Frank Hayes - Never Set the Cat on Fire [HQ]

Don't Ask track 21. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
Download the album here: archive.org/de...
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Lyrics:
Never set the cat on fire; you only will annoy it.
The heat will make the beast perspire; she surely won't enjoy it.
Likewise do not ignite the dog, the snake, the gerbil, or the frog;
No, never set the cat on fire.
(Chorus)
And mind your manners, as circumstances may require,
And never set the cat on fire.
Don't open up the cabin hatch; the air is sure to leave it.
And air is very hard to catch; you never will retrieve it.
And even though your life's a bore, don't open the reactor door;
Don't open up the cabin hatch.
(Chorus)
Don't change the navigator's data; someone's sure to see ya.
You know the captain's view of that: a very bad idea.
He doesn't want his ship to race forever lost in endless space;
Don't change the navigator's data.
(Chorus)
Don't start an interstellar war; it has no helpful uses.
If people ask you “What's it for?”, you'll only make excuses.
If thirty trillion folks get hurt, you'll go to bed with no dessert!
Don't start an interstellar war.
(Chorus x2)

[@tiredtait9660]

My kids 2nd favorate filk song I use as a lullaby

[@gabrielandradeferraz386]

never set the cat on fire is a lesson that will never be outdated

[@jeffwolcott7815]

What's number one?

[@tiredtait9660]

@@jeffwolcott7815 Leslie Fish's Black Powder and Alcohol

[@vehicularmanslaughter6370]

hfddhf my mother used to sing me to sleep when i was young with this

[@BSOE3058]

Yeah, more of Frank :D

[@rebelrider3361]

Thanks for uploading these songs. Are you going to upload more of RocketMan's songs? I saw some new ones on the site.

[@SongsfromtheStars]

Yes, I had to take a long break for some things, but I'll be back to uploading sometime soon.

[@jeffwolcott7815]

Well, I needed to cut back on desserts anyways.

[@barragethree5047]

Hey, SftS, I might put together a Discord for filk fans and fringeheads. I want to know if you'd join the movement. I want this word to spread, bring us Gen Zs and others together and bring about a new era of filk. Do what Ecklar, Fish, Elms, Sutton did back in those days. Would you help revive this movement?

[@SongsfromtheStars]

If you make it, I'll do my best to help.

[@barragethree5047]

@@SongsfromtheStars
discord.gg/WEBhHgTMts

[@SongsfromtheStars]

@@barragethree5047 FYI, there is also an older and more active filk Discord: discord.gg/S7yVxa4NEQ

[@loadeddice4696]

NEDM

[@TheKhopesh]

Hey, SotF.
If you're open to suggestions, it's be AMAZING to get a remastered version of Jordin Kare's "Fire in the Sky" album from 1991!
You can find the only copy I know of here: /watch?v=TyqhMxMBJk4
I've already separated the songs by timestamps in a post I made in the comments some months back, as well as transcribed lyrics to a couple of the songs I enjoyed that I couldn't find the lyrics to anywhere else.

[@sodorflubbs5000]

As I rp MaineCoon cat I completely agree. Don’t set the cat on fire.