Now old Uncle John had troubles of his own. He had an ol' yellow cat that wouldn't leave home. He tried everything he knew to keep the cat away - Even gave it to a preacher an' he told it for to stay, but Chorus The cat came back, the cat came back, I thought he was a goner but the cat came back - Cos he wouldn't stay away. Now the cat was a terror and he thought it was best - To give it to a fella who was headin' out west. The train went around the corner an' it hit a broken rail --- Not a soul aboard the train lived to tell the tale, but Chorus He gave the ol' cat to the man in a balloon. He told him to leave it with the man in the moon. The balloon it bursted and everybody said --- Ten miles away, they picked the man up dead, but Now the farmer on the corner's gonna kill the cat on site - He's loaded up his gun full of nails an' dynamite --- He waited in the garden til' the cat came 'round --- Seven little pieces of the man was all they found, but Chorus