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Song to a Swinging Cat

from Jane Bom​-​Bane's Songbook by Jane Bom-Bane

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For guitarist John Shipley who formed the Swinging Cats, a band I sang with in Coventry in the late 70’s. We wrote a song together called Night on the Tiles; the parts John wrote he recorded later with the Specials. These are the ones I wrote cobbled into a different song, featuring Nick Pynn on guitar and banjo, and Gill Scheuer on the feline oboe.

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Oh my jack pot, oh my hot cat
How’d you like to walk the night?
Scale the rooftops reach the skylife
Steal the midnight moonlight
Don’t misunderstand my smiles
Get set for a night on the tiles

Take some time off, time your mask off
Lay your stiff tuxedo down
Don your soft shoes, doff your top hat
Prowl with me above the town
No cost – no need to count the miles
Time’s lost on a night on the tiles

Oh the ceiling’s too low and the walls are too near
There’s not enough room to swing a cat in here
Whisk us off to some other cool place
Cats like us need space. Miouw – let me out…

So my jack pot, so my hot cat
How’d you like the air up here?
Let’s recline and taste the moonshine
Breathe the night-time atmosphere
Let’s stop and linger here a while
Let’s drink to a night on the tiles!

Oh the ceiling’s too low etc

credits

from Jane Bom​-​Bane's Songbook, released May 26, 2022
Gill Scheur- oboe
NP- telecaster, oud, banjo
Pic: Leigh Jostins Aka 2 Tone Tess with sister J de la Swing

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Jane Bom-Bane Rogers, Arkansas

JB-B performs original songs & poems to the accompaniment of harmonium. She's played around & outside the country & with Linda Thompson, David Thomas, John Bradbury, Rich Hall & David Cunningham, appeared solo on Ch 4, BBC 2, STV, Russian State TV, R 1,2,3,4 & 5Live, R Scotland & written many musicals performed with Eliza Skelton, Daisy Jordan, Emma Kilbey, Kate Daisy Grant etc at Bom-Bane's cafe. ... more

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