by Eleanor Farjeon (1881 - 1965)
Cat!
Language: English
Cat! Scat! Atter her, atter her, Sleeky flatterer Spit-fire chatterer, Scatter her, scatter her Off her mat! Wuff! Wuff! Treat her rough! Git her, git her, Whiskery spitter! Catch her, catch her, Green-eyed scratcher! Slithery, hisser, Don't miss her! Run till you're dithery, Hithery, thithery Pfitts! pfitts! How she spits! Spitch! Spatch! Can't she scratch! Scritching the bark Of the sycamore tree, She's reached her ark And's hissing at me -- Pfitts! Pfitts! Wuff! Wuff! Scat, cat! That's that!
Text Authorship:
- by Eleanor Farjeon (1881 - 1965) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Elizabeth Maconchy (1907 - 1994), "Cat!", published c1980, first performed 1980 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Creatures, no. 7, London : Chester Music [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2012-02-13
Line count: 26
Word count: 78