My Cat Accountant
Cheryl told a funny story about how when you are young and in your twenties, there are lots of things to write about. Just about anything that makes you upset is fodder for a new song. However, when you get older, much of the same things that sound fine when written by a twenty-something starts to sound whinny as the songwriter gets older.
The problem with this is that the older you get, the less you have to write about. So, since angst isn't appropriate anymore, Cheryl had to look elsewhere for inspiration. Well, there are lots of cats in her house, so it appears that the main inspiration at this stage are the cats. Penrod, in particular. He got a song about his 15th birthday, and now he got a song about being an accountant.
Apparently, the running joke in Cheryl's house is how Penrod is an accountant and keeps billing them for whatever they use. This song is a fantasy about how Penrod spends his day.
Lyrics
- My Cat Accountant
- Words And Music By
- Cheryl Wheeler
- My cat accountant taps his furry head
- His visor's green and all my numbers are red
- His little lamp is burning all the time
- and what is his used to be mine
- His calculating is so round about
- Einstein and Hawking couldn't figure it out
- Bill Gates and Midas wouldn't make a dime
- with my CPA feline
- If you saw him on the street you'd never guess
- What those pencils in his pocket sleeve are for
- He may look soft and sweet but now hear this
- He's a ruthless little cat entrepreneur
- Bottom line and business to the core
- He zips through my room in his racing car
- He dips his beetles into caviar
- He has his snowboards jetted in from France
- And he busts a sag in Baggy black leather pants
- If you're staying in a really nice hotel
- And a white cat takes the table next to you
- You will find his dining charges on your bill
- With his room and tax and transportation too
- And there will not be a thing that you can do
- He is a tiger at the driving range
- He keeps a locker at the stock exchange
- Even his cell phone has a diamond ring
- and all day long I hear it sing
- Ca-ching ca-ching
- Ca-ching ca-ching
- Ca-ching ca-ching ca-ching
- (P) November 30, 2002
- Penrod And Higgins Music / Amachrist Music
- ACF Music Group
- International Copyright Reserved
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Recordings
The song My Cat Accountant appears on the following album:
- No Previous Record
- by Wheeler, Cheryl
