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When we done saw her as a kitten there weren’t no way to resist
She was the cutest of the litter; my wife and I had always wished
For a daughter of our own, but that ain’t what God had planned,
So we got this little kitty here to be the girl we never had.

She was so, so small, and she didn’t have much fur,
So Baldy was the name we picked for her.

Baldy, The greatest cat I’ve ever known
Baldy, She purrs when I get home
And I pray she won’t get hit by a car or stuck up in a tree.
She’s the best darn cat I’ve ever known, Baldy

As she got a little older she grew a nice fur coat to wear.
She even won the first place cat-coat ribbon at the county fair.
So her name didn’t seem to fit her like it did when she was born,
But then we took her down to Kitty Cuts™ when the weather got too warm.

And the barber must have been blind because he chopped off all her fur,
And at least until her hair grew back I remembered why we first named her:

Baldy, The greatest cat I’ve ever known
Baldy, She purrs when I get home
And I pray she won’t get hit by a car, a truck, or an S.U.V,
She’s the best darn cat I’ve ever known, Baldy

Well, I put on my old cowboy boots and I took her to the vet.
She was feeling kind of down and out; it’s a day I won’t forget.
Well they said that she had cancer; she needed chemotherapy,
And after radiation treatment she looks a lot like me

Baldy, The greatest cat I’ve ever known
Baldy, She purrs when I get home
And I tip my cowboy hat to that old cat for always being there for me.
She’s the best darn cat I’ve ever seen
This one goes out to everyone in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines
She’s the best darn cat I’ve ever known
Baldy
God Bless the U.S.A.