Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

♪ But they glared at each other And scraped their hind feet
♪ The Fiend of the Fell
♪ Up up up Past the Russell Hotel
♪ As magical Mr Mistoffelees
♪ Or the jewel case is rifled
♪ There are dogs out of every nation The Irish, the Welsh and the Dane
♪ Well, of all things
♪ That's what makes a Gumbie Cat
♪ In his coat of fastidious black
♪ Fearfully blazing
♪ Bark ♪ Bark
♪ As we did in the days When Victoria reigned
♪ For the cat who all the time
♪ I knew how to gag
♪ They did not advance Or exactly retreat
♪ Like undertakers, come to dust ♪
♪ Or down from the library Came a loud ping
♪ Yet he was in his youth Quite the smartest of cats
♪ Look, a new day
♪ And when you reach the scene of crime
♪ A troop of well-disciplined Helpful boy scouts
♪ Jellicle Song and Jellicle dance
♪ To drop in for a drink
♪ Some little token of esteem
♪ But how would you
♪ You should need no interpreter
♪ But I tell you, a cat Needs a name that's particular
♪ But when a crime's discovered Then Macavity's not there
♪ Until you could hear them All over the park
♪ Jellicle Cats have cheerful faces
♪ In the light of the dawn
♪ Though his name was quite famous, He says, in his time
♪ If it happens to be a stormy night
♪ That's when I would appear And I'd saunter to the rear
♪ She tucks up her skirts To the basement to creep
♪ All the guards and all the porters And the stationmaster's daughters
♪ These modern productions Are all very well
♪ For your Pollicle dog Is a dour Yorkshire tyke
♪ But my grandest creation
♪ Before a cat will condescend
♪ And some of the time You would say it was luck
♪ Their minds made up That they won't get thinner
♪ She is smiling alone
♪ Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo Or Coricopat
♪ While Bustopher Jones wears white
♪ Her coat is of the tabby kind
♪ Another day
♪ Cynical cats, rabbinical cats
♪ When these bold heroes Together assembled
♪ When they got to Gallowgate There they did not have to wait
♪ Said to be Ming
♪ For his eyes are sunken in
♪ And they every last one of them Scattered like sheep
♪ Rang vivat
♪ Of the awe-full battle of the Pekes And the Pollicles
♪ Tightrope walkers and acrobats
♪ Every street lamp
♪ Not a sound from the pavement
♪ A man who's not heard Of a Jellicle Cat?
♪ If you set me on a mouse Then I only want a rat
♪ Will begin
Of courstas caustus
♪ Then the family will say "It's that horrible cat!
♪ When Old Deuteronomy Just before dawn
♪ Which takes place at the back Of the neighbouring pub
♪ For he will do as he do do
♪ From the driver and the guards To the bagmen playing cards
♪ Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
♪ And there's no doing Anything about it
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