The Old Gumbie Cat-Musical Mania

[ti:The Old Gumbie Cat] [ar:Musical Mania] [al:Music From The Musical: Cats] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.60]I have a Gumbie Cat in mind [00:05.22]Her name is Jennyanydots [00:09.77]Her coat is of the tabby kind with [00:14.40]Tiger stripes and leopard spots [00:18.96]All day she sits beneath the stairs [00:23.30]Or on the steps or on the mat [00:27.72]She sits and sits and sits and that's [00:32.50]What makes a gumbie cat [00:35.68] [00:37.36]That's what makes a Gumbie Cat [00:40.90] [00:43.23]But [00:44.11]When the day's hustle and bustle is done [00:46.72]Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun [00:49.61] [00:50.15]And when all the family's in bed and asleep [00:53.15]She tucks up her skirts to the basement to creep [00:56.09]She is deeply concerned [00:57.46]With the ways of the mice: [00:58.97]Their behavior's not good [01:00.65]And their manners not nice [01:02.37]So when she has got them [01:03.48]Lined up on the matting [01:05.43]She teaches them music [01:06.95]Crocheting and tatting [01:08.36] [01:09.14]I have a Gumbie Cat in mind [01:13.91]Her name is Jennyanydots [01:18.23]Her equal would be hard to find [01:22.80]Se likes the warm and sunny spots [01:27.47]All day she sits beside the hearth or [01:31.74]On the bed or on my hat [01:36.03]She sits and sits and sits and sits [01:40.60]And that's what makes a Gumbie Cat [01:43.90] [01:45.49]That's what makes a Gumbie Cat [01:48.94] [01:50.25]But [01:51.08]When the day's hustle and bustle is done [01:53.64]Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun [01:56.62]As she finds that the mice will [01:58.30]Not ever keep quiet [01:59.59]She is sure it is due to irregular diet [02:02.69]And believing that nothing [02:04.26]Is done without trying [02:05.82]She sets right to work with her baking and frying [02:08.67] [02:09.22]She makes them a mouse-cake [02:10.44]Of bread and dried peas [02:12.20]And a beautiful fry of lean bacon and cheese [02:15.38] [02:46.81]I have a Gumbie Cat in mind [02:51.17]Her name is Jennyanydots [02:55.75]The curtain cord she likes to wind [03:00.13]And tie it into sailor knots [03:04.69]She sits upon the windowsill or anything [03:11.18]That's smooth and flat [03:13.78]She sits and sits and sits and sits [03:18.26]And that's what makes a Gumbie Cat [03:21.66] [03:23.18]That's what makes a Gumbie Cat [03:26.95] [03:29.15]But [03:30.12]When the day's hustle and bustle is done [03:32.67]Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun [03:35.81]She thinks that the cockroaches need employment [03:38.68]To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment [03:41.79]So she's formed from that lot of disorderly louts [03:44.94]A troop of well disciplined helpful boy scouts [03:47.63]With a purpose in life and a good deed to do [03:50.88]And she's even created a Beetles Tattoo [03:54.01] [05:02.96]So for old Gumbie Cats let us give three cheers [05:06.33]On whom well ordered households depend [05:10.07]It appears [05:10.82]Three cheers three cheers three cheers [05:14.35]For she's a jolly good fellow [05:18.90] [05:23.53]Thank you my dears [05:24.64]The Old Gumbie Cat - Musical Mania