Meinst Du das?

Eigentlich heißt es ja wirklich nichts anderes als "Die Katze ist in der Wiege"...

Wörtlich wäre es ja wohl "Katzen in der Wiege" (cats in the cradle), während sich das Spiel selbst als ""Wiege der Katze" (cat's cradle) übersetzen ließe.

http://www.swr3.de/musik/lyrix/-/id=47416/nid...

vielleicht hilft Dir das

All der Kinderkram - die Schmusekatzen in seiner Wiege, und sein erstes Essbesteck, und das Märchen vom Mann im Mond.

Es geht in erster Linie darum, dass der Vater nie wirklich Zeit für sein Kind hat

dude, NonNees Anfrage war etwas irreführend, denn der Titel heißt "Cat´s in the cradle"...

Oops, meinte natürlich BoBs Frage... :-}

Flasch! Der Titel heißt definitiv "Cats In The Cradle"

Skipper, might be that I was mistaken by these lines from the song:

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon,
Little boy blue and the man in the moon.

BTW: Der Song ist von Ugly Kid Joe, nicht von Guns'n Roses

Es handelt sich dabei um eine Aufzählung von Kinderspielen und -Reimen:
Cat's cradle ist ein Fadespiel, wie schon erwähnt, und die Referenzen auf den "silver spoon, Little boy blue and the man in the moon" beziehen sich auf versch. Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes, wie zB:

Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon.
The little dog laughed to see such fun,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

"silver spoon" könnte auch auf ein sehr (finanziell) priviligiertes Kind hindeuten ("born with a silver spoon in his mouth" = in einer reichen Familie geboren)

I posted a comment about this in a July 2004 thread that seems to have been deleted from the archive, so I'll just quote myself, for the record:

The lines in the song refrain may look at first like innocent, nostalgic references to childhood, but they also have more ominous associations that reinforce the sadness of the father's absence.

A cat's cradle is a children's string game (Fadenspiel, as LEO says), but there was also an old wives' tale (superstition) that cats should be kept away from cradles because they were said to suffocate babies.

The spoon might be from the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle," but there's also an idiom "to be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth," which means to be born rich, to have everything handed to you on a silver platter and not know how to live or work independently.

"Little Boy Blue" is also a nursery rhyme, with similar lines about animals ("the sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn"). But "blue" also means sad or depressed, as the boy in the Chapin song is without his father. And "The Man in the Moon" is another Mother Goose nonsense rhyme, but the image also suggests how distant the father is, from his young son's point of view.

It's CATS and the song is from UGLY KID JOE

As already stated in #1, the song's by Harry Chapin. (1974)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_in_the_Cradle.

After 15 months, I don't know that we've helped BoB very much.