{fade to Paris rooftops}
Duchess: Thomas, Madame will be so worried. Are you sure we can't get home
tonight?
Marie: Mama, I'm tired.
Berlioz: Me too, and my feet hurt.
O'Malley: Look baby, it's late, and the kids are bushed.
Toulouse: I'll bet we walked a hundred miles.
Berlioz: I'll bet it's more than a thousand.
Duchess: Now, now, darlings. Cheer up. Mister O'Malley knows a place where we
can stay tonight.
Toulouse: How much farther is it, mister O'Malley?
O'Malley chuckles: Keep your whiskers up, tiger. It's just beyond the next
chimney pot. Well, there it is. My own penthouse pad.
It's not exactly the Ritz, but it's peaceful and quiet.
[Trumpet blows]
Oh! Oh, no. Sounds like Scat Cat and his gang have dropped by.
Duchess: Oh. Friends of yours?
O'Malley: Uh-huh. Yeah. They're old buddies and the're real swingers.
Duchess: Swingers? What is a swinger?
O'Malley: You know. Uh, not exactly your type, Duchess. Maybe we'd better
find another place, huh?
Duchess: Oh no, no, no, I would like to see yor pad, and meet your Scat Cat.
O'Malley: Well, okay.
[They look down from a roof window]
O'Malley: Hey, Scat Cat! Blow some of that sweet stuff my way!
Scat Cat laughs: Well, looky here! Big man O'Malley is back in his alley!
Swing on down here, daddy.
O'Malley: Lay some skin on me, Scat Cat, yeah!
Italian Cat: Buona sera, paesano!
English Cat: Welcome home, O'Malley!
O'Malley: Duchess, this is the greatest cat of 'em all.
Duchess: Oh, I'm delighted to meet you, monsieur Scat Cat.
Scat Cat kisses her paw: Likewise, Duchess. You're too much.
Duchess: Oh, ho, ho. You are charming! And your music it so-- so different.
But so exiting.
Berlioz: It isn't Beethoven, mama, but it sure bounces.
Scat Cat chuckles: Say! This kitten cat knows where it's at!
Marie: Knows where what's at?
Scat Cat: Well, little lady, let me elucidate here.
Scat Cat: Everybody wants to be a cat
Because a cat's the only cat
Who knows where it's at
O'Malley: Tell me!
Everybody's pickin' up on that feline beat
'Cause everything else is obsolete
Scat Cat: Strictly high-button shoes.
O'Malley: A square with a horn
Makes you wish you weren't born
Scat Cat: Everytime he plays.
O'Malley: But with a square in the act
You can set music back
Scat Cat: To the caveman days
[scats]
O'Malley: I've heard some corny birds who tried to sing
Scat Cat: Still the cat's the only cat
Who knows how to swing
Russian Cat: Who wants to dig a long-haired gig
And stuff like that
O'Malley and Scat Cat: When everybody wants to be a cat
A square with a horn
Makes you wish you weren't born
Every time he plays
O'Malley: Oh, a-rinky-tinky-dinky
O'Malley and Scat Cat: With a square in the act
You can set music back
To the caveman days
Marie: Oh, a-rinky-dinky-tinky
O'Malley: Yes,
O'Malley and Marie: Everybody wants to be a cat
Because a cat's the only cat
Who knows where it's at
When playin' jazz he always has
A welcome mat
O'Malley, Marie, Scat Cat: 'Cause everybody digs a swingin' cat
Chinese Cat: Oh boy, fellas! Let's rock the joint!
Russian Cat: Ha-ha! Groove it, cat!
[music and dance]
Chinese Cat: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Egg Foo Young
Fortune cookie always wrong
That's a hot one!
O'Malley: How 'bout you and me, Duchess?
Duchess: Yes. Let's swing it, Thomas.
Toulouse: Groovy, mama, groovy!
Scat Cat (giving trumpet to Berlioz): Blow it, small fry. Blow it.
Chinese Cat: Boy, he blew it
Italian Cat: But he was a-close.
[more music and dance, untill Duchess plays a harp]
Scat Cat: Mmm.
O'Malley: Beautiful
Duchess: If you want to turn me on
Play your horn, don't spare the tone
And blow a little soul into the tune
O'Malley: Let's take to another key
Scat Cat: Modulate and wait for me
I'll take a few ad-libs and pretty soon
The other cats will all commence
Congregatin' on the fence
Beneath the alley's only light
Duchess: Where every note is out of sight
[Scat cat returns to jazz]
All gang: Everybody, everybody,
Everybody wants to be a cat!
Scat Cat: Hallelujah!
All gang: Everybody, Everybody,
Everybody wants to be a cat!
I'm tellin' you!
Everybody, Everybody,
Everybody wants to be a cat!
Yeah!
Everybody, Everybody,
Everybody wants to be a cat!
Mmm!
Everybody, Everybody,
Everybody wants to be a cat!
Hallelujah!
Everybody, Everybody,
Everybody wants to be a cat!