Mrs. Haberdashers Fat Cat

from They're Only Four but They Ride and Shoot Like Thousands! by The Sticky Tables

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lyrics

My neighborhood is crazy,
I live in Wiclef-Lane.
Everyday starts hazy,
people are insane.
Like Mrs. Haberdasher:
she's cooking for her pet.
Her husband died from heart attack -
now she's got a fat cat.

But I like being here!
feel nothing, I don't care.
I lean back and put up my feet,
Never worry 'bout anything anymore.

The cat is notorious
for raids on neighbor's kids.
It's acting really furious
but then fell in a pit.
There was a crazy laugh
which came from drunken Joe.
He put it in his deep fat fryer -
what a cruel show.

But I like being here
feel nothing, I don't care.
I lean back and put up my feet,
don't worry 'bout anything anymore.

Mrs Haberdasher -
completely lonesome now,
clenched her fist
and went to drunken Joe.
Never give a deep fat fryer
to a drunken man.
Otherwise a woman comes
and kills you with her pan.

But I like being here!
feel nothing, I don't care.
I lean back and put up my feet,
don't worry 'bout anything anymore.

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from They're Only Four but They Ride and Shoot Like Thousands!, released December 13, 2015
recorded and mixed by Carlos Engels
mastering by Holger Zimmermann, picnicrecords Berlin

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blues and funk combined with stories about strange people in strange places – that is the music of The Sticky Tables. They were formed in the end of 2012 in Berlin.

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