Well, little lady let me elucidate here

Everybody wants to be a cat

Because a cat's the only cat

Who knows where it's at

Tell me, everybody's pickin' up on

That feline beat 'cause

Everything else is obsolete,

A square with a horn

Makes you wish you weren't born

Ever'time he plays but with

A square in the act

You can set music back to the caveman days

I've heard some corny birds who tried to sing

Still a cat's, the only cat who knows how to swing

Who wants to dig a long haired gig

Or stuff like that?

When everybody wants to be a cat

A square with the horn makes you

Wish you weren't born, ever'time he plays

And with a square in the act

You gonna can set music back

To the cave man days

Everybody wants to be a cat

Because a cat's, the only cat

Who knows where it's at

When playin' jazz you always has a welcome mat

'Cause everybody digs a swingin' cat

Everybody, everybody

Everybody wants to be a cat, hallelujah

Everybody, everybody

Everybody wants to be a cat

Everybody, everybody

Everybody want to be a cat

Everybody, everybody

Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat (F - Various Artists