p. 211
Alternate Title: 
Bought Me a Cat
First Line: 
Bought me a cat, the cat pleased me

About the Song

Print source: 
Alan Lomax, Folk Songs of North America, #230, p.440

"Fiddle-I-Fee" aka "Bought Me a Cat" is a traditional American folk children's "repeating" song.  A similar song is "I Had a Rooster," page 170 in the Rise Up Singing Songbook.

Classical composer Aaron Copland did an arrangement of Fiddle-i-fee and other children's songs. The three choral arrangements of the song below utilize Copland's arrangement.