Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer lyrics

MUNGOJERRIE

Mungojerrie

RUMPLETEAZER

And Rumpleteazer

MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER

We're a notorious couple of

cats.

RUMPLETEAZER

As knockabout clowns,

quick change comedians

Tight-rope walkers and acrobats

MUNGOJERRIE

We have an extensive reputation

We make our home in Victoria Grove

is merely our centre of operation.

MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER

For we are incurably given to rove

RUMPLETEAZER

If the area window is found ajar. Or

the basement looks like a field of war.

If a tile or two comes loose on the roof

Which presently fails to be waterproof.

MUNGOJERRIE

If the drawers are pulled out from

bedroom chests. And

you can't find one of your winter vests

If after supper one of the girls

Suddenly misses her Woolworth pearls.

MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER

Then the family will say,

"It's that horrible cat!"

MUNGOJERRIE

Was it Mungojerrie?

RUMPLETEAZER

Or Rumpleteazer?

MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER

And most of the time

they leave it at that.

Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer

have a very unusual gift of the gab.

RUMPLETEAZER

We are highly efficient cat

burglars as well.

And remarkably

smart at the smash and grab.

MUNGOJERRIE

We make our home in Victoria Grove

We have no regular occupation

We are plausible fellows

who like to engage

MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER

A friendly policeman in conversation!

When the family assembles

for Sunday dinner

Their minds made up that they won't get

thinner.

MUNGOJERRIE

On Argentine joints

RUMPLETEAZER

Potatoes and greens

Then the cook will appear

from behind the scenes.

MUNGOJERRIE

And say in a

voice that is broken with sorrow

"I'm afraid you must wait

and have dinner

tomorrow."

For the joint has gone from

the oven like that!

MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER:

Then the family

will say, "It's that horrible cat!

MUNGOJERRIE

"Was it Mungojerrie?

RUMPLETEAZER

Or Rumpelteazer?

MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER

And most of the time

they leave it

at that.

Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer

have a wonderful way

of working together.

MUNGOJERRIE

And some of the time

you would say it was luck

RUMPLETEAZER

And some of the time

you would say it was weather.

MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER

We go through the house like a hurricane

MUNGOJERRIE

And no sober person

MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER

could take his oath.

MUNGOJERRIE

Was it Mungojerrie?

RUMPLETEAZER

Or Rumpleteazer?

MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER

Or could you have sworn that it mightn't

be both?

And when you hear a dining room

smash.

Or up from the pantry

there comes aloud crash

Or down from the library

there comes a loud ping!

From a vase that was

commonly said to be Ming!

MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER

Then the family

will say: "Now which was which cat?"

MUNGOJERRIE

It was Mungojerrie

RUMPLETEAZER

And Rumpelteazer!

MUNGOJERRIE & RUMPLETEAZER

And there's nothing at

all to be done about that!

ALL:

And there's nothing at

all to be done about that!