Perhaps this puts a lump in your throat, too.  Usually, one finds musical birds on the lines of a music staff, as if they're perching on telephone wires.  But here's what happened to the birds.  From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1915 yearbook.

From Hampden-Sydney's 1909 yearbook.

From Monmouth's 1910 yearbook.

Shoes as musical notes?  We thought of this illustration from Colorado College's 1905 yearbook when we encountered a drawing of shoes on a piano at Rubel Castle in Glendora, California.

From Peace Institute's 1909 yearbook.

Four years before Smokey Bear first cautioned against being a firebug, there was this donkey singing from "The Firefly."  From Centenary's 1940 yearbook.

From St. Joseph's 1921 yearbook.

Today's bat being serenaded by a dove is from Fliegende Blätter, 1923.

Even the paintings don't like the cat music.  From Lustige Blätter, 1917.  If you, too, would like to make others run away screaming, see How to Be Your Own Cat.