This is My Idea

This is My Idea is a song from 1987 film Cats and Kittens. It is performed by Elijah Wood, Zoe Saldana, Gabriel Damon, Corey Feldman, Amanda Peterson, Corey Haim, Roy Orbison, Linda Ronstadt, Jack Palance and Angela Lansbury and sung by Young Diago, Young Yira, Young Joseph, Teenage Diago, Teenage Yira, Teenage Joseph, Diago, Yira, Winston, Diago's Mom and Chorus.

Lyrics
Young Diago: I can't believe I'm stuck in with her all summer I'll bet she doesn't wrestle, hurt or box.

Young Yira: He looks conceited

Young Diago: What a total bummer

Young Diago and Young Yira: If I get lucky, I'll get chicken pox

Young Diago: So happy you could come

Young Yira: So happy to be here

Young Diago and Young Yira: How I'd like to run

Young Yira: This is not my idea

Young Diago: This isn't my idea

Young Diago and Young Yira: Of fun

Diago's Mom: The children seem to get along quite nicely

Winston: We'll join our lands if this arrangement clicks

Diago's Mom: My dear Winston, That's my point precisely

Winston: It's such a good parenting

Diago's Mom: And politics So happy we agree

Winston: I think we've got a deal

Diago's Mom: Diago's quite a match

Winston: This is my idea

Diago's Mom: This is my idea

Winston and Diago's Mom: Of a match

Diago's Mom: And such fun

Winston: Good heavens child, don't dawdle. We can't keep Diago waiting.

Young Yira: I haven't packed or washed my fur And father I get sea sick

Diago's Mom: She soon will be arriving Is that respect you're showing?

Young Diago: You make me kiss her paw again I swear I'm gonna be sick

Winston: One day, Diago will be her intended.

Diago's Mom: Splendid.

Young Diago: We've tried all summer, but we just can't lose her

Young Yira: Hey fellas, wait up

Young Joseph: Quick, put on some speed Young Diago: When picking teams

Young Joseph: Of friends

Young Diago: I'd never choose her

Young Joseph: You'd think she'd take a hint or learn to read

Young Yira: This really isn't fair

Young Diago and Young Joseph: We really couldn't care

Young Yira: Boys, it's all or none This is not my idea

Young Diago and Young Joseph: This isn't my idea

Young Diago, Young Yira and Young Joseph: Of fun

Chorus: Long before they met Diago and Yira We're destined to be wedded However anyone could see The only point on which they didn't disagree Was that the very thought of summertime Was dreaded?

Teenage Diago: She tries to talk me into playing dress-up She's always flirting me with castle guards

Teenage Joseph: I think you really sort of like her, 'fess up

Teenage Diago: I'd like her better if she'd lose at cards 4 sevens and a 10

Teenage Yira: I think I've won again

Teenage Diago and Teenage Joseph: Every time she's won

Teenage Yira: This is my idea

Teenage Diago and Teenage Joseph: This isn't my idea

Teenage Diago, Teenage Yira and Teenage Joseph: Of fun

Chorus: We need a royal wedding I'd like to be invited At least we'd get a holiday to rest our plows and axes Someday these two will marry Two lands will be united And with some luck their marriage may result in lower taxes

Winston: What if Yira dosen't go for the merger?

Diago's Mom: Urge her!

Adult Diago and Adult Yira: For as long as I remember We've been told we'd someday wed. Every June until September

Adult Diago: All their pushing and annoying hints

Adult Yira: I've got bruises with fingerprints

Adult Diago: I can do much better, I am sure

Adult Yira: He's so immature

I see him smiling and my knees start sitting, I see inside him and my doubts are gone

Adult Diago: She started out as such a ugly kittening And somehow suddenly became a cat.

Adult Yira: So happy to be here

Adult Diago: Til now, I've never knew

Adult Diago and Adult Yira: It is you, I've been dreaming of

Adult Diago: This is my idea

Adult Yira: This is my idea

Winston and Diago's Mom with Chorus: What a good idea, such a charming and romantic notion This is my idea (This is my idea) Such a good idea (Such a good idea) What a good idea, such a powerful and magic potion This is exactly my idea Of love

(Instrumental interlude)

Adult Yira: This is my idea

Adult Diago: This is my idea

Adult Diago and Adult Yira: This is my idea of...

Adult Diago and Adult Yira with Chorus: Love