These two songs are on a live-event CD called Son of Blarney Fest,
one is performed by the Flying Fish Sailors, and one by Gordion Knot, two
Texas groups that play traditional songs, as well as new ones done in the
old styles:

The Cat Came Back (Flying Fish Sailors)

Now old Mr. Johnson, he had troubles of his own
he had a yellow tom cat that wouldn't leave his home
he tried and he tried, to give the cat away
he gave 'im to a man going far far away

but
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the cat came  back
the very next day
yes, the cat came back
we thought he was a goner
but the cat came back
he just couldn't stay away

Now the man around the corner
swore he'd shoot the cat on sight
he loaded up his shotgun
with nails and dynamite
he waited and he waited
for the cat to come around
97 pieces of the man was all they found

however
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he gave it to a little boy, with a dollar note
for to take it on the river in a little boat
they tied a rock around it's neck
it must've weighed a pound
now they drag the river
for a little boy that's drowned

be that as it may
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they took it to the place
where all the meat was ground
and they threw it in the hopper when the butcher was around
the cat disappeared with a blood-curdling
SHREEK
the town's hambuger tasted furry for a week

but
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now the A bomb fell, just the other day
and the H bomb fell in the very same way
Russia went and England went, and then the U.S.A.
The entire human race was gone, without a chance to pray

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weeks later, as the killing dust continued to settle it's velvety death upon
the land,
in the very tracks the roaches had left-
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A Fairy Story (Gordion Knot)

In the days of old in the kingdom bold
there lived a fearsome dragon
and the king he was in great distress
the country's spirits flaggin'

Until one day there came a knight
who was handsome bold and charming
and he slew the dragon with his sword
and a smile that was so disarming

with a hey and a ho and a hey notty no, a smile that was so disarming!

the king he asked him for his name
but the knight said do not bother-
for the name of a knight of the realm said he
is the same as any other

and the king said in my daughter's bed
tonight you'll take your leisure
and she'll repay you for your deeds
with a night of exhausting pleasure

with a hey and a ho and a hey notty no, a night of exhausting pleasure!

one daughter she had raven hair
a maiden young and chaste (ha!)
and she slept all night in the pale moonlight
naked to her waist

the other daughter she was fair
the fairest in the town
and she slept all night in the pale moonlight
naked from her small waist-
down

with a hey and a ho and a hey notty no, naked from her small waist down!

the knight he spent many an hour
behind the castle walls
but the ending to my story dears
isn't what it seems at all

for in neither bed with neither maid
was he repaid for his glory-
but he slept all night with the king instead
for this is a fairy story!

with a hey and a ho and a hey notty no, this was a fairy story!