"# Are you blind when you're born?" "# Can you see in the dark?" "# Can you look at a king?" "# 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?" "# Because Jellicles are And Jellicles do" "# Jellicles do and Jellicles would" "# Jellicles would and Jellicles can" "# Jellicles can and Jellicles do" "# 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" "# Were you Whittington's friend?" "# The Pied Piper's assistant?" "# Have you been an alumnus" "# 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" "# Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats" "# Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats" "# Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats" "# We can dive through the air" "# Like a flying trapeze" "# We can turn double somersaults Bounce on a tyre" "# 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" "# Jellicles can and Jellicles do" "# Jellicles can and Jellicles do" "# Jellicles can and Jellicles do" "# Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats" "# Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats" "# Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats" "# Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats" "# Can you sing at the same time In more than one key" "# Duets by Rossini And waltzes by Strauss?" "# And can you, as cats do Begin with a "c"?" "# 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" "# 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" "# Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats" "# Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats" "# Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats" "# Practical cats, dramatical cats" "# Pragmatical cats, fanatical cats" "# Oratorical cats, Delphic-Oracle cats" "# Sceptical cats, dyspeptical cats" "# Romantical cats, pedantical cats" "# Critical and parasitical cats" "# Allegorical cats, metaphorical cats" "# Statistical cats and mystical cats" "# Political cats, hypocritical cats" "# Clerical cats, hysterical cats" "# Cynical cats, rabbinical cats" "# Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats" "# Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats" "# Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats" "# Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats #" "# There's a man over there With a look of surprise" "# As much as to say Well, now, how about that?" "# Do I actually see With my own very eyes" "# A man who's not heard Of a Jellicle Cat?" "# What's a Jellicle Cat?" "# What's a Jellicle Cat?" "# What's a Jellicle Cat?" "# The naming of cats Is a difficult matter" "# It isn't just one Of your holiday games" "# You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter" "# When I tell you a cat Must have three different names" "# First of all there's the name That the family use daily" "# Such as Peter, Augustus Alonzo or James" "# Such as Victor or Jonathan George or Bill Bailey" "# All of them Sensible, everyday names" "# There are fancier names If you think they sound sweeter" "# Some for the gentlemen Some for the dames" "# Such as Plato, Admetus Electra, Demeter" "# But all of them sensible Everyday names" "# But I tell you, a cat Needs a name that's particular" "# A name that's peculiar And more dignified" "# Else how can he keep up His tail perpendicular" "# Or spread out his whiskers Or cherish his pride?" "# Of names of this kind I can give you a quorum" "# Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo Or Coricopat" "# Such as Bombalurina Or else, Jellylorum" "# Names that never belong To more than one cat" "# But above and beyond There's still one name left over" "# And that is the name That you never will guess" "# The name that no human research Can discover" "# But the cat himself knows And will never confess" "# When you notice a cat In profound meditation" "# The reason, I tell you, Is always the same" "# His mind is engaged In a rapt contemplation" "# Of the thought, of the thought" "# Of the thought of his name" "# His ineffable" "# Effable" "# Effanineffable" "# Deep and inscrutable" "# Singular" "# Name..." "Name..." "Name..." "Name... #" "# 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?" "# 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 beneath the stair" "# Or on the steps 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" "# She tucks up her skirts To the basement to creep" "# She is deeply concerned With the ways of the mice" "# Their behaviour's not good And their manners not nice" "# So when she has got them Lined up on the matting" "# She teaches them # Music, crocheting and tatting" "# I have a Gumbie Cat in mind" "# Her name is Jennyanydots" "# The curtain cord she likes to wind" "# And tie it into sailor knots" "# She sits upon the window-sill" "# 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" "# She thinks that the cockroaches Just need employment" "# To prevent them from Idle and wanton destroyment" "# So she's 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 she's even created" "# A beetles tattoo!" "#" "( # Rule Britannia )" "Squad salute!" "# For she's A jolly good fellow...#" "Thank you, my dears" "Miaow" "Miaow" "# The Rum Tum Tugger is 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" "# The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious cat" "# And there isn't any call For me to shout it" "# For he will do as he do do" "# And there's no doing anything About 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" "# And as soon as I get home Then I'd like to get about" "# I like to lie in a bureau drawer" "# But I make such a fuss If I can't get out" "# 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 about it" "# The Rum Tum Tugger Is a curious beast" "# My disobliging ways Are a matter of habit" "# Now if you offer me fish Then I always want a feast" "# And if there isn't any fish Then I won't eat rabbit" "# If you offer me cream Then I sniff and sneer" "# For I only like What I find for myself..." "No" "# So you catch me in it up to my ears And put it on the larder shelf" "# The Rum Tum Tugger Is artful and knowing" "# The Rum Tum Tugger Doesn't care for a cuddle" "# So I'll on up into your sewing" "# Cos 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... #" "(Miaowing)" "# About... #" "(Miaowing)" "# About... #" "(Screaming)" "# About it #" "# Remark the cat" "# Who hesitates towards you" "# In the light of the dawn" "# 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" "# 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 would ever suppose" "# That that" "# Was Grizabella" "# The Glamour Cat?" "# Grizabella the Glamour Cat" "# Grizabella the Glamour Cat" "# Who would have ever supposed" "# That that" "# Was Grizabella" "# The Glamour Cat?" "#" "# Bustopher Jones Is not skin and bones" "# In fact, he's remarkably fat" "# He doesn't haunt pubs He has eight or nine clubs" "# For he's the St James's Street Cat" "# He's the cat we all greet As he walks down the street" "# In his 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" "# 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 ben'son" "# To the Pothunter's succulent bones" "# And just before noon's Not a moment too soon" "# To drop in for a drink" "# At the Drones" "# 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 he's found" "# It can be no surprise That under our eyes" "# He has grown unmistakably round" "# He's a twenty-five pounder # Or I am a bounder" "# And he's putting on weight Every day" "# But I'm so well-preserved Because I've observed" "# All me life a routine, and I'd say" "# I am still in me prime I shall last out me time" "# That's the word From this 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 spats #" "Toodlepip!" "(Thunder rolls)" "(Police siren )" "Macavity!" "(Car brakes screech)" "(Car accelerates away )" " (Woman laughs )" " Shh!" "(Woman laughs )" "# Mungojerrie # And Rumpleteazer" "# 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 centre Of operation" "# For we are incurably given to rove" "# When the family assembles For Sunday dinner" "# Their minds made up That they won't get thinner" "# On Argentine joint # Potatoes and greens" "# And 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" "# "The joint has gone From the oven like that!"" "# Then the family will say "It's that horrible cat!" "# "Was it Mungojerrie # Or Rumpleteazer!"" "# And most of the time They leave it at that" "# Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer" "# 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'd go through the house Like a hurricane" "# And no sober person Could take his oath" "# Was it Mungojerrie # Or Rumpleteazer?" "# 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 Came a loud ping" "# From a vase which was commonly" "# Said to be Ming" "# 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" "Old Deuteronomy?" "# 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" "# Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time" "# He's a cat who has lived Many lives in succession" "# He was famous in proverb And famous in rhyme" "# A long while before Queen Victoria's accession" "# Old Deuteronomy's buried nine wives" "# And more" " I am tempted To say ninety-nine" "# And his numerous progeny Prospers and thrives" "# And the village is proud of him In his decline" "# At the sight of that placid And bland physiognomy" "# When he sits in the sun" "# On the vicarage wall" "# The 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 And 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 that the Jellicle Leader is here" "# Jellicle Cats can all rejoice" "# Of the awe-full battle of the Pekes And the Pollicles" "# Together with some account" "# Of the participation Of the Pugs and the Poms" "# And the intervention" "# Of the Great" "# Rumpus Cat" "# The Pekes and the Pollicles Everyone knows" "# Are proud and implacable Passionate foes" "# It is always the same Wherever one goes" "# And the Pugs and the Poms Are the most people say" "# That they do not like fighting Yet once in a way" "# They now and again Join into the fray, and they" "# Bark # Bark" "# Bark # Bark" "# Until you can hear them All over the park" "# Now, on the occasion Of which I shall speak" "# Almost nothing had happened For nearly a week" "# (And that's a long time For a Pol or a Peke )" "# The big Police Dog Was away from his beat" "# I don't know the reason But most people think" "# He slipped into the Wellington Arms for a drink" "# And no one at all Was about on the street" "# When a Peke and a Pollicle Happened to meet" "# They did not advance Or exactly retreat" "# But they glared at each other And scraped their hind feet" "# And started to # Bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark" "# Until you could hear them All over the park" "# And they'd # Bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark" "# Until you could hear them All over the park" "# Now, the Peke, although people May say what they please" "# Is no British dog But a heathen Chinese" "# And so all the Pekes When they heard the uproar" "# Some came to the window Some came to the door" "# There were surely a dozen More likely a score" "# And together they started To grumble and wheeze" "# In their huffery-snuffery Heathen Chinese" "# But a terrible din Is what Pollicles like" "# For your Pollicle dog Is a dour Yorkshire tyke" "# There are dogs out of every nation The Irish, the Welsh and the Dane" "# The Russian, Dutch and Dalmatian And even from China and Spain" "# From the Poodle, the Pom The Alsatian" "# And the Mastiff Who walks on a chain" "# And to those that are frisky And frolicle" "# That my meaning be perfectly plain" "# That my name is Little Tom Pollicle And you better not do it again" "# And his braw Scottish cousins Are snappers and biters" "# And every dog-jack of them Notable fighters" "# And so they stepped out With their pipers in order" "# Playin' When the Blue Bonnets Come Over the Border" "# Then the Pugs and the Poms Held no longer aloof" "# But some from the balcony Some from the roof" "# Joined into the din with a # Bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark" "# Until you could hear them All over the park" "# Huffery-snuffery, huffery-snuffery" "# Huffery-snuffery, huffery-snuff" "# Until you could hear them All over the park #" "(Whining and howling)" "Now!" "# When these bold heroes Together assembled" "# The traffic all stopped And the Underground trembled" "# And some of the neighbours Were so much afraid" "# That they started to ring up The fire brigade" "# When suddenly up From a small basement flat" "# Why, who should stalk out" "# But the Great Rumpus Cat?" "# His eyes were like fireballs" "# Fearfully blazing" "# He gave a great yawn" "# And his jaws were amazing" "# And when he looked out Through the bars of the area" "# You never saw anything" "# Fiercer" "# Or hairier" "# And what with the glare Of his eyes and his yawning" "# The Pekes and the Pollicles Quickly took warning" "# He looked to the sky And he gave a great leap" "# And they every last one of them Scattered like sheep" "# And when the Police Dog Returned to his beat" "# There wasn't a single one Left on the street" "( # When the Blue Bonnets Come Over the Border)" "# All hail and all bow to" "# The Great Rumpus Cat #" "# Jellicle Cats and dogs all must" "# Pollicle Dogs and cats all must" "# Like undertakers, come to dust #" "(Thunder rolls)" "Macavity!" "# 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 we caterwaul" "# Jellicle Cats have cheerful faces" "# Jellicle Cats Have bright black eyes" "# We like to practise 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" "# We're quiet enough In the morning hours" "# We're quiet enough In the afternoon" "# Reserving our terpsichorean powers" "# To dance by the light Of the Jellicle Moon" "# Jellicle Cats are black And white" "# Jellicle Cats, As we said, are small" "# If it happens to be a stormy night" "# We will practise 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... #"