Name: Tomcat
Duration: P00H04M40S
Description: A song Colm wrote in a pseudo Johnny Cash style. This is the only song Colm played lead guitar on as Liam broke his hand in work a few days before recording this song. Luther Fairbairn, an old blues musician, played harmonica and producer Dan Ponich added steel guitar. This is Colm's favourite song on the album.

Tomcat

from Eclectic Taste by Bute Street

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A song Colm wrote in a pseudo Johnny Cash style. This is the only song Colm played lead guitar on as Liam broke his hand in work a few days before recording this song. Luther Fairbairn, an old blues musician, played harmonica and producer Dan Ponich added steel guitar. This is Colm's favourite song on the album.

lyrics

They call me the Tomcat through these streets I roam
They call me the Tomcat, I don't have a home
I've got these scars upon my face from battles of old
Aint a cat alive can take my place
Without a fight in the cold

I know I'm a loner
But this town is a jungle baby
And the owners will stone ya
Just for doing your hustle and maybe

I am too old to be trained
'Cause I have spent my whole life in the rain
Ever since I was a kitten
I've been drawn to the darker shades of life

Sometimes I go hungry, a tomcat's gotta eat
Sometimes I smell funky but I walk to my own beat
I like the street felines who don't wear a collar
For all kinds I pine, every shape and every colour
A tomcat's got needs, a tomcat needs pleasure
In between feeds, in rare moments of leisure

And I am too old to be trained
'cause I have spent my whole life in the rain
Every since I was kitten
I've been drawn to the darker shades of life

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from Eclectic Taste, released January 1, 2022
Words and music by Colm Donnelly

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Bute Street Vancouver, British Columbia

Founded in 2018 by Irish songwriters Colm Donnelly and Liam Mulholland in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The pair finished their debut album- Eclectic Taste in the summer of 2021 with Jory Fernstrom on bass and Craig Hahessy on drums but both moved on for family reasons. ... more

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