Cat's in the Kettle (a variation of Cat's in the Cradle, by Harry Chapin 1974)

Did you ever think, when you eat Chinese, it ain’t pork or chicken but a fat siamese?
Yet the food tastes great so you don’t complain, but that’s not chicken in your chicken chow mein
Seems to me I ordered sweet-and-sour pork, but Garfield’s on my fork, he’s purrin’ here on my fork.

There’s a Cat in the Kettle at the Peking Moon, the place that I eat every day at noon
They can feed you cat and you’ll never know, once they wrap it up in dough, boys
They fry it real crisp in dough.

Chou Lin asked if I wanted more, as he was dialin’ up his buddy at the old pet store
I said "Not today . . . I lost my appetite, there’s two cats in my belly and they want to fight"
I was suckin’ on a Rolaid and a Tums or two, when I swear I heard it mew, boys
And that is when I knew . . .

There’s a Cat in the Kettle at the Peking Moon, I think I gotta stop eatin’ there at noon
They say that it’s beef or fish or pork, but it’s purrin’ there on my fork
There’s a hair-ball on my fork.


Cat's in the Cradle, by Harry Chapin
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