Breakfast Songs

I am not a monster, so of course I sing to my cats. (I assume this is a universal thing? Making up and singing songs to your pets?) This summer their breakfast song went viral at my son’s summer sleep-away camp. He shared the song with the other campers and counselors, and apparently it got sung pretty much every day before breakfast. I heard from other parents afterwards that they heard their kids singing it in the mornings at home too. This came as a surprise to me, since I didn’t expect the song to ever be heard outside of our household. The song is also useful for photos. It is hard getting a cat to look at you for a photo. But all I have to do is sing the first few lines of the Breakfast Song, and I have cat eyes piercing right into my soul.

New songs for the cats can’t be forced. They kind of have to organically grow. Yesterday I came up with a SECOND breakfast song. This second one is sung to the tune of a sea shanty, and it is pretty fun to bellow it out in the morning. The cats, being little furry geniuses, seem to understand that this song too means they are about to get fed. I’ll have to try it on them at some point to see if it also helps for photos.

The Breakfast Song

Oh ho, its breakfast time! Oh yes its breakfast time!

Its time to sing a rhyme, because its breakfast time.

Its time to get in line, because its breakfast time.

Its time to get in line, because its breakfast time.

Its time to merp and peep, because you get to eat.

Oh ho, its breakfast time! Oh yes its breakfast time!

Its time to meow a lot, like you’re in Camelot.

Oh ho, it breakfast time! Oh yes its breakfast time!

The Second Breakfast Song, Chorus Only (main verse still in development)

Oh ho, the kitties come! To get their breakfast, to eat their yums.

Oh ho, the kitties come! To eat their breakfast down.