Cats Soundtrack Macavity Lyrics

Macavity Lyrics

SOLO (spoken): 

 Macavity!

 

 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

 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

 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!

 

 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

 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!

 

 BOMBALURINA:

 He's outwardly respectable, I know he cheats at cards

 And his footprints are not found in any files of Scotland Yard's

 

 DEMETER:

 And when the larder's looted 

 

 BOMBALURINA:

 Or the jewel case is rifled

 

 DEMETER:

 Or when the milk is missing 

 

 BOMBALURINA:

 Or another peke's been stifled

 

 DEMETER:

 Or the greenhouse glass is broken 

 

 BOMBALURINA:

 And the trellis past repair

 

 BOTH:

 There's the wonder of the thing: MACAVITY'S NOT THERE!

 

 And when the crime has been disclosed the Secret Service say

 "It must have been Macavity!"-- but he's a mile away

 You'll be sure to find him resting, or a-licking of his thumbs,

 Or engaged in doing complicated long division sums!

 

 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

 What ever 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, I might mention Griddlebone)

 Are nothing more than agents for the cat who all the time

 Just controls their operations: "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 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 MACAVITY'S NOT THERE!

 

 (DANCE -- MACAVITY)

 

 CHORUS (spoken):

 Macavity's not there!

 

 SILLABUB:

 We have to find Old Deuteronomy