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The Cat Won't Work Tonight

The Cat Won't Work Tonight lyrics by John Martyn. Running jumping standing still a ghoul up there Some goon up on Glastonbury Tor Been itching The cat can’t...

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The Cat Won't Work Tonight

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Running jumping standing still a ghoul up there

Some goon up on Glastonbury Tor

Been itching

The cat can’t work tonight

The cat just will not work tonight

I know that the cat won’t work tonight

I tell you this cat won’t work tonight

You can watch the Sun fall in to my sweetest embrace

You can even try to show me some baptist better place

You can watch me as I try to fly

Watch the stars as your heart tries not to cry

The cat won’t work, the cat won’t work tonight

I'm telling you, the cat don’t work, the cat don’t work tonight

The cat won’t work, the cat won’t work tonight

Been itching, been scratching, been stopping, been starting

Got a face like a hatchet, mother like a spanner with a half shut knife

Out on the tiles with me all the time

Walking, fooling, child’s and wives

The cat won’t work, won’t work tonight

I tell you the cat won’t work, won’t work tonight, oh no

The cat won’t work, the cat won’t work tonight

Running, jumping, standing still

Like a goon up there on Goon Hilly Down

Watch the dilly dilly run, huh, let them talents fall down

The cat won’t work, the cat won’t work tonight, I'm telling you

The cat can’t work, the cat can’t work tonight

Looking like a cat’s paw, feeling like a rabbits foot

Maybe get lucky but it must be good

The cat can’t work, the cat don’t work tonight

Too busy itching and scratching, looking the patch right over

Too busy scratching and itching, looking out for bitching

I tell you now the cat don’t work

The cat don’t work tonight

The cat don’t work, the cat don’t work tonight

The cat don’t work, the cat don’t work tonight

Some other time, send me a line

Too busy itching, scratching, bitching, hatching plots and schemes and plans

Just can’t work

The cat don’t work, the can don’t work tonight

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