cat
who knows where it's at.
Everybody's pickin' up on that feline beat,
'cause everything else is obsolete.
Now a square with a horn,
can make you wish you weren't born,
ever'time he plays;
and with a square in the act,
he can set music back
to the caveman days.
I've heard some corny birds who tried to sing,
but a cat's the only cat
who knows how to swing.
Who wants to dig
a long-haired gig
or stuff like that?
When everybody wants to be a cat.
A square with that horn,
makes you wish you weren't born,
ever'time he plays;
and with a square in the act,
he's gonna set this music back
to the Stone Age days.
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 swingin' cat.
Everybody digs a swingin' cat.

Neil Hannon from the Divine Comedy and Peter Wilson, aka Duke Special duelled at Vicar Street, Dublin on Tues 14 October 2008 as part of the Amnesty International Small Places Tour.

This (unofficial) video was taken with N95 - sorry about the quality!

For more on the gig please visit my blog on http://thisiswhatido.org

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Music

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• Amnesty
• International
• Small
• Places
• Tour
• Divine
• Comedy
• Duke
• Special
• Neil
• Hannon
• Aristocrats
• Disney
• songs
• live
• music
• concert

[GlossyHair]

Miaow !

[RomanticideMusic]

Absolutely amazing!!!! Wouldve done anything to be there to see that!

[stinkogirl]

My two favourite fellows. Doing something pretty funny. Very good!

[mikeystrafford]

D'ya think Neil Hannon has any rockabilly roots???

Mikey xx

[thefishingcat]

amazing, thanks for sharing - a classic Disney theme sung by two great artists!

[sirsparrow]

fantastic cover!