Cool For Cats

Album: Cool For Cats (1979)
Charted: 2
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  • The Indians send signals from the rocks above the pass
    The cowboys take position in the bushes and the grass
    The squaw is with the corporal, she is tied against the tree
    She doesn't mind the language, it's the beating she don't need
    She lets loose all the horses when the corporal is asleep
    And he wakes to find the fire's dead and arrows in his hats
    And Davy Crockett rides around and says it's cool for cats
    It's cool for cats (cool for cats)

    The Sweeney's doing ninety 'cause they've got the word to go
    They get a gang of villains in a shed up at Heathrow
    They're counting out the fivers when the handcuffs lock again
    In and out of Wandsworth with the numbers on their names
    It's funny how their missus always look so bleeding same
    And meanwhile at the station there's a couple of likely lads
    Who swear like, "How's your father?" and they're very cool for cats
    They're cool for cats (cool for cats)

    To change the mood a little I've been posing down the pub
    On seeing my reflection, I'm looking slightly rough
    I fancy this, I fancy that, I wanna be so flash
    I give a little muscle and I spend a little cash
    But all I get is bitter and a nasty little rash
    And by the time I'm sober I've forgotten what I've had
    And everybody tells me that it's cool to be a cat
    Cool for cats (cool for cats)

    Shape up at the disco and I think I've got a pull
    I ask her lots of questions and she hangs on to the wall
    I kiss her for the first time and then I take her home
    I'm invited in for coffee and I give the dog a bone
    She likes to go to discos but she's never on her own
    I said I'll see you later and give her some old chat
    But it's not like that on the TV when it's cool for cats
    It's cool for cats (cool for cats) Writer/s: Christopher Henry Difford, Glenn Martin Tilbrook
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

  • Cheryl Dawn Stevens from SaltfordBrilliant song
  • Sbw from London, United KingdomWandsworth - refers to the prison of the same name

    Give the dog a bone - refers to having sex with an unattractive woman
  • Brad from Sydney, AustraliaI remember being on holiday on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia as a 15 year old kid, and was amazed that a British lad I met knew all the lyrics & sang it really well!
    Now, almost 30 years later, I still love it and often sing along to it while watching the original clip on DVD. I wonder where that British lad is now?
    Brad Parry, Culburra Beach, Australia.
  • Zabadak from London, EnglandThis record was famously released on pink vinyl in the UK. Little known, some copies were pressed on red vinyl and they are the more valuable copies.
  • Paul from Leeds, EnglandThe "Sweeney" referred to in the song was the name of a British TV Cop show from the 70's but it was also the nickname of Scotland Yard's Flying Squad, it was cockney rhyming slang: "Sweeney Todd = Flying Squad"
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