Old Gumbie Cat (From "Cats")-Musical Cast Recording/Original Cast

[ti:Old Gumbie Cat (From "Cats")] [ar:The New Musical Cast] [al:The Musical Cast] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Old Gumbie Cat (From "Cats") - Musical Cast Recording (音乐剧)/Original Cast [00:00.12]Written by： T. S. Eliot/Andrew Lloyd Webber [00:00.41]I have a gumbie cat in mind [00:04.80]Her name is jennyanydots [00:08.70] [00:09.40]Her coat is of the tabby kind with tiger stripes and leopard spots [00:18.18] [00:18.78]All day she sits upon the stair or on the step or on the mat [00:26.83] [00:27.45]She sits and sits and sits and sits [00:32.06]And that's what makes a gumbie cat [00:35.13] [00:37.10]That's what makes a gumbie cat [00:40.12] [00:42.88]But [00:43.81]When the day's hustle and bustle is done [00:46.41]Then the gumbie cat's work is but hardly begun [00:49.59]And when all the family's in bed and asleep [00:52.65]She tucks up her skirts to the basement to creep [00:55.73]She is deeply concerned with the ways of the mice [00:58.76]Their behaviour's not good and their manners not nice [01:01.93]So when she has got them lined up on the matting [01:05.16]She teaches them music crocheting and tatting [01:07.91] [01:08.87]I have a gumbie cat in mind [01:13.53]Hr name is jennyanydots [01:17.90]Her equal would be hard to find [01:21.86] [01:22.37]Se likes the warm and sunny spots [01:26.26] [01:27.31]All day she sits beside the hearth or on the bed or on my hat [01:35.13] [01:35.71]She sits and sits and sits and sits [01:40.24]And that's what makes a gumbie cat [01:43.28] [01:45.09]That's what makes a gumbie cat [01:48.25] [01:49.99]But when the day's hustle and bustle is done [01:53.35]Then the gumbie cat's work is but hardly begun [01:56.38]As she finds that the mice will not ever keep quiet [01:59.30]She is sure it is due to irregular diet [02:02.62]And believing that nothing is done without trying [02:05.54]She sets right to work with her baking and frying [02:08.81]She makes them a mouse-cake of bread and dried peas [02:11.80]And a beautiful fry of lean bacon and cheese [02:14.65] [02:46.55]I have a gumbie cat in mind [02:50.34] [02:50.89]Her name is jennyanydots [02:54.74] [02:55.27]The curtain cord she likes to wind and tie it into sailor knots [03:03.74] [03:04.30]She sits upon the windowsill or anything that's smooth and flat [03:12.78] [03:13.37]She sits and sits and sits and sits [03:18.00]And that's what makes a gumbie cat [03:20.92] [03:22.94]That's what makes a gumbie cat [03:26.16] [03:28.86]But [03:29.96]When the day's hustle and bustle is done [03:32.38]Then the gumbie cat's work is but hardly begun [03:35.39]She thinks that the cockroaches need employment [03:38.49]To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment [03:41.40]So she's formed from that lot of disorderly louts [03:44.51]A troop of well disciplined helpful boy scouts [03:47.45]With a purpose in life and a good deed to do [03:50.45]And she's even created a beetles tattoo [03:53.39] [05:02.72]So for old gumbie cats let us give three cheers [05:05.90]On whom well ordered households depend it appears [05:10.30]Three cheers three cheers three cheers [05:12.70] [05:14.16]For she's a jolly good fellow [05:16.71] [05:23.34]Thank you my dears