歌曲名 The Old Gumbie Cat 歌手名 Andrew Lloyd Webber+ Cats 1983 Broadway Cast

作词：T S Eliot+Andrew Lloyd Webber+Trevor Nunn+Richard Stilgoe

作曲：Andrew Lloyd Webber

I have a Gumbie Cat in mind

Her name is Jennyanydots

Her coat is of the tabby kind with

tiger stripes and leopard spots

All day she sits upon the stair

or on the step or on the mat

She sits and sits and sits and sits

And that's what makes a Gumbie Cat

That's what makes a Gumbie Cat

But

When the day's hustle and bustle is done

Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun

And when all the family's in bed and asleep

She tucks up her skirts to the basement to creep

She is deeply concerned with the ways of the mice

Their behaviour's not good

and their manners not nice

So when she has got them lined up on the matting

She teaches them music crocheting and tatting

I have a Gumbie Cat in mind

Her name is Jennyanydots

The curtain cord she likes to wind

and tie it into sailor knots

She sits upon the windowsill

or anything that's smooth and flat

She sits and sits and sits and sits

And that's what makes a Gumbie Cat

That's what makes a Gumbie Cat

But

When the day's hustle and bustle is done

Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun

She thinks that the

cockroaches need employment

To prevent them from idle

and wanton destroyment

So she's formed from that lot of disorderly louts

A troop of well disciplined helpful boy scouts

With a purpose in life and a good deed to do

And she's even created a Beetles Tattoo

For she's a jolly good fellow

Thank you my dears