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What would happen if the cat ate the computer mouse? Completing homework would certainly be much more complicated! Written with an easy swing feel, the verses “let the cat out of the bag” as the story unfolds, and the repeated chorus has spots for dramatic pauses or even a few “solo meows”. The melody occasionally dips to the outer edges of the vocal range but generally sits in the comfortable middle notes between Bb3 – D5. This range is appropriate and accessible for young voices.
Students in grades 2-4 enjoy singing Computer Cat, and it can be used as a listening activity with younger students (Pre-K to grade 2). Use this song with small group classes or solo singers ages 12 and under.

Computer Cat is included as a 2-verse song in the Royal Conservatory of Music Series, 2019 Edition: Repertoire 3, List B: 20th- and 21st- Century Repertoire.

Listen to the Donna & Andy performance track:

Listen to melody + accompaniment – sample:

Download Includes:

  • Vocal score
  • Lead sheet
  • Director/piano score
  • Lyrics
  • Accompaniment – with melody guide
  • Accompaniment – piano
  • Donna & Andy band – instrumental track
  • Donna & Andy – performance track
  • 10 Cross-curricular Activities
  • Colouring page

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Computer Cat

by Donna Rhodenizer

Audio & Lyrics

Follow along with the lyrics as you listen to the accompaniment with melody guide for Computer Cat.

Computer Cat - song composed by Donna Rhodenizer - Lyrics - SAMPLE

Part of a Song Collection

The song Computer Cat  is one of 12 songs from the award-winning song collection "Computer Cat". Donna Rhodenizer has written these songs in a variety of styles and skill levels for singers from ages 5-12+.

Learn more about this fun collection for elementary-aged kids, choirs and solo vocal students. The 93-page book provides the vocal score, full score and separate lyrics pages for 12 songs. Enjoy! 

Please note: audio tracks for the e-book version are sold separately. Print copies of the book include CD (24 tracks)

Computer Cat - Songbook

Stream and purchase Audio tracks

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Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Amazon, Pandora, Deezer.


The Computer Cat  CD (Donna & Andy performance and instrumental) tracks (24) are available for download or physical CD on this website.

Teacher Tips

Discuss the Vocabulary used in this song

  • Do the students ever use a mouse with their computer?
  • Have they ever seen a mouse that is attached to the computer with a cable?
  • What is the “pad” that is mentioned in bar 10?
  • What is computer RAM?

Once the vocabulary has been explored, review the story as it is written in the lyrics. This should help students understand the story they are singing!

Expressive singing

  • Use expressive singing to tell this humorous story.
  • What emotions will you try to convey? Humour, exasperation, frustration…?
  • Use dynamics, paying particular attention to lyrics that repeat. Singing the repeated words with dynamic changes creates interest and momentum for the phrase. Decide if you will add a crescendo or a decrescendo for the repeated words.

Solo opportunity

If singing with a group of students, select one or two students to add a few solo meows at strategic spots in the song.

Add simple movement

Adding a few simple gestures can help emphasize the lyrics.

Some examples include:

   with my hand on the mouse – move your hand as if moving a computer mouse

   push the cat around on the desk – move your hand as if pushing a cat!

Explore cross-curricular activities and connect with other subject areas.


Colouring Page - Download

Download (pdf), print and have fun colouring this page while you listen to the song Computer Cat. 

Computer Cat - song composed by Donna Rhodenizer - colouring page - sample

Composer's Notes

Computer Cat is one of my early songs. It was written in the mid 1990s as a result of a question posed by my six-year-old son, Daniel. He had seen me using the computer (or maybe he was using one himself at that point) and he said, “Mom, what would happen if the cat ate the mouse for the computer?” This was an interesting thought and evoked amusing images and it was a great foundation for a fun song. Cats are not known to be particularly cooperative at the best of times. I envisioned the necessity of chasing and catching the cat when it was time to do computer work and then the trouble of convincing it to agree to being pushed around on the desk. The issues of static electricity and being ticklish would certainly create some tension!

It is amazing to me that almost 30 years after writing this song, I can look back and see how much technology has changed since the song was originally written. Many of the computer innovations of the 1990s have been replaced and replaced again in the ensuing years. What we thought was leading-edge technology (which it was at the time) now looks very antiquated. Computer Cat still has appeal as a humorous song, although it may require a bit of historical context for young singers who wonder what a mouse and pad have to do with using a computer!

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License

Single User License, Classroom / Studio License, Treble Choir License

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Bb3 – D5

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Donna Rhodenizer

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