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Elvis Costello performs Pads, Paws and Claws> youtu.be/UYRoifECtMo?si=dcsYUY…

Pads, Paws and Claws Lyrics

She's a feline tormentor, not any vaudeville wife
But with a drunk-town lament he leads her a miserable life
But when he's full of that beer-champagne
She pads, paws, pads, paws and claws

And if he should wake up in some terrible dive
And he don't know if he's so-so
But he's so surprised he's alive
"Come on little honey, let me under your hive"
She pads, paws, pads, paws and claws

She pads, pads around the bedroom, practicing ways to flirt
He paws, pours another drink and anything in a skirt
Anything wearing a necklace
He thinks of claws scratching his back he's
Going out there he's not coming back

She's got spider-leg fingers, sharpened whenever he strays
And she carries a bird-purse, with all of her womanly ways
'Til he's drinking hairspray, she knows that he never would dare
She could be in pictures if she wasn't all covered in fur
He's coming home now and here's the surprise
You wouldn't believe the lies that he tries
She cut him down to her favourite size
She pads, paws, pads, paws and claws

She pads, paws, pads, paws and claws

Songwriters: Paul Mccartney, Declan MacManus.

“Pads, Paws and Claws” from the Album "Spike", 1989

Taking its title from a vintage children’s book about large cats that Costello purchased in an antique store, “Pads Paws and Claws” was little more than a blues riff with amusing lyrics when he brought it to McCartney to workshop. “Mr. McCartney said, ‘Well that’s all very well, ‘Pads Paws Claws,’ that’s a catchy sort of hook, but it doesn’t really explain anywhere what it means by that. It’s just cute sounding,” Costello remembered a 1989 BBC documentary. To remedy the matter, McCartney encouraged him to compose a bridge that not only explained the title, but also injected some variation into the tune before monotony set in.

The song surfaced as an album cut on Spike. “It suited me more,” Costello says in the Flowers in the Dirt box set notes. “In the end, Paul didn’t end up recording it, even though he sounded really good singing it.”

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Elvis Costello performs Pads, Paws and Claws> youtu.be/UYRoifECtMo?si=dcsYUY…

Pads, Paws and Claws Lyrics

She's a feline tormentor, not any vaudeville wife
But with a drunk-town lament he leads her a miserable life
But when he's full of that beer-champagne
She pads, paws, pads, paws and claws

And if he should wake up in some terrible dive
And he don't know if he's so-so
But he's so surprised he's alive
"Come on little honey, let me under your hive"
She pads, paws, pads, paws and claws

She pads, pads around the bedroom, practicing ways to flirt
He paws, pours another drink and anything in a skirt
Anything wearing a necklace
He thinks of claws scratching his back he's
Going out there he's not coming back

She's got spider-leg fingers, sharpened whenever he strays
And she carries a bird-purse, with all of her womanly ways
'Til he's drinking hairspray, she knows that he never would dare
She could be in pictures if she wasn't all covered in fur
He's coming home now and here's the surprise
You wouldn't believe the lies that he tries
She cut him down to her favourite size
She pads, paws, pads, paws and claws

She pads, paws, pads, paws and claws

Songwriters: Paul Mccartney, Declan MacManus.

“Pads, Paws and Claws” from the Album "Spike", 1989

Taking its title from a vintage children’s book about large cats that Costello purchased in an antique store, “Pads Paws and Claws” was little more than a blues riff with amusing lyrics when he brought it to McCartney to workshop. “Mr. McCartney said, ‘Well that’s all very well, ‘Pads Paws Claws,’ that’s a catchy sort of hook, but it doesn’t really explain anywhere what it means by that. It’s just cute sounding,” Costello remembered a 1989 BBC documentary. To remedy the matter, McCartney encouraged him to compose a bridge that not only explained the title, but also injected some variation into the tune before monotony set in.

The song surfaced as an album cut on Spike. “It suited me more,” Costello says in the Flowers in the Dirt box set notes. “In the end, Paul didn’t end up recording it, even though he sounded really good singing it.”