Everybody Wants to Be a Cat

## Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat

"**Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat**" is a song featured in Disney's *The Aristocats*.

## Lyrics

* Original
* Reprise

**Scat Cat**: (Spoken) 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

**Thomas O'Malley**: Tell me!

Everybody's pickin' up on that feline beat

'Cause everything else is obsolete

**Scat**: Strickly high button shoes!

**O'Malley**: A square with a horn

Makes you wish you weren't born

**Scat**: Every time he plays

**O'Malley**: But, with a square in the act

You can set music back

**Scat**: To the caveman days

Cha cha ba dum bo day

**O'Malley**: I've heard some corny birds

Who tried to sing

**Scat**: But still a cat's the only cat

Who knows how to swing

**Billy Boss the Russian Cat**: Who wants to dig a long-haired gig

Or stuff like that...

**O'Malley and Scat**: ...When everybody wants to be a cat?

A square with a horn

Makes you wish you weren't born

Every time he plays

**O'Malley**: Oh a rinky tinky tinky

**O'Malley and Scat**: With a square in the act

You can set music back

To the caveman days

**Marie**: Oh a rinky tinky tinky

**Marie, O'Malley and Scat**: Yes, everybody wants to be a cat

Because a cat's the only cat

Who knows where it's at

While playin' jazz

You always has a welcome mat

'Cause everybody digs a swinging cat

**Shun Gon the Chinese Cat**: Oh, boy, fellas, let's rock this joint!

**Billy Boss the Russian Cat**: Ha ha! Groovy, cats! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

**Shun Gon the Chinese Cat**: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Egg Fu Yong! Hya ha ha ha ha ha!

Fortune cookie always wrong! Hya ha ha!

Now, that's a hot one! Hye he he!

**Thomas O'Malley**: How about you and me, Duchess?

**Duchess**: Let's swing it, Thomas!

**Berlioz**: Groovy, Mama, groovy!

**Scat Cat:**

Blow it, small fry, blow it!

**Toulouse**: [blows flat note on trumpet]

**Shun Gon the Chinese Cat**: Boy, he blew it!

**Peppo**: But he was close!

(Harp begins)

**Duchess**: If you want to turn me on

Play your horn, don't spare the tone

And blow a little soul into the tune

**O'Malley**: Let's take it to another key

**Scat**: Modulate, and wait for me

I'll take a few ad-libs and pretty soon...

**O'Malley**: The other cats will all commence

Congregatin' on the fence

Underneath the alley's only light

**Duchess**: Where every note is out of sight

(Jazz music begins again)

**Scat & Crew**: Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat!

**Scat**: Hallelujah!

**Scat & Crew**: Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat!

**Scat**: I'm telling you!

**Scat & Crew**: Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat!

**Scat**: Yeah!

**Scat & Crew**: Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat!

**Scat**: Mmmm!

**Scat & Crew**: Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat!

**Scat**: Hallelujah!

**Scat & Crew**: Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat...!

**Alley cats**: Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat!

Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat!

**Frou-Frou**: Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat!

**Uncle Waldo**: Everybody... Whoopee! Everybody wants to be a cat

**Alley cats**: Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be...a...cat!

### Videos

#### Official

The Aristocats - Everybody wants to be a cat (movie ending)Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat (Original Soundtrack Version)The Aristocats OST - 4. Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat

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