Chords for The Cat Came Back (Remastered)

Well, everywhere I go, everyone seems to like this song.
It's so old now that it's new again.
[Eb] It's probably an old plantation song from the south [E] of the United States of America.
I hope you like it.
[A] _ _ [E] _
_ [A] _ _ _ [E] Now old Mr.
Johnson had worries of his own.
He had an old yellow cat that wouldn't leave home.
Tried everything he knew [A] to do to keep the cat away.
[E] He took him up to Canada and told him for to stay, but the cat [A] came back.
The very next day the [E] old cat came back.
Thought he was a goner, [D] but the cat came back.
[A] He wouldn't [E] stay away.
_ _ _ Now this cat was a terror, so they thought it was the best
to give him to a fella who was going out west.
Train ran around [A] a curve and it hit a broken rail.
Not a blessed soul aboard the train [E] lived to tell the tale,
but the cat came [A] back.
The very next day the old cat came back.
Thought he was a [A] goner, but the cat came back.
He wouldn't stay away.
[E] _ _
_ Now they throwed him in a kennel where the dog was asleep
and the bones of cats lay piled in a heap.
That kennel burst open and the dog come out the side.
His ears chewed off and holes in his hide, but the cat came back.
The very next day the old cat [A] came back.
Thought he was a goner, [D] but the cat [E] came back.
He wouldn't stay away.
_ _ _ Oh, they snuck into a shop when the butcher wasn't round
and they throwed him in the hopper where the meat is ground.
[A] The old cat [E] disappeared with a blood curdling shriek
and the town's mincemeat tasted furry for a week,
but the cat came back.
The very next day the old cat came back.
Thought he was a goner, but the cat came [B] back.
He wouldn't [A] stay away.
[E] _ _ [A] I like this bit.
_ [E] Now the farmer on the corner said he'd shoot the cat on sight.
Loaded up his gun with nails and dynamite.
He waited in the garden till the cat [Ab] came around.
Seven little pieces of the man was all they [B] found,
but the [A] cat came back.
The very next [B] day the old cat came [A] back.
Thought he was a goner, but the [D] cat came back.
He [A] wouldn't stay away.
[E] _ _ How many lives does a cat have? _
_ Well, they put him in a rocket ship heading for the stars.
Got a message back saying landed up on Mars.
[A] Said the men were doing fine and the monkey and the rat,
but they couldn't find the trace of the old [E] yellow cat
and the cat [A] showed up.
The very next day the old cat came home.
We don't know how he did it, [D] but the cat came back.
He wouldn't stay away.
[G] No, he wouldn't stay away.
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