Bustopher Jones lyrics

[ JENNYANYDOTS ]

Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones

[ BOMBALURINA ]

In fact, he's remarkably fat

[ JELLYLORUM ]

He doesn't haunt pubs

[ JENNYANYDOTS ]

He has eight or nine clubs

[ JENNYANYDOTS, BOMBALURINA, AND JELLYLORUM ]

For he's the St. James's Street cat!

[ JENNYANYDOTS ]

He's the cat we all greet

As he walks down the street

In his coat of fastidious black

[ BOMBALURINA ]

No commonplace mouses

Have such well-cut trousers

[ JELLYLORUM ]

Or such an impeccable back!

[ JENNYANYDOTS ]

In the whole of St. James, the smartest of names

Is the name of the Brummell of cats

[ JENNYANYDOTS, BOMBALURINA, AND JELLYLORUM ]

And we're all of us proud

To be nodded or bowed to

By Bustopher Jones in white spats

[ ENSEMBLE ]

In the whole of St. James, the smartest of names

Is the name of the Brummell of cats

And we're all of us proud

To be nodded or bowed to

By Bustopher Jones in white spats

[ BUSTOPHER JONES ]

My visits are occasional to the Senior Educational

And it is against the rules

For any one cat to belong both to that

In the Joint Superior Schools

For a similar reason, when game is in season

I'm found, not at Fox's, but at Blimp's

I am frequently seen at the gay Stage and Screen

Which is famous for winkles and shrimps

In the season of venison I give my ben'son

To the Pothunter's succulent bones

And just before noon's not a moment too soon

To drop in for a drink at the Drones

When I'm seen in a hurry there's probably curry

At The Siamese or at The Glutton

If I look full of gloom then I've lunched at The Tomb

On cabbage, rice pudding, and mutton

[ ENSEMBLE ]

In the whole of St. James, the smartest of names

Is the name of the Brummell of cats

And we're all of us proud

To be nodded or bowed to

By Bustopher Jones in white

By Bustopher Jones in white spats

[ JENNYANYDOTS ]

So much in this way passes Bustopher's day

At one club or another he's found

It can be no surprise that under our eyes

He has grown unmistakably round

He's a twenty-five pounder

[ BUSTOPHER JONES ]

Or I am a bounder!

[ JENNYANYDOTS ]

And he's putting on weight every day!

[ BUSTOPHER JONES ]

But I'm so well-preserved because I've observed

All me life, a routine, and I'd say

I am still in my prime

I shall last out me time

[ JENNYANYDOTS ]

That's the word from the stoutest of cats

[ ENSEMBLE ]

It must and it shall be spring in Pall Mall

While Bustopher Jones wears white

Bustopher Jones wears white

Bustopher Jones wears white

Spats!

[ BUSTOPHER JONES ]

Toodle-pip!