Old Deuteronomy lyrics

[ MUNKUSTRAP ]

Old Deuteronomy?

[ CATS ]

I believe it is Old Deuteronomy

[ ENSEMBLE ]

Well, of all things, can it be really?

Yes! No! Ho! Hi! Oh, my eye!

My mind may be wandering, but I confess

I believe it is Old Deuteronomy!

[ MUNKUSTRAP ]

Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time

He's a cat who has lived many lives in succession

He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme

A long while before Queen Victoria's accession

[ RUM TUM TUGGER ]

Old Deuteronomy's buried nine wives

And more, I am tempted to say ninety-nine

And his numerous progeny prospers and thrives

And the village is proud of him in his decline

[ MUNKUSTRAP ]

At the site of that placid and bland physiognomy

When he sits in the sun on the vicarage wall

The oldest inhabitant croaks,

[ MUNKUSTRAP AND RUM TUM TUGGER ]

"Well, of all things, can it be really?

Yes! No! Ho! Hi! Oh, my eye!

My mind may be wandering, but I confess

I believe it is Old Deuteronomy!"

[ ENSEMBLE ]

Well, of all things, can it be really?

Yes! No! Ho! Hi! Oh, my eye!

My mind may be wandering, but I confess

I believe it is old Deuteronomy!

Well, of all things, can it be really?

Yes! No! Ho! Hi! Oh, my eye!

My mind may be wandering, but I confess

I believe it is old Deuteronomy!

Well, of all things, can it be really?

Yes! No! Ho! Hi! Oh, my eye!

[ OLD DEUTERONOMY ]

My legs may be tottery, I must go slow

And be careful of Old Deuteronomy!