JELLICLE SONGS FOR JELLICLE CATS

Old Deuteronomy: Todos:

Are you blind when you're born? Because Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicles do and Jellicles can
Rumpleteazer: Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Can you see in the dark? Jellicles do and Jellicles can
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Skimbleshanks:
Can you look at a king? Victoria:
Can you ride on a broomstick to places
Mungojerrie: far distant?
Would you sit on his throne?
Jennyanydots:
Bombalurina: Familiar with candle,
Can you say of your bite that it's worse
than your bark? Rumpleteazer:
with book and with bell?
Old Deuteronomy:
Are you cock of the walk Bombalurina: Were you Whittington's
friend?
Jennyanydots:
when you're walking alone? Skimbleshanks:
The Pied Piper's assistant?
Todos:
Because Jellicles are and Jellicles do Old Deuteuronomy:
Jellicles do and Jellicles would Have you been an alumnus of heaven or
Jellicles would and Jellicles can hell?
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Mungojerrie:
Jennyanydots: Are you mean like a mynx?
When you fall on your head, do you land
on your feet? Rumpleteazer:
Are you lean like a lynx?
Mungojerrie:
Are you tense when you sense there's a Victoria:
storm in the air? Are you keen to be seen when you're
smelling a rat?
Victoria:
Can you find your way blind when you're Bombalurina:
lost in the street? Were you there when the pharaos
comissioned the the sphinx?
Old Deuteuronomy:
Do you know how to go to the Heaviside
Layer?
Todos: The mystical divinity of unashamed
If you were and you are, you're a jellicle felinity
cat! Round the cathedral rang "Vivat!"
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats Life to the everlasting cat!
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats Feline, fearless, faithful and true
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats To others who do what

We can dive through the air like a flying Jellicles do and Jellicles can
trapeze Jellicles can and Jellicles do
We can turn double somersaults, Jellicle cats sing Jellicle chants
bounce on a tire Jellicles old and Jellicles new
We can run up the wall, we can swing Jellicle song and Jellicle dance
through the trees
We can balance on bars, we can walk on Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
a wire Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicles can and Jellicles do Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicles can and Jellicles do Practical cats, dramatical cats
Jellicles can and Jellicles do Pragmatical cats, fanatical cats
Oratorical cats, delphioracle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats Skeptical cats, dispeptical cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats Romantical cats, pedantical cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats Critical cats, parasitical cats
Allegorical cats, metaphorical cats
Can you sing at the same time in more Statistical cats and mystical cats
than one key Political cats, hypocritical cats
Duets by Rossini and waltzes by Strauss Clerical cats, hysterical cats
And can you (as cats do) begin with a C? Cynical cats, rabbinical cats
That always triumphantly brings down
the house Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle bells that Jellicles ring
Jellicle cats are queen of the nights Jellicle sharps and Jellicle flats
Singing at astronomical heights Jellicle songs that Jellicles sing
Handling pieces from the Messiah
Hallelujah, angelical choir Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
INVITATION TO THE JELLICLE BALL

Mr. Mistoffeeles:
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

Munkustrap:
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

That's 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 different jellicle life

Because waiting up there is the heaviside layer

Full of wonders one jellicle only will see
Jellicles ask because jellicles dare
Who will it be?

Todos:
Who will it be?
OLD GUMBIE CAT
Munkustrap:
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 beneath 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!

Bombalurina/Démeter/Victoria:
But . . .
When the day's hustle and bustle is done
Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun
She thinks that the cockroaches

Jennyanydots:
Just need employment

Bombalurina, Demeter y Victoria:

To prevent them from

Jennyanydots:
Idle and want to destroyment

Bombalurina/Démeter/Victoria:
So she's formed from that lot of disorderly louts
A troop of well disciplined helpful boy scouts

Jennyanydots:
With a purpose in life and a good deed to do

Bombalurina, Demeter y Victoria:

And she's even created a Beetles Tattoo!

Todos:
For she's a jolly good fellow!

Jennyanydots:
Thank you my dears!
MUNGOJERRIE AND RUMPLETEAZER

Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer

We're a notorious couple of cats
As knockabout clowns, quick-change comedians
Tight-rope walkers and acrobats
We have an extensive reputation
We make our home in Victoria Grove
This is merely our centre of operation
For we are incurably given to rove

When the family assembles for Sunday dinner

With their minds made up that they won't get thinner
On Argentine joint, potatoes and greens
And the cook will 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 has 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 mightn't be 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
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!

 Ambos
 Mungojerrie
 Rumpleteazer
SKIMBLESHANKS THE RAILWAY TRACK

Old Deuteuronomy/Victoria: Skimbleshanks:

Skimbleshanks But I was just behind him and was ready
the Railway Cat to remind him
For Skimble won't let anything go wrong
Todos:
the Cat of the Railway Train… Todos:
There's a whisper down the line at When they crept into their cosy berth
eleven thirty-nine and pulled up the counterpane
When the Night Mail's ready to depart (Uh uh uh uh)They all could reflect that
So nothing went wrong on the Northern it was very nice
Mail (uh uh uh uh) To know that they
When Skimbleshanks was aboard wouldn't be bothered by mice
(Uh uh uh uh) They can leave all that to
Skimbleshanks: the Railway Cat
It was very pleasant when they'd found The Cat of the Railway Train…
their little den
With their name written up on the door Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat
(Whoo Whoo) The Cat of the Railway Train
And the berth was very neat with a
newly folded sheet Skimbleshanks:
And not a speck of dust upon the floor In the watches of the night I was always
fresh and bright
There was every sort of light you could Every now and then I'd have a cup of tea
make it dark or bright With perhaps a drop of scotch while I
And a button you could turn to make a was keeping on the watch
breeze (Whoo Whoo) Only stopping here and there to catch a
And a funny little basin you're supposed flea
to wash your face in
And a crank to shut the window should They were fast asleep at Crewe and so
you sneeze they never knew
That I was walking up and down the
Rumpleteazer: station
Achu! They were sleeping all the while I was
busy at Carlisle
Skimbleshanks: Where I met the station master with
Then the guard looked in politely elation!
and would ask you very brightly,
"Do you like your morning tea They might see me at Dumfries if I
summoned the police
Todos: If there was anything they ought to
Weak or strong? know about…
Todos:
When they got to Gallowgate
there they did not have to wait
For Skimbleshanks would help them to get out!

And he gives a wave of his long brown tail

Which says "I'll see you again!
You'll meet without fail on the Midnight Mail
The Cat of the Railway Train!"

The Cat of the Railway Train!"

MACAVITY THE MISTERY CAT

Demeter:
Macavity's a mystery cat, he's called the hidden paw
For he's a master criminal who can defy the law
He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair
And when you 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
And when you reach the scene of crime, Macavity's not there!
You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air
But I tell you once and once again, "Macavity's not there!"

Bombalurina:
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 in 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 by-street, you may see him in the square
But when a crime's discovered then Macavity's not there!

Bombaurina y Demeter:
And they say that all the cats whose wicked deeds are widely known
Demeter:
I might mention Mungojerrie,
Bombalurina:
I might mention Griddlebone
Bombalurina y Demeter:
Are nothing more than agents for the cat who all the time
Just controls the operations, the Napoleon of crime!
Todas (Mujeres):
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 by-street, you may see him in the square
But when a crime's discovered then Macavity…
Macavity… Macavity… Macavity!
When a crime's discovered then
Bombalurina:
Macavity's not there!
 BUSTOPHER JONES
Todos:
Jennyanydots: In the whole of St. James's the
Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones smartest of names
Is the name of this Brummell of cats
Bombalurina: And we're all of us proud to be
In fact, he's remarkably fat nodded or bowed to
By Bustopher Jones in white spats
Victoria:
He doesn't haunt pubs
Bustopher Jones:
Jennyanydots: My visits are occasional to The
He has eight or nine clubs Senior Educational
Jennyanydots, Bombalurina y Victoria: And it is the against the rules
For he's the St. James's Street cat! For any one cat to belong both to
that
Jennyanydots: And The Joint Superior Schools
He's the cat we all greet as he walks For a similar reason, when game is
down the street in season
In his coat of fastidious black I'm found, not at Fox's, but Blimp's;
I am frequently seen at the gay
Bombalurina: Stage and Screen
No common-place mousers have such Which is famous for winkles and
well cut trousers shrimps
In the season of venison I give my
Victoria: ben'son
Or such an impeccable back To the Pothunter's succulent bones;
And just before noon's not a
Jennyanydots: moment too soon
In the whole of St. James's the smartest To drop in for a drink at the Drones
of names When I'm seen in a hurry there's
Is the name of this Brummell of cats probably curry
At The Siamese or at The Glutton
Jennyanydots, Bombalurina y Victoria: If I look full of gloom then I've
And we're all of us proud to be nodded lunched at The Tomb
or bowed to On cabbage, rice pudding, and
By Bustopher Jones in white spats mutton
Todos:
Todos:
In the whole of St. James's the
It must and it shall be spring in Pall Mall
smartest of names
While Bustopher Jones wears white
Is the name of this Brummell of cats
Bustopher Jones wears white
And we're all of us proud to be
Bustopher Jones wears white spats
nodded or bowed to
By Bustopher Jones in white
Bustopher Jones in white
Bustopher Jones in white spats

Jennyanydots:
So much in this way passes
Bustopher's day
At one club or another he's found
It can be no surprise that under our
eyes
He has grown unmistakably round
He's a twenty-five pounder

Bustopher Jones:
Or I am a bounder

Jennyanydots:
And he's putting on weight every day

Bustopher Jones:
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

Jennyanydots:
That's the word from the stoutest of
cats
THE AD-DRESSING OF CATS
With cats, some say one rule is true
Old Deuteronomy: Don't speak 'til you are spoken to
You've heard of several kinds of cat Myself I do not hold with that
And my opinion now is that I say, you should ad-dress a cat
You should need no interpreter to But always bear in mind that he
understand our character resents familiarity
You've learned enough to take the You bow, and taking off your hat,
view ad-dress him in this form:
That cats are very much like you "O Cat!"
You've seen us both at work and Before a cat will condescend
games To treat you as a trusted friend
And learnt about our proper names Some little token of esteem is
Our habits and our hábitat needed, like a dish of cream
But how would you ad-dress a cat? And you might now and then supply
So first, your memory I'll jog Some caviar or Strasbourg pie
And say: A cat is not a dog Some potted grouse or salmon
Todos: paste
So first, your memory I'll jog He's sure to have his personal taste
And say: A cat is not a dog And so in time you reach your aim
And call him by his name
Old Deuteronomy:
Now dogs pretend they like to fight
They often bark nor seldom bite Todos:
But yet a dog is on the whole A cat's entitled to expect these
What you would call a simple soul evidences of respect
The usual dog about the town So this is this, and that is that
Is much inclined to play the clown And that's how you ad-dress a cat
And far from showing too much pride
Is frequently undignified
He's such an easy-going lout
He'll answer any hail or shout!

The usual dog about the town

Is inclined to play the clown
Again I must remind you that:
A dog's a dog, a cat's a cat