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Old Deuteronomy?
I believe it is Old Deuteronomy.
Well, of all things can it be really?
Yes! No! Ho! Hi! Oh, my eye!
My mind may be wandering, but I confess
I believe it is Old Deuteronomy

Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time
He's a cat who has lived many lives in succession
He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme
A long while before Queen Victoria's accession
Old Deuteronomy's buried nine wives
And more I am tempted to say ninety-nine
And his numerous progeny prospers and thrieves
And the village is proud of him in his decline
At the sight of that placid and bland physiognomy
When he sits in the sun on the vicarage wall
The oldest inhabitant croaks

Well, of all things, can it be really?
Yes! No! Ho! Hi! Oh, my eye!
My mind may be wandering, but I confess
I believe it is Old Deuteronomy.  

Old Deuteronomy sits in the streets
He sits on high street on market day
The bullocks may bellow, the sheep they may bleet
But the dogs and the herdsmen will turn them away
The cars and the lorries run over the kerb
And the villagers put up a note "Road Closed"
so that nothing untoward may chance to disturb
Deuteronomy's rest when he feels so disposed.
The digestive repose of that feline's gastronomy
Must never be broken, whatever befall
And the oldest inhabitant croaks

Well, of all things, can it be really?
Yes! No! Ho! Hi! Oh, my eye!
My mind may be wandering, but I confess
I believe it is Old Deuteronomy.

Well, of all things, can it be really?
Yes! No! Ho! Hi! Oh, my eye!
My mind may be wandering, but I confess
I believe it is Old Deuteronomy.

Well, of all things, can it be really?
Yes! No! Ho! Hi! Oh, my eye!
My legs may be tottery, I must go slow
And be careful of Old Deuteronomy

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