Kool Kat Kitty
Here’s a little ditty ‘bout my Kool Kat Kitty
Left the backwoods for the big cat city
Nothin’ but a bag and a guitar in hand
Runnin’ off wild for the promise land
Wonder what prospects will lay ahead
Never listenin’ to what your momma said
Jammin’ in the street for some unknown beat
Tryin’ to stay away from the big city heat
Playin’ the blues barely keeps you alive
Tryin’ to make a livin’ off your Kool Kat Jive
Doin’ what you can to make a hit
Tryin’ to avoid all that honky-sh*t
This here’s a song about the Kool Kat Kitty
Wish I’d come along
Rippin’ up the streets in the big damn city
Damned if I didn’t hear my favorite song on the rad-did-e-o-o
Here’s a little ditty ‘bout my Kool Kat Kitty
Left the backwoods for the big cat city
Nothin’ but a bag and a guitar in hand
Runnin’ off wild for the promise land
Wonder what prospects will lay ahead
Never listenin’ to what your momma said
Jammin’ in the street for some unknown beat
Tryin’ to stay away from the big city heat
Playin’ the blues barely keeps you alive
Tryin’ to make a livin’ off your Kool Kat Jive
Doin’ what you can to make a hit
Tryin’ to avoid all that honky-shit
The fact that you made it really blows my mind
Copyright © 1974 Dave-Michael Valentine All Rights Reserved
Kool Kat Kitty was the first original Dave-Michael Valentine song, written in 1974 while playing evenings in pub-bands, and I was also in a band with classmates called Blue Flax, in Aberdeen, Washington.
Note this first song has some cuss-words included, due to Ken Aronson, a classmate, who inadvertently branded me as “Teen Angel,” which was mildly offensive to me. It did adequately label my squeaky-clean image, but I wanted to appear to be a little more tough-guy, so I purposely, albeit awkwardly, included a couple of flavorful words in this otherwise too terribly cute song.
BTW: It didn’t work.
Many years later, Aaron Fairbairn would select Kool Kat Kitty and two other Dave-Michael Valentine songs, Today, and Gimme Some Lovin’ to cover in his local band, The Abrocats.