Musicals - Cats: Old Deuteronomy Lyrics
[Chorus]CAST:Well of all things can it be reallyYes, no, ho, hi, oh my eye!My mind may be wondering but I confessI believe it is Old Deuteronomy[Verse 1]MUNKUSTRAP:Old Deuteronomy's lived a long timeHe's a cat who has lived many lives in successionHe was famous in Proverb and famous in rhymeA long while before Queen Victoria's accession[Verse 2]THE RUM TUM TUGGER:Old Deuteronomy's buried nine wivesAnd more I am tempted to say-ninety nineAnd his numerous progeny prospers and thrivesAnd the villiage is pround of him in his decline[Verse 3]MUNKUSTRAP:At the sight of that placid and grand phsiognomyWhen he sits in the sun on the vicarage wallThe oldest habitant croaks[Chorus]MUNKUSTRAP AND THE RUM TUM TUGGER:Well of all things can it be reallyYes, no, ho, hi, oh my eye!My mind may be wondering but I confessI believe it is Old Deuteronomy[Verse 4]RUM TUM TUGGEROld Deuteronomy sits in the streetHe sits on the high street on market dayThe bullocks may bellow the sheep may bleetBut the dogs and the herdsman will turn them away[Verse 5]MUNKUSTRAPThe cars and the lorries run over the curbAnd the villagers put up a notice "road closed"So that nothing untoward may chance to disturbDeuteronomy's rest when he feels so disposedThe digestive repose of that feline's gastronomyMust never be broken, whatever befall:[Chorus]And the Oldest Inhabitant croaks: "Well, of all . . .Things. . . Can it be . . . really! . . . yes!. . . no!. . .Ho! hi!Oh, my eye!My mind may be wondering but I confessI believe it is Old DeuteronomyCAST:Well of all things can it be reallyYes, no, ho, hi, oh my eye!My mind may be wondering but I confessWell of all things can it be reallyYes, no, ho, hi, oh my eye!My mind may be wondering but I confessI believe it is Old DeuteronomyCAST:Well of all things can it be reallyYes, no, ho, hi, oh my eye![Verse 6]OLD DEUTERONOMY:My legs may be tottery I must go slowAnd be careful of Old Deuteronomy
