1.  Old Mister Johnson had troubles of his own

      He had a yellow cat that wouldn’t leave his home

      He tried and he tried to give the cat away

      He gave it to a man who went far, far away

CHORUS: But the cat came back, the very next day

                 The cat came back, they thought he was a goner

                 But the cat came back, he just wouldn’t stay away

2.  So he gave it to a man with a great big box

      He covered it in chains and a thousand locks

      With the cat inside he threw it into the sea

      Then he went back home and he swallowed every key

3.  He put it on a rocket ship bound for Mars

      For seven days and nights it zoomed to the stars

      It crashed against an asteroid in the middle of space

      Pieces floated everywhere, but left no trace

4.  Once a crazy scientist took the yellow cat

      He put him in a time machine with one small rat

      He sent them back ten million years to the dinosaur age

      “We’re here for good!” that old rat said