Chords for Cisco Houston - "The Cat Came Back" [Official Audio]

_ _ _ _ _ Well, old Mr.
Johnson had troubles all his own, he had an old yellow cat [C#] that wouldn't leave home.
[F#] 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 [B] was a goner, but the cat [C#] came back cause he wouldn't [F#] stay away. _ _ _
_ _ Well, they gave a boy a dollar for to set the cat afloat, and he took him up the river [C#] in a sack in a boat.
_ [F#] Now the fishing it was fine till the news got around that the boat was missing and the boy was drowned.
But the cat came back the very next day, they thought [G#] he was a goner, but the cat came back cause he wouldn't [F#] stay away. _
_ Well, the farmer on the corner said he'd shoot him on sight, he loaded up his gun [C#] full of rocks and dynamite.
[F#] 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 [B] was a goner, but the cat [G#] came back cause he wouldn't [F#] stay away. _
Well, they gave him to a man going up in the balloon, [C#] and they told him for to leave him with the man and the moon.
The [F#] 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 [G#] a goner, but the cat came back cause [F#] he wouldn't stay away. _ _ _
Well, they finally found a way this cat for to fix, they [C#] put him in an orange crate on Route 66.
[F#] 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, [G#] but the cat came back cause he wouldn't [F#] stay away. _ _ _
Then they took him to the shop where the meat was ground, and they [C#] dropped him in the hopper when the butcher wasn't round.
[F#] Well, the cat disappeared with the blood curdling shriek, and the town's meat tasted furry for a week.
But the cat came back the very next day, [B] they thought he was a goner, but the cat came back cause he [F#] wouldn't stay away. _ _
Then they took him to Cape Canaveral, and they put him in a place, and [A#m] they shot him in a rocket going [C#] way out in space.
[F#] 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 [B] a goner, but the cat came back [A#m] cause he wouldn't stay [F#] away. _