Old man Johnson had troubles of his own (duwap!)
He had a yellow cat that wouldn't leave his home (duwap!)
He tried and he tried to keep the cat away,
He gave it to a man goin' far far away!

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BUT-
The cat came back,
the very next day,
Oh the cat came back,
they thought he was a goner,
But the cat came back,
he just couldn't stay away away,
Hey Hey Hey!

He gave it to a man goin' away out west (duwap!)
Told him to give the cat to the girl he loved best (duwap!)
First the train hit a bump, then it jumped a rail,
And no one is alive to tell the gruesome tail.

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He gave it to boy with a dollar note (duwap!)
Told him to take the coat way out in a boat (duwap!)
Tied a weight around his neck, must of weighed a hundred pounds,
And they dragged the river for the little boy who had drowned!

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He gave it to a man goin' up in a balloon (duwap!)
Told to give the cat to the Man in the Moon (duwap!)
The balloon crashed down, sixty-five miles away,
And where the man is now no one can say!

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A nieghboring man said he'd shoot the cat on sight (duwap!)
He load up his shotgun with rounds of dynamite (duwap!)
He waited and he waited for the cat to come around,
Ninety-eight pieces of man were all that they found!

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The A-bomb fell, just the other day (du-wap)
The H-bomb fell, in the very same way (du-wap)
China fell (Yeah!!!)
Japan fell (Yeah!!!)
And then the U-S-A... (Awh...)
Mankind was gone without a chance to pray...

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