Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer [Original Version] lyrics

MUNGOJERRIE]

Mungojerrie

[RUMPLETEAZER]

And Rumpleteazer

[MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER]

We're a notorious couple of cats

As knockabout clowns, quick-change comedians

Tight-rope walkers and acrobats

[RUMPLETEAZER]

We have an extensive reputation

[MUNGOJERRIE]

We make our home in Victoria Grove

[MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER]

This is merely our centre of operation

For we are incurably given to rove

[RUMPLETEAZER]

We are very well known in Cornwall Gardens

[MUNGOJERRIE]

In Launceston Place

[RUMPLETEAZER]

And in Kensington Square

[MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER]

We have really a little more reputation

Than a couple of Cats can very well bear

[RUMPLETEAZER]

If the area window is found ajar

[MUNGOJERRIE]

And the basement looks like a field of war

If a tile or two comes loose on the roof

[RUMPLETEAZER]

Which presently fails to be waterproof

[MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER]

If the drawers are pulled out from the bedroom chests

And you can't find one of your winter vests

[RUMPLETEAZER]

If after supper one of the girls

Suddenly misses her Woolworth pearls

[MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER]

The family will say "It's that horrible cat!

[MUNGOJERRIE]

Was it Mungojerrie

[RUMPLETEAZER]

Or Rumpleteazer?"

[MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER]

And most of the time they leave it at that

Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer have a very unusual gift of the gab

[MUNGOJERRIE]

We're highly efficient cat burglars as well

[RUMPLETEAZER]

And remarkably smart at a smash and grab

We make our home in Victoria Grove

[MUNGOJERRIE]

We have no regular occupation

[MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER]

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

[MUNGOJERRIE]

On Argentine joint

[RUMPLETEAZER]

Potatoes and greens

[MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER]

Then the cook will appear from behind the scenes

[MUNGOJERRIE]

And say in a voice that is broken with sorrow

[RUMPLETEAZER]

"I'm afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrow

[MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER]

For the joint has gone from the oven like that!"

The family will say "It's that horrible cat!

[MUNGOJERRIE]

Was it Mungojerrie

[RUMPLETEAZER]

Or Rumpelteazer?"

[MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER]

And most of the time they leave it at that

Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer have a wonderful way of working together

[RUMPLETEAZER]

And some of the time you would say it was luck

[MUNGOJERRIE]

And some of the time you would say it was weather

[MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER]

We'd go through the house like a hurricane

[RUMPLETEAZER]

And no sober person can take his oath

[MUNGOJERRIE]

"Was it Mungojerrie

[RUMPLETEAZER]

Or Rumpelteazer?

[MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER]

Or could you have sworn that it might have been both?"

[MUNGOJERRIE]

And when you hear a dining room smash

[RUMPLETEAZER]

Or up from the pantry there comes a loud crash

[MUNGOJERRIE]

Or down from the library there comes a loud ping

[RUMPLETEAZER]

From a vase which is commonly said to be Ming

[MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER]

The family would say: "Now which was which cat?

It was Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer

And there's nothing at all to be done about that!"

• Artist:Cats (Musical)
• Album:Cats: Original London Cast Recording