♪ Can you look at a king? ♪
♪ Are you blind when you're born? ♪
♪ Can you see in the dark? ♪
♪ Would you sit on his throne? ♪
♪ Can you say of your bite ♪
♪ That it's worse than your bark? ♪
♪ Are you cock of the walk ♪
♪ When you're walking alone? ♪
♪ When you fall on your head ♪
♪ Do you land on your feet? ♪
♪ Are you tense when you sense ♪
♪ There's a storm in the air? ♪
♪ Can you find your way blind ♪
♪ When you're lost in the street? ♪
♪ Do you know how to go to the Heaviside Layer? ♪
♪ Because Jellicles can and Jellicles do ♪
♪ Jellicles do and Jellicles can ♪
♪ Jellicles can and Jellicles do ♪
♪ Jellicles do and Jellicles can ♪
♪ Jellicles can and Jellicles do ♪
♪ Can you ride on a broomstick to places far distant? ♪
♪ -Familiar with candle -With book ♪
♪ And with bell? ♪
♪ Were you Whittington's friend? ♪
♪ The Pied Piper's assistant? ♪
♪ Have you been an alumnus of heaven or hell? ♪
♪ -Are you mean like a minx? -Are you lean like a lynx? ♪
♪ Are you keen to be seen ♪
♪ When you're smelling a rat? ♪
♪ Were you there when the pharaohs ♪
♪ Commissioned the Sphinx? ♪
♪ If you were and you are ♪
♪ You're a Jellicle cat ♪
♪ Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats ♪
♪ We can dive through the air ♪
♪ Like a flying trapeze ♪
♪ We can turn double somersaults ♪
♪ Bounce on a tire ♪
♪ We can run up a wall ♪
♪ We can swing through the trees ♪
♪ We can balance on bars, we can walk on a wire ♪
♪ Jellicles can and Jellicles do ♪
♪ Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats ♪
♪ Can you sing at the same time in more than one key? ♪
♪ -Duets by Rossini? -And waltzes by Strauss? ♪
♪ Ah... ♪
♪ And can you, as cats do, begin with a "C"? ♪
♪ Ah ♪
♪ That always triumphantly brings down the house ♪
♪ Jellicle cats are queens of the night ♪
♪ Singing at astronomical heights ♪
♪ Handling pieces from the Messiah ♪
♪ Hallelujah, angelical choir ♪
♪ The mystical divinity ♪
♪ Of unashamed felinity ♪
♪ Round the cathedral rang ♪
♪ "Vivat" ♪
♪ Life to the ♪
♪ Everlasting Cat ♪
♪ Feline, fearless ♪
♪ Faithful and true to others who do ♪
♪ What? ♪
♪ Jellicles do and Jellicles can ♪
♪ Jellicles can and Jellicles do ♪
♪ Jellicle cats sing Jellicle chants ♪
♪ Jellicles old and Jellicles new ♪
♪ Jellicle song and Jellicle dance ♪
♪ Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats ♪
♪ Practical cats ♪
♪ Dramatical cats ♪
♪ Pragmatical cats ♪
♪ Fanatical cats ♪
♪ Oratorical cats ♪
♪ Delphicoracle cats ♪
♪ Skeptical cats ♪
♪ Dyspeptical cats ♪
♪ Romantical cats ♪
♪ Pedantical cats ♪
♪ Critical cats ♪
♪ Parasitical cats ♪
♪ Allegorical cats ♪
♪ Metaphorical cats ♪
♪ Statistical cats ♪
♪ And mystical cats ♪
♪ Political cats ♪
♪ Hypocritical cats ♪
♪ Clerical cats ♪
♪ Hysterical cats ♪
♪ Cynical cats ♪
♪ Rabbinical cats ♪
♪ And magical cats ♪
♪ Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats ♪
♪ Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats, Jellicle ♪
♪ Songs for Jellicle cats. ♪
♪ There's no one like Macavity ♪
A wonderful magician.
♪ But a monster ♪
♪ Of depravity ♪
♪ Jellicle cats, come out tonight ♪
♪ Jellicle cats, come one, come all ♪
♪ The Jellicle moon is shining bright ♪
♪ Jellicles, come to the Jellicle Ball ♪
♪ Jellicle cats, come out tonight ♪
♪ Jellicles, come to the ♪
♪ Jellicle Ball ♪
♪ Jellicle cats meet once a year ♪
♪ At the Jellicle Ball where we all rejoice ♪
♪ And the Jellicle leader will soon appear ♪
♪ And make what is known as the Jellicle choice ♪
♪ When Old Deuteronomy just before dawn ♪
♪ Through a silence you feel you could cut with a knife ♪
♪ Announces the cat who can now be reborn ♪
♪ And come back to a different Jellicle life ♪
♪ For waiting up there is the Heaviside Layer ♪
♪ Full of wonders one Jellicle only will see ♪
♪ And Jellicles ask because Jellicles dare ♪
♪ Who will it be? ♪
CHORUS: ♪ Who will it be? ♪
♪ I have a Gumbie Cat in mind ♪
♪ Her name is Jennyanydots ♪
♪ Her coat is of the tabby kind ♪
♪ With tiger stripes and leopard spots ♪
♪ All day she sits upon the stair ♪
♪ Or on the step ♪
♪ Or on the mat ♪
♪ She sits and sits and sits ♪
♪ And sits ♪
♪ And that's what makes a Gumbie Cat ♪
♪ That's what makes a Gumbie Cat ♪
♪ But... ♪
♪ When the day's hustle and bustle is done ♪
♪ Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun ♪
♪ And when all the family's in bed and asleep ♪
♪ I tuck up my skirts to the basement to creep ♪
♪ I am deeply concerned ♪
♪ With the ways of the mice ♪
♪ Their behavior's not good ♪
♪ And their manners not nice ♪
♪ So when I have got them lined up on the matting ♪
♪ I teach them music, crocheting and tatting ♪
♪ Diddly dup, diddly dup, diddly dup wup boo ♪
♪ Diddy dup, diddly dup ♪
♪ Diddly dup wup boo ♪
♪ Diddy dup, diddly dup, diddly dup ♪
♪ -Wah, wah -A doo ba doo ba doo ♪
♪ Ba doo ba biddly da doo da ♪
♪ Waddly wah, waddly wah ♪
It's dinner and a show.
♪ Wah wah, waddly wah ♪
♪ Waddly wah, waddly wah wah wah ♪
JENNYANYDOTS: ♪ A doo ba doo ba doo ♪
MUNKUSTRAP: ♪ I have a Gumbie Cat in mind ♪
♪ -Her name is Jennyanydots - MICE:Jennyanydots ♪
♪ The curtain cord she likes to wind ♪
♪ And tie it into ♪
♪ Sailor knots ♪
Ooh.
♪ She sits upon the windowsill ♪
♪ Or anything that's smooth and flat ♪
♪ She sits and sits ♪
♪ And sits and sits ♪
♪ And that's what makes a Gumbie Cat ♪
♪ That's what makes ♪
♪ A Gumbie Cat ♪
♪ But... ♪
♪ When the day's hustle and bustle is done ♪
♪ Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun ♪
♪ I think that the cockroaches need employment ♪
♪ To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment ♪
♪ So I formed from that lot of disorderly louts ♪
♪ A troop of well-disciplined, helpful Boy Scouts ♪
♪ With a purpose in life and a good deed to do ♪
♪ And I've even created ♪
♪ A beetles tattoo ♪
♪ So for Old Gumbie Cats let's now give three cheers ♪
♪ On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears ♪
♪ Three cheers, three cheers, three cheers ♪
♪ Thank you, my dears. ♪
♪ The Rum Tum Tugger ♪
♪ -Is a curious cat -A curious cat ♪
♪ If you offer me pheasant, I'd rather have grouse ♪
♪ If you put me in a house, I would much prefer a flat ♪
♪ If you put me in a flat, then I'd rather have a house ♪
♪ If you set me on a mouse, then I only want a rat ♪
♪ If you set me on a rat, then I'd rather chase a mouse ♪
CHORUS: ♪ The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious cat ♪
♪ And there isn't any call for me to shout it ♪
CHORUS: ♪ For he will do as he do do ♪
♪ And there's no doing anything abou-awou-awou-out it ♪
♪ The Rum Tum Tugger is a terrible bore ♪
♪ When you let me in, then I want to go out ♪
♪ I'm always on the wrong side of every door ♪
♪ As soon as I get home, then I like to get about ♪
♪ I like to lie in a bureau drawer ♪
♪ But I make such a fuss if I can't get out ♪
♪ Whoo! ♪
CHORUS: ♪ The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious cat ♪
♪ And there isn't any use for you to doubt it ♪
♪ For he will do as he do do ♪
♪ And there's no doing anything ♪
♪ Abou-awou-awou-out it ♪
♪ The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious beast ♪
♪ My disobliging ways is a matter of habit ♪
♪ If you offer me fish, then I always want a feast ♪
♪ When there isn't any fish ♪
♪ Well, darling, I'm not having rabbit ♪
♪ If you offer me cream, then I sniff and sneer ♪
♪ For I only like ♪
♪ What I find ♪
♪ For myself ♪
♪ Victoria... ♪
♪ So you'll catch me in it right up to my ears ♪
♪ If you put it away on the larder shelf, whoo! ♪
♪ The Rum Tum Tugger ♪
♪ Is artful and knowing ♪
♪ -The Rum Tum Tugger -Doesn't care for a cuddle ♪
♪ But I'll leap up in your lap in the middle of your sewing ♪
♪ For there's nothing I enjoy like a horrible muddle ♪
♪ The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious cat ♪
♪ The Rum Tum Tugger ♪
♪ Doesn't care for a cuddle ♪
♪ The Rum Tum Tugger is ♪
♪ A curious cat ♪
♪ And there isn't any need for me to spout it ♪
♪ For he will do as he do do ♪
♪ And there's no ♪
♪ Doing anything ♪
♪ About ♪
♪ About... ♪
♪ There's no doing anything, yeah ♪
♪ About ♪
♪ About it. ♪
♪ Remark the cat ♪
♪ Who hesitates towards you ♪
♪ In the light of the door ♪
♪ Which opens on her ♪
♪ Like a grin ♪
♪ You see the border of her coat ♪
♪ Is torn ♪
♪ And stained with sand ♪
♪ And you see ♪
♪ The corner of her eye twist ♪
♪ Like a crooked pin ♪
♪ -And -She haunted ♪
♪ Many a low resort ♪
♪ Near the grimy road ♪
♪ Of Tottenham Court ♪
♪ She flitted about ♪
♪ The no-man's-land ♪
♪ From the Rising Sun ♪
♪ To the Friend At Hand ♪
♪ And the postman sighed ♪
♪ As he scratched his head ♪
♪ You'd really have thought ♪
♪ She'd ought to be dead ♪
♪ And who'd have ever supposed that that ♪
♪ Was Grizabella ♪
♪ The Glamour Cat ♪
♪ Grizabella the Glamour Cat ♪
♪ Who'd have ever supposed ♪
♪ That that ♪
♪ Was Grizabella ♪
♪ The Glamour Cat. ♪
♪ I'm Bustopher Jones ♪
♪ I'm not skin and bones ♪
♪ In fact, I'm remarkably fat ♪
♪ I don't haunt pubs ♪
♪ I have eight or nine clubs ♪
♪ For I'm the St. James's Street cat ♪
♪ I'm the cat they all greet ♪
♪ As I walk down the street ♪
♪ In my coat of fastidious black ♪
♪ No commonplace mousers ♪
♪ Have such well-cut trousers ♪
♪ Or such an impeccable back ♪
♪ In the whole of St. James's, the smartest of names is ♪
♪ The name of this Brummell of cats ♪
♪ And we're all of us proud to be nodded or bowed to ♪
♪ By Bustopher Jones in white spats ♪
♪ My visits are occasional to the Senior Educational ♪
♪ And it is against the rules ♪
♪ For any one cat to belong both to that ♪
♪ And the Joint Superior Schools ♪
♪ For a similar reason, when game is in season ♪
♪ I'm found not at Fox's but Blimp's ♪
♪ I am frequently seen ♪
♪ At the gay Stage and Screen ♪
♪ Which is famous for winkles and shrimps ♪
♪ In the season of venison ♪
♪ I give my benison ♪
♪ To the Pothunter's succulent bones ♪
♪ And just before noon's not a moment too soon ♪
♪ And just before noon's ♪
♪ Not a moment too s... ♪ Hey!
♪ To drop in for a drink at the Dro... ♪
♪ O... o... ♪
♪ O... ones ♪
Thanks, Tugger.
♪ When I'm seen in a hurry ♪
♪ There's probably curry ♪
♪ At the Siamese or at the Glutton ♪
♪ If I look full of gloom ♪
♪ Then I've lunched at the Tomb ♪
♪ On cabbage, rice pudding and mutton ♪
♪ In the whole of St. James's, the smartest of names is ♪
♪ The name of this Brummell of cats ♪
♪ And we're all of us proud to be nodded or bowed to ♪
♪ By Bustopher Jones in white ♪
♪ Bustopher Jones in white ♪
♪ Bustopher Jones in white spats ♪
♪ So much in this way passes Bustopher's day ♪
♪ -At one club -Or another I'm found ♪
♪ It can be no surprise that under our eyes ♪
♪ He has grown unmistakably round ♪
♪ I'm a 25-pounder or I am a bounder ♪
♪ And I'm putting on weight every day ♪
♪ But I'm so well-preserved because I've observed ♪
♪ All my life a routine, and I'd say ♪
♪ I am still in my prime, I shall last out my time ♪
CHORUS: ♪ That's the word from the stoutest of cats ♪
♪ It must and it shall be spring in Pall Mall ♪
♪ While Bustopher Jones wears white ♪
♪ Bustopher Jones wears white ♪
♪ Bustopher Jones wears white. ♪
♪ -Mungojerrie -And Rumpelteazer ♪
♪ We're a notorious couple of cats ♪
♪ -As knockabout clowns -Quick-change comedians ♪
♪ -Tightrope walkers -♪ And acrobats ♪
♪ We have an extensive reputation ♪
♪ We make our home in Victoria Grove ♪
♪ This is merely our center of operation ♪
♪ For we are incurably given to rove ♪
♪ We are very well-known ♪
♪ In Cornwall Gardens, in Launceston Place ♪
♪ And in Kensington Square ♪
♪ We have really a little more reputation ♪
♪ Than a couple of cats can very well bear ♪
♪ If the area window is found ajar ♪
♪ And the bedroom looks like a field of war ♪
♪ If a tile or two ♪
♪ Comes loose on the roof ♪
♪ Which presently fails ♪
♪ To be waterproof ♪
♪ If the drawers are pulled out from the bedroom chest ♪
♪ And you can't find one of your winter vests ♪
♪ Or after supper one of the girls ♪
♪ Suddenly misses her Woolworth pearls ♪
♪ The family will say ♪
♪ "It's that horrible cat" ♪
♪ It was Mungojerrie ♪
♪ Or Rumpelteazer ♪
♪ And most of the time they leave it at that ♪
♪ Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer ♪
♪ Have a very unusual gift of the gab ♪
♪ We're highly efficient cat burglars as well ♪
♪ And remarkably smart ♪
♪ At the smash-and-grab ♪
♪ We make our home in Victoria Grove ♪
♪ We have no regular occupation ♪
♪ We are plausible fellows who like to engage ♪
♪ A friendly policeman in conversation ♪
♪ When the family assembles ♪
♪ For Sunday dinner ♪
♪ Their minds made up that they won't get thinner ♪
♪ On Argentine joint, potatoes and greens ♪
♪ Then the cook would appear from behind the scenes ♪
♪ And say in a voice that is broken with sorrow ♪
♪ "I'm afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrow ♪
♪ For the joint is gone from the oven like that" ♪
♪ Then the family will say ♪
♪ "It's that horrible cat" ♪
♪ It was Mungojerrie ♪
♪ Or Rumpelteazer ♪
♪ And most of the time they leave it at that ♪
♪ -Mungojerrie -And Rumpelteazer ♪
♪ Have a wonderful way of working together ♪
♪ And some of the time you would ♪
♪ Say it was luck ♪
♪ And some of the time ♪
♪ You would say it was weather ♪
♪ We go through the house like a hurricane ♪
♪ And no sober person could take his oath ♪
♪ Was it Mungojerrie? ♪
♪ Or Rumpelteazer? ♪
♪ Or could you have sworn that it might have been both? ♪
♪ And when you hear a dining room smash ♪
♪ Or up from the pantry there comes a loud crash ♪
♪ Or down from the library there comes a loud ping ♪
♪ From a vase that was commonly said to be Ming ♪
♪ Then the family will say ♪
♪ "Now, which was which cat?" ♪
♪ It was Mungojerrie ♪
♪ And ♪
♪ Rumpelteazer ♪
♪ And there's nothing at all to be done about that. ♪
♪ I'm a Bravo Cat, I travel on a barge ♪
♪ In fact, I am the roughest cat ♪
♪ Who ever roamed at large ♪
♪ From Gravesend up to Oxford ♪
♪ I pursue my evil aims ♪
♪ Rejoicing in my title of ♪
♪ The Terror of the "Taymes" ♪
♪ Old Deuteronomy's ♪
♪ Lived a long time ♪
♪ She's a cat who has lived ♪
♪ Many lives in succession ♪
♪ She was famous in proverb ♪
♪ And famous in rhyme ♪
♪ A long while before Queen Victoria's accession ♪
♪ Old Deuteronomy's ♪
♪ Lived many lives ♪
♪ You know, I am tempted to say 99 ♪
♪ And her numerous progeny ♪
♪ Prospers and thrives ♪
♪ And the village is proud of her ♪
♪ In her decline ♪
♪ At the sight of that placid and bland physiognomy ♪
♪ When she sits in the sun ♪
♪ On the vicarage wall ♪
♪ Oldest inhabitant croaks ♪
♪ "Well, of all things ♪
♪ "Can it be really? ♪
♪ "Yes, no, ho, hi ♪
♪ "Oh, my eye ♪
♪ "My mind may be wandering, but I confess ♪
♪ I believe it is Old Deuteronomy" ♪
♪ "Well, of all things ♪
♪ "Can it be really? ♪
♪ "Yes, no, ho, hi, oh, my eye ♪
♪ "My mind may be wandering, but I confess ♪
♪ I believe it is Old Deuteronomy" ♪
♪ "Well, of all things ♪
♪ "Can it be really? ♪
♪ "Yes, no, ho, hi, oh, my eye ♪
♪ "My mind may be wandering, but I confess ♪
♪ I believe it is Old Deuteronomy" ♪
♪ "Well, of all things ♪
♪ "Can it be really? ♪
♪ Yes, no, ho, hi, oh, my eye" ♪
♪ My legs may be tottery ♪
♪ I must go slow ♪
♪ And be careful of Old Deuteronomy ♪
♪ Jellicle cats meet once a year ♪
♪ On the night we make the Jellicle choice ♪
♪ And now the Jellicle leader is here ♪
♪ Jellicle cats can all rejoice ♪
♪ Jellicle cats, come out tonight ♪
♪ Jellicle cats, come one, come all ♪
♪ The Jellicle moon is shining bright ♪
♪ Jellicles, come to the Jellicle Ball ♪
♪ Jellicle cats are black and white ♪
♪ Jellicle cats are rather small ♪
♪ Jellicle cats are merry and bright ♪
♪ And pleasant to hear when they caterwaul ♪
♪ Jellicle cats ♪
♪ Have cheerful faces ♪
♪ Jellicle cats have bright black eyes ♪
♪ We like to practice our airs and graces ♪
♪ And wait for the Jellicle moon to rise ♪
♪ Jellicle cats develop slowly ♪
♪ Jellicle cats are not too big ♪
♪ Jellicle cats are roly-poly ♪
♪ We know how to dance a gavotte and a jig ♪
♪ Until the Jellicle moon appears ♪
♪ We make our toilette and take our repose ♪
♪ Jellicles wash behind their ears ♪
♪ Jellicles dry between their toes ♪
♪ Jellicle cats are white and black ♪
♪ Jellicle cats are of moderate size ♪
♪ Jellicles jump like a jumping jack ♪
♪ Jellicle cats have moonlit eyes ♪
♪ Jellicle cats are black and white ♪
♪ Jellicle cats, as we said, are small ♪
♪ If it happens to be a stormy night ♪
♪ We'll practice a caper or two in the hall ♪
♪ If it happens the sun is shining bright ♪
♪ You would say we had nothing to do at all ♪
♪ We are resting and saving ourselves to be right ♪
♪ For the Jellicle moon and the Jellicle Ball ♪
♪ Jellicle cats, come out tonight ♪
♪ Jellicle cats, come one, come all ♪
♪ The Jellicle moon is shining bright ♪
♪ Jellicles, come to the Jellicle Ball ♪
♪ Jellicle cats, come out tonight ♪
♪ Jellicle cats, come one, come all ♪
♪ The Jellicle moon is shining bright ♪
♪ Jellicles, come to the Jellicle Ball. ♪
♪ Silence ♪
♪ Not a sound from the pavement ♪
♪ Has the moon lost her memory? ♪
♪ She is smiling alone ♪
♪ In the lamplight ♪
♪ The withered leaves collect at my feet ♪
♪ And the wind ♪
♪ Begins to moan ♪
♪ Every streetlamp ♪
♪ Seems to beat ♪
♪ A fatalistic warning ♪
♪ Someone mutters ♪
♪ And the streetlamp gutters ♪
♪ And soon it will be morning ♪
♪ Memory ♪
♪ All alone in the moonlight ♪
♪ I can smile at the old days ♪
♪ I was beautiful then ♪
♪ I remember ♪
♪ The time I knew what happiness was ♪
♪ Let the memory live ♪
♪ Again. ♪
♪ Follow me home ♪
♪ If you dare to ♪
♪ I wouldn't know ♪
♪ Where to lead you ♪
♪ Should I take chances ♪
♪ When no one took chances on me? ♪
♪ So I watch from the dark, wait for my life to start ♪
♪ With no beauty in my memory ♪
♪ All that I wanted ♪
♪ Was to be wanted ♪
♪ Too young to wander London streets ♪
♪ Alone and haunted ♪
♪ Born into nothing ♪
♪ At least you have something ♪
♪ Something to cling to ♪
♪ Visions of dazzling rooms ♪
♪ I'll never get let into ♪
♪ And the memories were lost long ago ♪
♪ But at least you have beautiful ghosts ♪
♪ And so maybe my home isn't what I had known ♪
♪ What I thought it would be ♪
♪ But I feel so alive ♪
♪ With these phantoms of night ♪
♪ And I know that this life isn't safe ♪
♪ But it's wild and it's free ♪
♪ All that I wanted ♪
♪ Was to be wanted ♪
♪ I'll never wander London streets ♪
♪ Alone and haunted ♪
♪ Born into nothing ♪
♪ With them I have something ♪
♪ Something to cling to ♪
♪ I never knew I'd love this world they let me into ♪
♪ And the memories were lost long ago ♪
♪ So I'll dance with these beautiful ghosts ♪
♪ The memories were lost long ago ♪
♪ So I'll dance with these beautiful ♪
♪ Ghosts. ♪
♪ The moments of happiness ♪
♪ We had the experience ♪
♪ But missed the meaning ♪
♪ And approach to the meaning ♪
♪ Restores the experience ♪
♪ In a different form ♪
♪ Beyond any meaning ♪
♪ We can assign to happiness ♪
♪ The past experience ♪
♪ Revived in the meaning ♪
♪ Is not the experience ♪
♪ Of one life only ♪
♪ But of many generations ♪
♪ Not forgetting ♪
♪ Something that is probably quite ♪
♪ Ineffable. ♪
♪ Gus is the cat ♪
♪ At the theater door ♪
♪ Uh, my name, as I ought to have told you before ♪
♪ Is really Asparagus ♪
♪ But that's such a fuss to pronounce ♪
♪ That they usually call me just Gus ♪
♪ My coat's very shabby ♪
♪ I'm thin as a rake ♪
♪ And I suffer from palsy which makes my paws shake ♪
♪ Yet I was, in my youth, quite the smartest of cats ♪
♪ Though no longer a terror to mice or to rats ♪
♪ For I'm not the cat that I was in my prime ♪
♪ Though my name was quite famous ♪
♪ They say, in my time ♪
♪ And whenever I join my friends at their club ♪
♪ Which takes place at the back of the neighboring pub ♪
♪ I love to regale them, if someone else pays ♪
♪ With anecdotes drawn from my palmiest days ♪
♪ For I once was a star of the highest degree ♪
♪ I have acted with Irving ♪
♪ I've acted with Tree ♪
♪ And I like to recall my success on the halls ♪
♪ When the gallery once gave me seven catcalls ♪
♪ But my grandest creation ♪
♪ As I love to tell ♪
♪ Was Firefrorefiddle ♪
♪ The Fiend of the Fell ♪
♪ Then if someone will give me a toothful of gin ♪
♪ I will tell how I once played a part in East Lynne ♪
♪ In a Shakespeare performance I once walked on pat ♪
♪ When some actor suggested the need for a cat ♪
♪ And I say now these kittens ♪
♪ They do not get trained ♪
♪ As we did in the days when Victoria reigned ♪
♪ They do not get drilled in a regular troupe ♪
♪ And they think it is smart just to jump through a hoop ♪
♪ And I say as I scratch myself with my claws ♪
♪ Well, the theater is certainly not what it was ♪
♪ These modern productions are all very well ♪
♪ But there's nothing to equal ♪
♪ From what I hear tell ♪
♪ That moment of mystery ♪
♪ When I made history ♪
♪ As Firefrorefiddle ♪
♪ The Fiend of the Fell... ♪
♪ Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat ♪
♪ The Cat of the Railway Train ♪
♪ There's a whisper down the line at 11:39 ♪
♪ When the Night Mail's ready to depart ♪
♪ Saying, "Skimble, where is Skimble? ♪
♪ "Has he gone to hunt the thimble? ♪
♪ We must find him or the train can't start" ♪
♪ All the guards and all the porters ♪
♪ And the stationmaster's daughters ♪
♪ Would be searching high and low ♪
♪ Saying, "Skimble, where is Skimble? ♪
♪ "For unless he's very nimble ♪
♪ Then the Night Mail just can't go" ♪
♪ At 11:42 with the signal overdue ♪
♪ And the passengers all frantic to a man ♪
♪ That's when I would appear ♪
♪ And I'd saunter to the rear ♪
♪ I'd been busy in the luggage van ♪
♪ Then he gives one flash of his glass-green eyes ♪
♪ And the signal goes "all clear" ♪
♪ And we're off at last for the northern part ♪
♪ Of the Northern Hemisphere ♪
♪ Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat ♪
♪ Skimbleshanks ♪
♪ The Railway Cat ♪
♪ Skimbleshanks, Skimbleshanks ♪
♪ Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat ♪
♪ The Cat of the Railway Train ♪
♪ You could say that by and large ♪
♪ It was me who was in charge of the Sleeping Car Express ♪
♪ From the driver and the guards ♪
♪ To the bagmen playing cards ♪
♪ I would supervise them all, more or less ♪
♪ I will watch you without winking ♪
♪ And I'll see what you are thinking ♪
♪ And it's certain that I wouldn't approve ♪
♪ Of hilarity and riot ♪
♪ So the folk are very quiet ♪
♪ When Skimble is about and on the move ♪
♪ You can play no pranks with Skimbleshanks ♪
♪ I'm a cat that cannot be ignored ♪
♪ So nothing goes wrong on the Northern Mail ♪
♪ When Skimbleshanks is aboard ♪
♪ Oh, it's very pleasant ♪
♪ When you've found your little den with your name ♪
♪ Written up on the door ♪
♪ And the berth is very neat with a newly folded sheet ♪
♪ And there's not a speck of dust on the floor ♪
♪ Then the guard looks in politely ♪
♪ And will ask you very brightly ♪
♪ "Do you like your morning tea ♪
♪ Weak or strong?" ♪
♪ But I was just behind him and was ready to remind him ♪
♪ For Skimble won't let anything go wrong ♪
♪ When you creep into your cozy berths ♪
♪ And pull up the counterpane ♪
♪ You ought to reflect that it's very nice ♪
♪ To know that you won't be ♪
♪ Bothered by mice ♪
♪ You can leave all that to the Railway Cat ♪
♪ The Cat of the Railway Train ♪
♪ Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat ♪
♪ The Cat of the Railway Train ♪
♪ And he gives you a wave of his long brown tail ♪
♪ Which says "I'll see you again" ♪
♪ You will meet without fail on the Midnight Mail ♪
♪ The Cat of the Railway ♪
♪ Train... ♪
♪ Macavity's a Mystery Cat ♪
♪ He's called the Hidden Paw ♪
♪ For he's the master criminal ♪
♪ Who can defy the law ♪
♪ He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard ♪
♪ The Flying Squad's despair ♪
♪ For when they reach the scene of crime ♪
♪ Macavity's not there ♪
♪ Macavity, Macavity ♪
♪ There's no one like Macavity ♪
♪ He's broken every human law ♪
♪ He breaks the law of gravity ♪
♪ His powers of levitation ♪
♪ Would make a fakir stare ♪
♪ But when they reach the scene of crime ♪
♪ Macavity's not there ♪
♪ Macavity's a ginger cat ♪
♪ He's very tall and thin ♪
♪ You would know him if you saw him ♪
♪ For his eyes are sunken in ♪
♪ His brow is deeply lined with thought ♪
♪ His head is highly domed ♪
♪ His coat is dusty from neglect ♪
♪ His whiskers are uncombed ♪
♪ He sways his head from side to side ♪
♪ With movements like a snake ♪
♪ And when you think he's half asleep ♪
♪ He's always ♪
♪ Wide awake! ♪
♪ Macavity, Macavity ♪
♪ There's no one like Macavity ♪
♪ For he's a fiend in feline shape ♪
♪ A monster of depravity ♪
♪ You may meet him in a bystreet ♪
♪ You may see him in the square ♪
♪ But when a crime's discovered, then ♪
♪ Macavity's not there ♪
♪ He's outwardly respectable ♪
♪ I know he cheats at cards ♪
♪ And his footprints are not found ♪
♪ In a-any files ♪
♪ Of Scotland Yard's ♪
♪ And when the larder's looted ♪
♪ And the jewel case is rifled ♪
♪ Or when the milk is missing ♪
♪ Or another Peke's been stifled ♪
♪ Or the greenhouse glass is broken ♪
♪ And the trellis past repair ♪
♪ There's the wonder of the thing ♪
♪ Macavity's not there ♪
♪ Macavity, Macavity ♪
♪ There's no one like Macavity ♪
♪ There never was a cat of such ♪
♪ Deceitfulness and suavity ♪
♪ He always has an alibi ♪
♪ And one or two to spare ♪
♪ Whatever time the deed took place ♪
♪ Macavity wasn't there ♪
♪ And they say that all the cats ♪
♪ Whose wicked deeds are widely known ♪
♪ I might mention Mungojerrie ♪
♪ Rumpelteazer, Griddlebone ♪
♪ Are nothing more than agents ♪
♪ For the cat who all the time ♪
♪ Just controls the operations ♪
MACAVITY: ♪ The Napoleon of crime ♪
♪ Macavity, Macavity ♪
♪ There's no one like Macavity ♪
♪ He's a fiend in feline shape ♪
♪ A monster of depravity ♪
♪ You may meet him in a bystreet ♪
♪ You may see him in a square ♪
♪ But when a crime's discovered, then ♪
♪ Macavity, Macavity ♪
♪ Macavity ♪
♪ When a crime's discovered, then ♪
♪ Macavity's not there. ♪
♪ The greatest magicians ♪
♪ Have something to learn ♪
♪ From Mr. Mistoffelees' conjuring turn ♪
♪ And we all say ♪
♪ "Oh, well, I never ♪
♪ "Was there ever a cat so clever ♪
♪ As magical Mr. Mistoffelees?" ♪
♪ I'm quiet and small ♪
♪ I am black ♪
♪ From my ears to the tip of my tail ♪
♪ I can creep through the tiniest crack ♪
♪ I can walk on the narrowest rail ♪
♪ I can pick any card from a pack ♪
♪ I am equally cunning with dice ♪
♪ I am always deceiving you into believing ♪
♪ That you're only hunting for mice ♪
♪ I can play any trick with a cork ♪
♪ Or a spoon and a bit of fish paste ♪
♪ If you look for a knife ♪
♪ Or a fork ♪
♪ And you think it is merely misplaced ♪
♪ You have seen it one moment, and then it is gone ♪
♪ But you find it next week lying out on the lawn ♪
♪ And we all say ♪
♪ "Oh, well, I never ♪
♪ "Was there ever a cat so clever ♪
♪ As magical Mr. Mistoffelees?" ♪
♪ My manner is vague and aloof ♪
♪ You would think there was nobody shyer ♪
♪ But my voice has been heard on the roof ♪
♪ When I was curled up by the fire ♪
♪ And I've sometimes been heard by the fire ♪
♪ When I was about on the roof ♪
♪ At least they all heard that somebody purred ♪
♪ Which is incontestable proof ♪
♪ Of my singular magical powers ♪
♪ And I've known the family to call ♪
♪ Me in from the garden for hours ♪
♪ When I was asleep in the hall ♪
♪ And not long ago this phenomenal cat ♪
♪ Produced seven kittens right out of a hat ♪
♪ -And they all say ♪ -Oh, gosh. Run!
♪ "Oh, well, I never ♪
♪ "Was there ever a cat so clever ♪
♪ As magical Mr. Mistoffelees?" ♪
(inhales deeply, grunts)
♪ "Oh, well, I never ♪
♪ "Was there ever a cat so clever ♪
♪ As magical Mr. Mistoffelees?" ♪
VICTORIA: ♪ "Oh, well, I never ♪
♪ "Was there ever a cat so clever ♪
♪ As magical Mr. Mistoffelees?" ♪
♪ And we all say ♪
♪ "Oh, well, I never ♪
♪ "Was there ever a cat so clever ♪
♪ As magical Mr. Mistoffelees?" ♪
♪ "Oh, well, I never ♪
♪ "Was there ever a cat so clever ♪
♪ As magical Mr. Mistoffelees?" ♪
♪ "Oh, well, I never ♪
♪ "Was there ever a cat so clever ♪
♪ As magical Mr. Mistoffelees?" ♪
OLD DEUTERONOMY: ♪ "Oh, well, I never ♪
♪ "Was there ever a cat so clever ♪
♪ As magical Mr. Mistoffelees?" ♪
♪ And we all say ♪
♪ "Oh, well, I never ♪
♪ "Was there ever a cat so clever ♪
♪ As magical Mr. Mistoffelees?" ♪
♪ "Oh, well, I never ♪
♪ "Was there ever a cat so clever ♪
♪ As magical Mr. Mistoffelees?" ♪
♪ "Oh, well, I never ♪
♪ "Was there ever a cat so clever ♪
♪ As magical Mr. Mistoffelees?" ♪
♪ "Oh, well, I never ♪
♪ "Was there ever a cat so clever as magical ♪
♪ -Mr. Mistoffelees?" -So clever ♪
♪ As you ♪
♪ -As me -"Oh, well, I never ♪
♪ "Was there ever a cat so clever ♪
♪ As magical Mr. Mistoffelees?" ♪
♪ Daylight ♪
♪ See the dew on a sunflower ♪
♪ And a rose that is fading ♪
♪ Roses wither away ♪
♪ Like the sunflower ♪
♪ I yearn to turn my face to the dawn ♪
♪ I am waiting ♪
♪ For the day. ♪
♪ Memory ♪
♪ Turn your face to the moonlight ♪
♪ Let your memory lead you ♪
♪ Open up, enter in ♪
♪ If you find there ♪
♪ The meaning of what happiness is ♪
♪ Then a new life ♪
♪ Will begin ♪
♪ Memory ♪
♪ All alone in the moonlight ♪
♪ I can smile at the old days ♪
♪ I was beautiful then ♪
♪ I remember ♪
♪ The time I knew what happiness was ♪
♪ Let the memory ♪
♪ Live again ♪
♪ Burnt-out ends ♪
♪ Of smoky days ♪
♪ The stale, cold smell ♪
♪ Of morning ♪
♪ The streetlamp dies ♪
♪ Another night is over ♪
♪ Another day is dawning ♪
♪ Daylight ♪
♪ I must wait for the sunrise ♪
♪ I must think of a new life ♪
♪ And I mustn't give in ♪
♪ When the dawn comes ♪
♪ Tonight will be a memory, too ♪
♪ And a new day ♪
♪ Will begin ♪
♪ Sunlight through the trees in summer ♪
♪ Endless masquerading ♪
♪ Like a flower ♪
♪ As the dawn is breaking ♪
♪ The memory ♪
♪ Is fading ♪
♪ Touch me ♪
♪ It's so easy to leave me ♪
♪ All alone with the memory ♪
♪ Of my days in the sun ♪
♪ If you touch me ♪
♪ You'll understand what happiness is ♪
(deep, shuddering breath)
♪ Look ♪
♪ A new day ♪
♪ Has begun. ♪
♪ All that you wanted ♪
♪ Was to be wanted ♪
♪ Never to wander London streets ♪
♪ Alone and haunted ♪
OLD DEUTERONOMY: ♪ All your memories of pain ♪
♪ Let them go ♪
♪ And you'll dance with these beautiful ghosts. ♪
♪ Up, up, up ♪
♪ Past the Russell Hotel ♪
♪ Up, up, up, up ♪
♪ To the Heaviside Layer ♪
♪ Up, up, up ♪
♪ Past the Russell Hotel ♪
♪ Up, up, up, up ♪
♪ To the Heaviside Layer ♪
♪ Up, up, up ♪
♪ Past the Russell Hotel ♪
♪ Up, up, up, up ♪
♪ To the Heaviside Layer ♪
♪ Up, up, up ♪
♪ Past the Russell Hotel ♪
♪ Up, up, up, up ♪
♪ To the Heaviside Layer ♪
♪ Up, up, up ♪
♪ Past the Jellicle moon ♪
♪ Up, up, up, up ♪
♪ To the Heaviside Layer ♪
♪ Up, up, up ♪
♪ Past the Jellicle moon ♪
♪ Up, up, up, up ♪
♪ To the Heaviside Layer. ♪
♪ The mystical divinity ♪
♪ Of unashamed ♪
♪ Felinity ♪
♪ Round the cathedral rang ♪
♪ "Vivat" ♪
♪ Life to the ♪
♪ Everlasting ♪
♪ Cat. ♪
♪ You've heard of several kinds of cat ♪
♪ And my opinion now is that ♪
♪ You should need no interpreter ♪
♪ To understand our character ♪
♪ You've learned enough to take the view ♪
♪ That cats are very much like you ♪
♪ You've seen us both at work and games ♪
♪ And learnt about our proper names ♪
♪ Our habits and our habitat ♪
♪ But how would you ad-dress a cat? ♪
♪ So first your memory I'll jog ♪
♪ And say a cat is not ♪
♪ A dog ♪
♪ So first your memory I'll jog ♪
♪ And say a cat is not ♪
♪ A dog ♪
♪ With cats ♪
♪ Some say one rule is true ♪
♪ Don't speak till you ♪
♪ Are spoken to ♪
♪ Myself, I do not hold with that ♪
♪ I say you should ad-dress a cat ♪
♪ But always bear in mind that he ♪
♪ Resents familiarity ♪
♪ You bow ♪
♪ And taking off your hat ♪
♪ Ad-dress him in this form ♪
♪ O Cat ♪
♪ Before a cat will condescend ♪
♪ To treat you as a trusted friend ♪
♪ Some little token of esteem ♪
♪ Is needed, like a dish of cream ♪
♪ Or you might now and then supply ♪
♪ Some caviar or Strasbourg pie ♪
♪ Some potted grouse or salmon paste ♪
♪ He's sure to have his personal taste ♪
♪ And so in time you reach your aim ♪
♪ And call him ♪
♪ By his name ♪
♪ A cat's entitled to expect ♪
♪ These evidences of respect ♪
♪ So this is this ♪
♪ And that is that ♪
♪ And that's how you ad-dress ♪
♪ A cat. ♪
♪ Follow me home ♪
♪ If you dare to ♪
♪ I wouldn't know ♪
♪ Where to lead you ♪
♪ Should I take chances ♪
♪ When no one took chances on me? ♪
♪ So I watch from the dark, wait for my life to start ♪
♪ With no beauty in my memory ♪
♪ All that I wanted ♪
♪ Was to be wanted ♪
♪ Too young to wander London streets ♪
♪ Alone and haunted ♪
♪ Born into nothing ♪
♪ At least you have something ♪
♪ Something to cling to ♪
♪ Visions of dazzling rooms ♪
♪ I'll never get let into ♪
♪ And the memories were lost long ago ♪
♪ But at least you have beautiful ghosts ♪
♪ Perilous night ♪
♪ Their voices calling ♪
♪ A flicker of light ♪
♪ Before the dawning ♪
♪ Out here the wild ones ♪
♪ Are taming the fear within me ♪
♪ Scared to call them my friends ♪
♪ And be broken again ♪
♪ Is this hope just a mystical dream? ♪
♪ All that I wanted ♪
♪ Was to be wanted ♪
♪ Too young to wander London streets ♪
♪ Alone and haunted ♪
♪ Born into nothing ♪
♪ At least you have something ♪
♪ Something to cling to ♪
♪ Visions of dazzling rooms ♪
♪ I'll never get let into ♪
♪ And the memories were lost long ago ♪
♪ But at least you have beautiful ghosts ♪
♪ And so maybe my home ♪
♪ Isn't what I had known ♪
♪ What I thought it would be ♪
♪ But I feel so alive ♪
♪ With these phantoms of night ♪
♪ And I know that this life isn't safe ♪
♪ But it's wild and it's free ♪
♪ All that I wanted ♪
♪ Was to be wanted ♪
♪ I'll never wander London streets ♪
♪ Alone and haunted ♪
♪ Born into nothing ♪
♪ With them I have something ♪
♪ Something to cling to ♪
♪ I never knew I'd love ♪
♪ This world they've let me into ♪
♪ And the memories were lost long ago ♪
♪ So I'll dance with these beautiful ghosts ♪
♪ And the memories were lost long ago ♪
♪ So I'll dance with these beautiful ♪
♪ Ghosts. ♪