Musicals - Cats: Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer Lyrics
[Verse 1]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 centre of operation for we are incurably given to rove[Verse 2]If the area window was found ajarAnd the basement looked like a field of warIf a tile or two came loose on the roofWhich presently ceased 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 pearls[Pre-Chorus]Then the family would say, "It's that horrible cat!It was Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer!"And most of the time they left it at that[Chorus]Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer have an unusual gift of the gabThey are highly efficient cat burglars as well and remarkably smart at a smash and grabWe make their home in Victoria Grove, we have no regular occupationWe are plausible fellows who liked to engage a friendly policeman in conversation[Verse 3]When the family assembled for Sunday dinnerTheir minds made up that they wouldn'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!"[Pre-Chorus]Then the family would say, "It's that horrible cat!It was Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer!"And most of the time they left it at that[Chorus]Mungojerrie 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?[Verse 4]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 Rumpelteazer and there's nothing at all to be done about that"
