Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer-The Theatrelands

[ti:Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer] [ar:The Theatreland Chorus] [al:Cats (Hits from the Musical)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer - The Theatrelands [00:05.77]Written by：Lloyd Webber/Eliot [00:11.55]Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer [00:14.14]We're a notorious couple of cats [00:16.79]As knockabout clowns quick change comedians [00:19.61]Tight rope walkers and acrobats [00:22.34]We have an extensive reputation [00:25.13]We make our home in Victoria Grove [00:27.67]This is merely our centre of operation [00:30.44]For we are incurably given to rove [00:35.05] [00:37.58]We are very well known in Cornwall Gardens [00:40.92]In Launceston place and in Kensington Square [00:43.50]We have really a little more reputation [00:45.70] [00:46.21]Than a couple of cats can very well bear [00:48.81] [00:53.55]If the area window is found ajar [00:56.64]And the basement looks like a field of war [00:59.26]If a tile or two comes loose on the roof [01:02.18]Which presently fails to be waterproof [01:04.82]If the drawers are pulled out from the bedroom chest [01:07.61]And you can't find one of your winter vests [01:10.44]All after supper one of the girls [01:13.18]Suddenly misses her Woolworth pearls [01:16.04]The family will say it's that horrible cat [01:20.79]It was Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer [01:27.49] [01:28.54]And most of the time they leave it at that [01:30.97] [01:42.69]Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer have a very unusual gift of the gab [01:47.71]We are highly efficient cat burglars as well [01:50.54]And remarkably smart at a smash and grab [01:53.33]We make our home in Victoria Grove [01:56.13]We have no regular occupation [01:58.77]We are plausible fellows who like to engage [02:01.47]A friendly policeman in conversation [02:05.22] [02:09.82]When the family assembles for Sunday dinner [02:12.62]With their minds made up that they won't get thinner [02:15.35]On Argentine joint potatoes and greens [02:17.96]And the cook will appear from behind the scenes [02:21.08]And say in a voice that is broken with sorrow [02:23.66]I'm afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrow [02:26.15]For the joint has gone from the oven like that [02:28.98]The family will say it's that horrible cat [02:33.52] [02:34.37]It was Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer [02:40.33] [02:41.63]And most of the time they leave it at that [02:43.90] [02:44.50]Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer have a wonderful way of working together [02:49.69]And some of the time you would say it was luck [02:52.47]And some of the time you would say it was weather [02:55.37]We go through the house like a hurricane [02:58.00]And no sober person could take his oath [03:00.77]Was it Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer [03:03.75]Or could you have sworn that it mightn't be both [03:06.01] [03:06.70]And when you hear a dining room smash [03:08.90] [03:09.42]Or up from the pantry there comes a loud crash [03:12.09]Or down from the library there comes a loud ping [03:14.63]From a vase that was commonly said to be Ming [03:17.43]The family will say now which was which cat [03:21.66] [03:22.56]It was Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer [03:28.47] [03:29.73]And there's nothing at all to be done about that