Andrew Lloyd Webber - Mungojerrie And Rumpleteazer Lyrics
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer we're a notorious couple of catsAs knockabout clowns, quick - change comediansTight - rope walkers and acrobatsWe have an extensive reputation, we make our home in Victoria GroveThis is merely our center of operation for we are incurably given to roveIf the area window was found ajar and the basement looked like a field of warIf a tile or two came loose on the roof which presently failed to be waterproofIf the drawers were pulled out from the bedroom chestsAnd you couldn't find one of your winter vestsOr after supper one of the girls suddenly missed her Woolworth pearlsThen the family would say, "It's that horrible cat!It was Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer!"And most of the time they left it at thatMungojerrie and Rumpelteazer have an unusual gift of the gabWe are highly efficient cat burglars as wellAnd remarkably smart at a smash and grabWe make our home in Victoria Grove, we have no regular occupationWe are plausible fellows who liked to engage a friendly policeman in conversationWhen the family assembled for Sunday dinnerTheir minds made up that they won't get thinner onArgentine joint, potatoes and greensThen the cook would appear from behind the scenesAnd say in a voice that was broken with sorrow"I'm afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrowThe joint has gone from the oven like that!"Then the family would say, "It's that horrible cat!Was it Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer!"And most of the time they left it at thatMungojerrie and Rumpelteazer have a wonderful way of working togetherAnd some of the time you would say it was luck and some of the time you would say it was weatherWe go through the house like a hurricane and no sober person could take his oathWas it Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer? Or could you have sworn that it might have been both?When you heard a dining room smash or up from the pantry there came a loud crashOr down from the library came a loud pingFrom a vase which was commonly said to be MingThen the family would say: "Now which was which cat?It was Mungojerrie and RumpelteazerAnd there's nothing at all to be done about that"
