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When I look back,
boy, I must have been green,
bop pin’ in the coun try,
fish in’ in a stream,
look in’ for an an swer,
try in’ to find a sign.
Un til I saw your cit y lights,
hon ey, I was blind.
They said,
“Get back, hon ky cat.
Bet ter get back to the woods.”
Well, I
quit those days
and my
red neck ways
and a,
hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm,
oh,
the change is gon na do me good.
“You bet ter get back,
hon ky cat.
Liv in’ in the cit y ain’t where it’s at.
It’s like
tryin’ to find gold in a
sil ver mine.
It’s like
tryin’ to drink whis key,
oh,
from a bot tle of wine.”
Well, I read some books and I read some mag a zines
a bout those
high class la dies down in
New Or leans, and all the
folks back home, well, they said I was a fool.
They said,
“Oh,
be liev in’ the Lord
is the gold en rule.”
They said, “Get back,
hon ky cat.
Bet ter get back to the woods.”
But I
quit those days
and my
red neck ways
and,
ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh,
oh,
the change is gon na do me good.
They said, “Get back,
hon ky cat.
Bet ter get back to the woods.”
But I
quit those days
and my
red neck ways
and,
ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh,
oh,
the change is gon na do me good.
They said,
They said,
“Stay at home,
boy, you got ta tend the farm.
Liv in’ in the cit y, boy, is is gon na break your heart.”
But
how can you stay when your
heart says no?
Ah, ah,
how can you stop when your
feet say go?
“You bet ter
Get back, hon ky cat, get back, hon ky cat, get back, (G)ooh.
Get back, hon ky cat, get back, hon ky cat, get back, (G)ooh.
This page shows “Honky Cat” by Elton John in our color-coded kid songbook view — every note is colored by pitch (red C, orange D, yellow E, green F, blue G, purple A, pink B) and the lyrics sit directly under each note, so children can sing along while they play. The song is in the key of G at 100 BPM, a medium-difficulty arrangement — try slowing the tempo down using the BPM control.