The Indians send signals from the rocks above the pass
The cowboys take position in the bushes and the grass
The squaw is with the corporal, she is tied against the tree
She doesn’t mind the language, it’s the beating she don’t need
She lets loose all the horses when the corporal is asleep
And he wakes to find the fire’s dead and arrows in his hats
And Davy Crockett rides around and says it’s cool for cats
It’s cool for cats
Cool for cats
The Sweeney’s doing ninety 'cause they’ve got the word to go They get a gang of villains in a shed up at Heathrow
They’re counting out the fivers when the handcuffs lock again
In and out of Wandsworth with the numbers on their names
It’s funny how their missus' always look so bleeding same
And meanwhile at the station there’s a couple of likely lads
Who swear like, «How's your father?» and they’re very cool for cats,
they’re cool for cats
Cool for cats
To change the mood a little I’ve been posing down the pub
On seeing my reflection, I’m looking slightly rough
I fancy this, I fancy that, I wanna be so flash
I give a little muscle and I spend a little cash
But all I get is bitter and a nasty little rash
And by the time I’m sober I’ve forgotten what I’ve had
And everybody tells me that it’s cool to be a cat, cool for cats
Cool for cats
Shape up at the disco and I think I’ve got a pull
I ask her lots of questions and she hangs on to the wall
I kiss her for the first time and then I take her home
I’m invited in for coffee and I give the dog a bone
She likes to go to discos but she’s never on her own
I said I’ll see you later and give her some old chat
But it’s not like that on the TV when it’s cool for cats, it’s cool for
ca-a-a-ats
Cool for cats
I went from being a long haired teen idolizing bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd and Blue Oyster Cult to cutting all that hair off and listening to The Clash, Siouxsie, Echo, etc. within the space of about 3 months and this was one of the songs (having heard it on college radio) that did it for me. Good times!
you Brits produced far better music during this era than the *cough cough....YanksWhy do "Tempted" and "Black Coffee in Bed" get more airplay than this and "Pulling Mussels?"
brilliant stuff,
my only real prominent memory of this brilliant song was as a 14/15 year old nutter, joyriding round manchester in a stolen car, when i put the cassette on, and this song came blaring out and i was banging me head like waynes world flying round corners around didsbury, bunage somewhere hehehe
aah such a wonderful misspent youth and education back then hehehe........ fabulous mad times back then, hehehe
My favorite song on rock band 2Those girls are just fabulous, stuck in my brain since I first saw the video all those decades ago.Ths song/video is pure East London