Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer-The Theatreland Chorus

[ti:Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer] [ar:The Theatreland Chorus] [al:Cats (Hits from the Musical)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer - The Theatreland Chorus [00:00.71]Written by：Lloyd Webber/Eliot [00:01.63] [00:11.49]Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer [00:14.09]We're a notorious couple of cats [00:16.73]As knockabout clowns quick change comedians [00:19.55]Tight rope walkers and acrobats [00:22.29]We have an extensive reputation [00:25.07]We make our home in Victoria Grove [00:27.61]This is merely our centre of operation [00:30.38]For we are incurably given to rove [00:34.99] [00:37.52]We are very well known in Cornwall Gardens [00:40.86]In Launceston place and in Kensington Square [00:43.44]We have really a little more reputation [00:45.64] [00:46.15]Than a couple of cats can very well bear [00:48.76] [00:53.49]If the area window is found ajar [00:56.58]And the basement looks like a field of war [00:59.20]If a tile or two comes loose on the roof [01:02.13]Which presently fails to be waterproof [01:04.77]If the drawers are pulled out from the bedroom chest [01:07.55]And you can't find one of your winter vests [01:10.39]All after supper one of the girls [01:13.12]Suddenly misses her Woolworth pearls [01:15.99]The family will say it's that horrible cat [01:20.74]It was Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer [01:27.43] [01:28.48]And most of the time they leave it at that [01:30.91] [01:42.64]Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer have a very unusual gift of the gab [01:47.65]We are highly efficient cat burglars as well [01:50.48]And remarkably smart at a smash and grab [01:53.27]We make our home in Victoria Grove [01:56.08]We have no regular occupation [01:58.72]We are plausible fellows who like to engage [02:01.41]A friendly policeman in conversation [02:05.16] [02:09.76]When the family assembles for Sunday dinner [02:12.56]With their minds made up that they won't get thinner [02:15.29]On Argentine joint potatoes and greens [02:17.90]And the cook will appear from behind the scenes [02:21.03]And say in a voice that is broken with sorrow [02:23.60]I'm afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrow [02:26.10]For the joint has gone from the oven like that [02:28.92]The family will say it's that horrible cat [02:33.46] [02:34.31]It was Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer [02:40.28] [02:41.58]And most of the time they leave it at that [02:43.84] [02:44.44]Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer have a wonderful way of working together [02:49.63]And some of the time you would say it was luck [02:52.42]And some of the time you would say it was weather [02:55.31]We go through the house like a hurricane [02:57.95]And no sober person could take his oath [03:00.71]Was it Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer [03:03.69]Or could you have sworn that it mightn't be both [03:05.96] [03:06.65]And when you hear a dining room smash [03:08.85] [03:09.37]Or up from the pantry there comes a loud crash [03:12.03]Or down from the library there comes a loud ping [03:14.58]From a vase that was commonly said to be Ming [03:17.37]The family will say now which was which cat [03:21.61] [03:22.50]It was Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer [03:28.41] [03:29.67]And there's nothing at all to be done about that