Macavity: The Mystery Cat-Original Broadway Cast

[ti:Macavity The Mystery Cat] [ar:Original Broadway Cast] [al:Cats CD2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.99]Macavity: The Mystery Cat - Original Broadway Cast [00:02.95] [00:37.84]Macavity's a Mystery cat: [00:40.69]He's called the Hiddenpaw [00:42.65] [00:43.31]For he's the master criminal who can defy the law [00:48.80]He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard [00:52.05]The Flying Squad's despair [00:54.85]For when they reach the scene of crime Macavity's not there [00:59.82] [01:11.97]Macavity Macavity there's no one like Macavity [01:17.19]He's broken every human law [01:19.97]He breaks the law of gravity [01:22.49]His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare [01:28.13]And when they reach the scene of crime Macavity's not there [01:33.41]You may seek him in the basement [01:36.50]You may look up in the air [01:39.46] [01:44.20]But I tell you once and once again [01:47.45]Macavity's not there [01:49.71] [01:50.40]Macavity's a ginger cat [01:52.93]He's very tall and thin [01:55.67]You would know him if you saw him for his eyes are sunken in [02:01.20]His brow is deeply lined in thought [02:04.21]His head is highly domed [02:06.81]His coat is dusty from neglect [02:09.56]His whiskers are uncombed [02:12.39]He sways his head from side to side [02:15.27]With movements like a snake [02:17.16] [02:17.77]And when you think he's half asleep [02:20.64]He's always wide awake [02:22.95] [02:23.55]Macavity Macavity [02:26.22]There's no one like Macavity [02:28.63] [02:29.16]He's a fiend in feline shape [02:31.60]A monster of depravity [02:34.26]You may meet him in a by - street [02:36.97]You may see him in the square [02:39.90]But when a crime's discovered then Macavity's not there [02:44.64] [02:45.57]He's outwardly respectable [02:50.23] [02:50.97]I know he cheats at cards [02:54.51] [02:55.96]And his footprints are not found in any files of Scotland Yard's [03:06.00] [03:07.54]And when the larder's looted or the jewel case is rifled [03:13.05]Or when the milk is missing or another peke's been stifled [03:18.47]Or the greenhouse glass is broken and the trellis past repair [03:25.78]There's the wonder of the thing Macavity's not there [03:30.24] [03:33.65]Macavity Macavity [03:35.75] [03:36.29]There's no one like Macavity [03:38.97]There never was a cat of such deceitfulness and suavity [03:44.64]He always has an alibi and one or two to spare [03:50.08]Whatever time the deed took place Macavity wasn't there [03:55.08]And they say that all the cats whose wicked deeds are widely known [04:01.12](I might mention Mungojerrie Rumpelteazer Griddlebone) [04:05.74] [04:06.70]Are nothing more than agents for the cat who all the time [04:11.75]Just controls the operations [04:14.68]The Napoleon of Crime [04:17.25] [04:23.42]Macavity Macavity there's no one like Macavity [04:29.00]He's a fiend in feline shape [04:31.45]A monster of depravity [04:33.97]You may meet him in a by-street [04:36.80]You may see him in the square [04:39.32] [04:40.34]But when a crime's discovered then Macavity's [04:43.86] [04:44.49]Macavity's Macavity's Macavity's [04:53.75] [04:59.62]But when a crime's discovered then Macavity's not there