Cats in the Cradle

We apologize for the inconvenience...

---

Dave Smith Workshop and Facilitated Jam.

Daddy's Beemer, Echo Courts. Steep Canyon Rangers, Martin Babko. Joyce Manor, Jeff Rosenstock.

Primary Menu

Yonder Mountain String Band. Durham Performing Arts Center. Drive-By Truckers, Lucinda Williams. Tiny Meat Gang Live. From Indian Lakes, Many Rooms.

Mozes and The Firstborn. Ben Kweller, Modern Love Child. Retrieved 26 July Best Pop Solo Performance". Retrieved 11 October Cats in the Cradle". Special Occasion Charts ". Archived from the original on Retrieved May 4, Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on August 24, Retrieved November 23, Retrieved December 3, Retrieved 22 June Rockpalast Live Remember When: Tanner " " Six String Orchestra " " Sniper ". Favorite Country Songs Super Hits. Retrieved from " https: All articles with dead external links Articles with dead external links from October Articles with hAudio microformats Articles needing cleanup from October All pages needing cleanup Cleanup tagged articles with a reason field from October Wikipedia pages needing cleanup from October A Study of Cat's Cradle in Many Lands that has history of the string game as well as instructions for making various patterns and games.

I've had my copy since the early s.

HotLicks I played Cat's Cradle when I was in school, and have played it with my children — we even have a book that came with a loop of string and shows various patterns, like this one — but they have never played it on the playground with their peers. All of these were passed along at the playground level, though, so it's possible that this rural school never had them the way my inner-city school did, or lost them much longer ago than my childhood.

Hot Licks - My kids play it fairly frequently. It's one of the regularly recurring fads at their primary school, along with Clash of Clans, spinning tops, football cards, Subway Surfers, football, and origami.

An expression used as a respond when someone passes the millionth raincheck for a get-together or date. Derives from the Harry Chapin song "Cat's in the Cradle", telling the story of a father who never has time for his son and when the son grows up, he never has time for his father. For further examples, check the following link: Thank you for your interest in this question. Because it has attracted low-quality or spam answers that had to be removed, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on this site the association bonus does not count.

Would you like to answer one of these unanswered questions instead? Home Questions Tags Users Unanswered. GileBrt 1 4 7.

Upcoming Events

The silver spoon is assumed to be the one the dish ran away with. Frank Baum's first children's book, Mother Goose in Prose The man in the moon is a nursery rhyme The line 'The Cat's in the Cradle was, to my mind, a reference to 'The Cats and the Cradle', a Dutch Fairy tale Without knowing the context of how it was used in the tv show, it's hard to know whether they were simply referring to the song, or if they intended meaning from the Fairy Tale the song is I believe referring to.

Scott 1, 6 This seems to be a correct answer.

Little Boy Blue, and Man in the Moon are references to nursery rhymes. Silver spoon may refer to the gift that was customary to make for the baby at the christening or birthday.. And finally, I think the cat referred in the song is the baby itself. How are the fairy tales referenced in the song are relevant? The question is asking what "Cat's in the Cradle" refers to in popular culture. In my experience that has always been a reference to the song itself, not the fairy tales in the song.

BlueRaja-DannyPflughoeft It answers the question in the title, which is what readers here were curious about when they clicked the link to this question. The title, and text of the question ask "what does cats in the cradle" mean, not 'what are people referring to'.

Ultimately, I guess my answer to the question is "it means relatively little - people are referencing a song, which was in turn referencing a book. In the book, the cats were literal cats who got swept away in a literal cradle.

Cat's in the Cradle

Also, it seems more likely to me that cat's cradle would refer to the children's game with a string on your fingers? Its popularity and how wide spread it was seems to make it a far more likely candidate, unless I'm underestimating how well known the fairy tale would be. Wau, thanks, that's very interesting! As soon as I am able to upvote I will. As someone who is allergic to cats, I have no trouble working out where this belief came from.

Mar 23 '17 at Note that the section this was quoted from in wikipedia is marked as "This section possibly contains original research" and contains no citations. The paragraph starting with "While most of the song is fairly literal", which includes this quote, was added by user Thue only 4 days ago with no sources.

So this answer is nothing more than an echo of a brand new opinion from a random person who doesn't have much credibility on the subject.

Cats in the Cradle Songtext

It refers to the importance of developing a good relationship between father and son emphasis mine The phrase "Cats in the Cradle" is a familiar one to most everyone, but it is a phrase that brings about mixed emotions. And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, Little boy blue and the man in the moon. You know we'll have a good time then.

• Managing Your Strengths
• The Basics of Understanding Financial Statements: Learn how to read financial statements by understanding the balance sheet, the income statement, and the cash flow statement
• Daddy Is That The Best You Got?
• Sécurité de la dématérialisation (Solutions dentreprise) (French Edition)
• Irelands Professional Amateurs : A Sports Season At Its Purest