The Cat in the Window (The Bird in the Sky)

Infobox Single
Name = The Cat in the Window (The Bird in the Sky)


Artist = Petula Clark
from Album = "The Other Man's Grass is Always Greener"
Released = 1967
Format = Vinyl
Recorded = 1967
B-side = "Fancy Dancin' Man"
Genre =
Length =
Label = Warner Bros.(US)/Vogue (UK)
Writers =
Producers = Charles Koppelman and Don Rubin
Chart position = 9 (US Adult Contemporary), 11 (Canada), 19 (Australia), 26 (US)
Reviews =
Last single = "Don't Sleep in the Subway"
This single = "The Cat in the Window (The Bird in the Sky)"
Next single = "The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener"

"The Cat in the Window (The Bird in the Sky)" is a 1967 song, with words and music by Gary Bonner and Alan Gordon, recorded by Petula Clark. Difficult to categorize in a specific musical genre, with an arrangement heavy with strings and flutes, it was a major departure from the style of music associated with her long collaboration with songwriters Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent.

In it, the narrator compares herself to a cat ("with a tear in his eye"), eager to escape his captivity and "fly out the window, go where the wind goes" like the birds he observes flying by. Resolving to "glide to a rainbow off where the clouds go dancing by," she ends with the plaintive comment, "You won't find me . . . don't even try to."

The song, which peaked at #11 in Canada and #26 in the US, also was recorded by The Turtles.