My Favourite Song

Only Cats Have Nine Lives Her child arrived in a secret way Hiding him nine months a heavy chore No daddy just some soldier home from war Poor little girl, woke up sad every day She found a cat in the cradle with a silver spoon and a ladle Her baby drowned in the tub sometimes love can be fatal Heavy sighs under the moon Passion made a girl a mommy too soon baby born she didn't know what to do Little boy blue he cried a sad tune No one seen the sad beneath her pretend Her secret kept from family and friend She saw no ending to sadness and pain wanting to be a carefree girl again She found a cat in the cradle with a silver spoon and a ladle Her baby drowned in the tub sometimes love can be fatal The baby cried all day and every night Even soft blankets can be wrapped too tight She placed him in a bath filled with her tears Leaving him there she turned off the light From Vietnam her soldier boy came home The first thing he did was reach for the phone There was no answer she'd been taken away That really was a most peculiar day He found a cat in the cradle With a silver spoon and a ladle Their baby drowned in the tub Sometimes love can be fatal He would have been two just the other day But life was tragically taken away He should have been protected from lifes harms just a happy child in his mother's arms Lullaby nightmare a young mommy so blue Soldier cries for the child he never knew His baby arrived in a secret way Sadly there was nothing that he could do Credit goes to Harry Chapin's song "Cat's in the Cradle" and my friend Freddie Robinson Jr. who joined me in this endeavour.