A comic strip song from 1928.
Words by Alfred Bryan.
Music by Max Kortlander and Pete Wendling.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- There’s a cat, a fuzzy creature
In the movies he’s a feature
He’s some Cat
All the kiddies and the mammas
Say that he’s the “cat’s pajamas”
He’s all that
When on the screen he appears
They shout these words in his ears
Doggone it
Chorus
Felix, Felix, Felix the Cat
Welcome, welcome home to our flat
You fascinate me with your funny meow
I’ll feed you catnip and sweet milk from the cow
Felix, Felix, in our backyard
You can hang up your hat
Make your pillow underneath a pussy willow
Felix, Felix the cat
- I’ve seen cats from Maine to China
But I’ve never seen one finer
He’s a bear
All the cats in old Kilkenny
Kitty, Katie, Jane and Jenny
Can’t compare
I’ll let him sleep on my rug
I’ll let him drink from my mug
Doggone it
(extra choruses are in the sheet music)
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: