Stray Cat Blues Lyrics

Stray Cat Blues lyrics

I hear the click-clack of your feet on the stairs

I know you're no scare-eyed honey

There'll be a feast if you just come upstairs

But it's no hanging matter

It's no capital crime



I can see that you're fifteen years old

No I don't want your I.D.

I can see that you're so far from home

But it's no hanging matter

It's no capital crime



Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat

Oh yeah, don'tcha scratch like that

Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat

Bet your mama don't know you scream like that

I bet your mother don't know you can spit like that



You look so weird and you're so far from home

But you don't really miss your mother

You don't look so scared, I'm no mad-brained bear

But it's no hanging matter

It's no capital crime, oh yeah



I bet your mama don't know that you scratch like that

I bet she don't know you can bite like that



You say, you got a friend, that she's wilder than you

Why don't you bring her upstairs

If she's so wild then she can join in too

It's no hanging matter

It's no capital crime



Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat

Oh yeah, don'tcha scratch like that

Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat

I bet you mama don't know you can bite like that

I'll bet she never saw you scratch my back