Am			       D    

The butterfly sailed on the breeze

Fmaj7   	              E

Past a field of barbed wire trees

Am			       D

Where golden dragons chased around

Fmaj7                     E

Pampered poppies on the ground

C                            Am   Fmaj7  

Two silver trout sat way on high

C              G         Am    Fmaj

And watched a royal samurai 

C                             Am Fmaj7

Plant two black orchids in a box

 C	      G             Am   Fmaj7

And strap it to a laughing fox



Am			      D

A minstrel bought a crooked spoon

Am		        D

He gave it to a blue baboon

Am			      D

Who filled it full of virgin snow

     Fmaj7      G           Am

And watched it in the afterglow 





Fat toad stood in his ballet shoes

Teaching sixteen kangaroos

How to skip across a lake

They found it hard to stay awake

A pharaoh played a merry tune

And watched nine cats dance on the moon

I didn't know what all this meant

I didn't know why I'd been sent. 



The Insignificance version of Nine Cats has the following additional verse at the end: 



I threw 5 clocks down on my bed

The chimes danced out on golden threads

And turned to footprints on my wall

Sequined tears began to fall