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Mungojerrie
and
Rumpleteazer
Mungojerrie
and Rumpleteazer
we’re a notorious couple of cats
As knockabout clowns, quick-change comedians
Tight-rope walkers and acrobats
We have an extensive reputation
We make our home in Victoria Grove
This is merely our center of operation
For we are incurably given to rove
We are very well known in Cornwall Gardens
In Launceston Place and in Kensington Square
We have really a little more reputation
Than a couple of cats can very well bear
If
the area window is found ajar
And the basement lookes like a field of war
If a tile or two come loose on the roof
Which presently fails to be waterproof
If the drawers were pulled out from bedroom chests
And you can't find one of your winter vests
If after supper one of the girls
Suddenly misses her Woolworth pearls
Then
the family will say: "It's that horrible cat!
It was Mungojerrie or Rumpleteazer!"
And most of the time, they leave it at that
Mungojerrie
and Rumpleteazer
have a very unusual gift of the gab
We are highly efficient cat burgulars as well
And remarkably smart at a smash and grab
We make our home in Victoria Grove
We have no regular occupation
We are plausible fellows who like to engage
A friendly policeman in conversation
When
the family assembles for Sunday dinner
With their minds made up that they won't get thinner
On Argentine joint, potatoes and greens
Then 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!
It was 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 go through the house like a hurricane
And no sober person can take his oath
Was it Mungojerrie or Rumpleteazer?
Or could you have sworn that it mightn't be both?
And when you hear a dining room smash
Or up from the pantry there comes a loud crash
Or down from the library there comes 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!
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ACT 1
When Cats are Maddened
by the Midnight Dance
Overture
Prologue: Jellicle Songs
for Jellicle Cats
The Naming of Cats
Invitation to the Jellicle
Ball
The Old Gumbie Cat
The Rum Tum Tugger
Grizabella: the Glamour Cat
Bustopher Jones:
the Cat About Town
Mungojerrie and
Rumpleteazer
Old Deuteronomy
The Awful Battle of the
Pekes and the Pollicles
The Jellicle Ball
Memory (1)
ACT 2
Why Will the Summer
Day Delay - When Will
Time Flow Away
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