Cats Soundtrack Mungojerrie And Rumpleteazer Lyrics

Mungojerrie And Rumpleteazer Lyrics

SOLO (spoken): 

 Macavity!

 

 MUNGOJERRIE:

 Mungojerrie

 

 RUMPLETEAZER:

 And Rumpleteazer 

 

 BOTH:

 We're a notorious couple of cats

 As knockabout clowns, quick change comedians

 Tight-rope walkers and acrobats

 

 RUMPLETEAZER:

 We have an extensive reputation

 

 MUNGOJERRIE:

 We make our home in Victoria Grove

 

 BOTH:

 That is merely our center of operation

 For we are incurably given to rove

 

 RUMPLETEAZER:

 We are very well known in Cornwall Gardens

 

 MUNGOJERRIE:

 In Launceston Place

 

 RUMPLETEAZER:

 And in Kensington Square

 

 BOTH:

 We have really a little more reputation

 Than a couple of cats can very well bear

 

 RUMPLETEAZER:

 If the area window is found ajar

 

 MUNGOJERRIE:

 Or the basement looks like a field of war

 If a tile or two comes loose on the roof

 

 RUMPLETEAZER:

 Which presently fails to be waterproof

 

 BOTH:

 If the drawers are pulled out from bedroom chests

 And you can't find one of your winter vests

 

 RUMPLETEAZER:

 If after supper one of the girls

 Suddenly misses her Woolworth pearls

 

 BOTH:

 Then the family will say, "It's that horrible cat!

 

 MUNGOJERRIE:

 "It was Mungojerrie 

 

 RUMPLETEAZER:

 "Or Rumpleteazer!"

 

 BOTH:

 And most of the time they leave it at that

 

 BOTH:

 Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer have a very unusual gift of the gab

 

 MUNGOJERRIE:

 We are highly efficient cat burglars as well

 

 RUMPLETEAZER:

 And remarkably smart at the smash and grab

 We make our home in Victoria Grove

 

 MUNGOJERRIE:

 We have no regular occupation

 

 BOTH:

 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

 

 MUNGOJERRIE:

 On Argentine joint, 

 

 RUMPLETEAZER:

 Potatoes and greens

 

 BOTH:

 Then the cook will appear from behind the scenes

 

 MUNGOJERRIE:

 And say in a voice that is broken with sorrow

 

 RUMPLETEAZER:

 "I'm afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrow

 For the joint has gone from the oven like that!"

 

 BOTH:

 Then the family will say, "It's that horrible cat!

 

 MUNGOJERRIE:

 "It was Mungojerrie 

 

 RUMPLETEAZER:

 "Or Rumpleteazer!"

 

 BOTH:

 And most of the time they leave it at that

 

 BOTH:

 Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer have a wonderful way

 Of working together

 

 RUMPLETEAZER:

 And some of the time you would say it was luck

 

 MUNGOJERRIE:

 And some of the time you would say it was weather

 

 BOTH:

 We go through the house like a hurricane

 And no sober person could take his oath

 

 MUNGOJERRIE:

 Was it Mungojerrie?

 

 RUMPLETEAZER:

 Or Rumpleteazer?

 

 BOTH:

 Or could you have sworn that it mightn't be both?

 

 MUNGOJERRIE:

 And when you hear a dining room smash

 

 RUMPLETEAZER:

 Or up from the pantry there comes a loud crash

 

 MUNGOJERRIE:

 Or down from the library there comes a loud ping

 

 RUMPLETEAZER:

 From a vase that was commonly said to be Ming

 

 BOTH:

 Then the family will say: "Now which was which cat?

 It was Mungojerrie *AND* Rumpleteazer!"

 

 And there's nothing at all to be done about that!