Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer    (video)

 

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1. Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer, we're a notorious couple of cats.

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    as knockabout clowns, quick change comedians,

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    tightrope walkers and acrobats.

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    We have an extensive reputation,

 

    we make our home in Victoria Grove.

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    This is merely our centre of operation,

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    for we are incurably given to rove.

 

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(2.) We are very well-known in Cornwall Gardens,

 

    in Launceston Place and in Kensington Square.

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    We have really a little more reputation

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     than a couple of cats can very well bear.

 

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3. If the area window is found ajar,

 

    and the basement looks like a field of war,

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    if a tile or two comes loose on the roof,

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    which presently fails to be waterproof.

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    If the drawers are pulled out from bedroom chests,

 

    and you can't find one of your winter vests,

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    if after supper one of the girls,

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    suddenly misses her Woolworth pearls :

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    The family will say: “It's that horrible cat!

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    Was it Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer ?”

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    And most of the time they leave it at that.

 

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4. Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer have a very unusual gift of the gab.

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     we are highly efficient catburglars as well

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    and remarkably smart at a smash and grab.

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    We make our home in Victoria Grove,

 

    we have no regular occupation.

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    we are plausible fellows, and like to engage

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    a friendly policemen in conversation.

 

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5. When the family assembles for Sunday dinner

 

     with their minds made up that they won't get thinner

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    on Argentine joint, potatoes and greens,

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    and the cook would appear from behind the scenes.

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    And say in a voice that is broken with sorrow :

 

    ”I'm afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrow !

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    For the joint has gone from the oven, like that!”

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    The family will say: “It's that horrible cat !

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    Was it Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer ?”

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    And most of the time they leave it at that.

 

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6. Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer

 

    have a wonderful way of working together,

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    and some of the time you would say it was luck,

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    and some of the time you would say it was weather.

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    We go through the house like a hurricane,

 

    and no sober person could take his oath.

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    Was it Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer ?

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

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    And when you hear a dining-room smash,

 

    or up from the pantry there comes a loud crash,

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    or down from the library there comes a loud ping

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    from a vase which is commonly said to be Ming.

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    Then the family will say: “Now which is which cat ?

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    It was Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer!”

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

 

    (Andrew Lloyd Webber)