Virtute The Cat Explains Her Departure (JK Sampson-Fellows Cover)

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John K. (then just) Sampson wrote a song cycle about/by/for a cat named Virtute over thirteen long years.

Personally, I think it is one of the greatest musical achievements, ever, by anyone who is (or once was) Canadian.

Here's my slightly warbly version of the second, most heartbreaking, tune...

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Imagine, if you will, how flummoxed this listener was to learn that the Sampson-Fellows family doesn't even own a cat...
Image at the top of the post...Our cat, not named Virtute, getting ready for a late afternoon/setting sun ride on the ferry...

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