Only Cats Have Nine Lives
A collaboration w/Richard Lamoureux
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 to soon,
baby born she didn't know what to do
Little boy blue he cried a sad tune
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 a 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 life's 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
Many thanks to Richard Lamoureux
for this enriching collaborative endeavor.
Credit goes to Harry Chapin's song, "Cat's in the Cradle."
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2017
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