They Call Her The Cat

[BiteUrLip]

Music: Elton John

Lyrics: Bernie Taupin

piano, vocals: Elton John

electric guitar, DOBRO, baritone guitar: Davey Johnstone

drums: Nigel Olsson

hammond organ, rhodes, programming: Guy Babylon

bass: Bob Birch

percussion: John Mahon

choir: L'Tanya Shields, Alecia Terry, M. Dennis Sims, Rosalind McNight, Mark Ford, Terrence Davis, Todd Honeycutt, Adam McNight

trombone, horn arrangement: Jimmy Pankow

trumpet: Lee Loughnane

tenor saxophone: Walter Parazaider

baritone saxophone: Larry Klimas

She threw back that shiny hair

Like the mane on a Delta Queen

Gonna spend my last dime on a telephone call

'Cause she's the wildest thing I've ever seen

She was just plain 'mister' once

Got herself fixed up real good

Just a little boy lost in the land of the free

A wiggle and a walk away from womanhood


chorus:


Now they call her the cat

And that's a stone fact

They took a little of this

She got a little of that

Now Billy got a kitty, he got something to scratch

So they call her, yeah they call her the cat


She just does that double act

She got Babs and Joan down pat

She got hips like Mick, she's a Rolling Stone

Never seen a woman shake like that

She was just plain 'mister' once

Got herself fixed up real good

Just a little boy lost in the land of the free

A wiggle and a walk away from womanhood


(repeat chorus)


She's so fine that the water line

Don't separate hot and cold

She got stitched up bitchy by an old M.D.

Now she's headed out to Hollywood or so I'm told


(repeat chorus)


And that's a stone fact

They took a little of this

She got a little of that

Now Billy got a kitty, he got something to scratch

So they call her, yeah they call her the cat

[BiteUrLip]

For many, this is one of the throwaway songs from PTR, but for me it's not... I think it's a really good acoustic rocker (did I just invent this term?), that gets even better with distorted guitars live.

4½ stars.

[nix]

3
ok, but nothing special

[rocketman]

4 stars...Probably more like 3.75, but I'll move it up a notch to 4, mainly because it at least tries to rock, which is more than can be said for any other songs on the album. The live performance on the accompanying DVD that was issued with the updated PTR album package was considerably better, and when I witnessed the song performed live during the PTR Tour, it was outstanding.

[dougs]

rocketman:

Agreed.  Word for word.  A decent album track that was better live than on record.

Doug

[newloneranger]

I like the live rocking version better too. Still the studio version is one of my favorites on this album.

4 1/2 stars