Black Cat Blues

I got a big black cat who sits in my back door

He catches every rat run across my floor

Now everybody wants to buy my kitty

Everybody wants to buy my kitty

Everybody wants to buy my kitty

I wouldn't sell that cat to save your soul

If it wasn't for that cat, I wouldn't know what I would do

Rats cutting up all of my clothes and shoes

Now everybody wants to buy my kitty

Everybody wants to buy my kitty

Everybody wants to buy my kitty

I wouldn't sell that cat to save your soul

I been had this old cat, now, for three, four years

Didn't nobody want him till I brought him here

Now everybody wants to buy my kitty

Everybody wants to buy my kitty

Everybody wants to buy my kitty

I wouldn't sell that cat to save your soul

(spoken: Catch a rat!)

Before I got that cat, rats had holes all in my walls

Since I brought her home you can't find no holes at all

Now everybody wants to buy my kitty

Everybody wants to buy my kitty

Everybody wants to buy my kitty

I wouldn't sell that cat to save your soul

You have seen a-lots of cats and you going to see a-lots more

I got one I carries everywhere I go

Now everybody wants to buy my kitty

Everybody wants to buy my kitty

Everybody wants to buy my kitty

I wouldn't sell that cat to save your soul

(spoken: Aw, play it now

Catch a rat!)