歌曲名 The Naming Of Cats(Original London Cast Recording / 1981)

歌手名 Andrew Lloyd Webber+"Cats" 1981 Original London Cast

作词：T.S. Eliot+Trevor Nunn+Richard Stilgoe

The naming of cats is a difficult matter

It isn't just one of your holiday games

You may think that I'm as mad as a hatter

When I tell you a cat must have three different names

First of all there's the name that the family use daily

Such as Peter Augustus Alonzo or James

Such as Victor or Jonathan George or Bill Baily -

All of them sensible everyday names

There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter

Some for the gentlemen some for the dames

Such as Plato Admetus Electra Demeter -

But all of them sensible everyday names

But I tell you a cat needs a name that's particular

A name that's peculiar and more dignified

Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular

Or spread out his whiskers or cherish his pride

Of names of this kind I can give you a quorum

Such as Munkustrap Quaxo or Coricopat

Such as Bombalurina or else Jellylorum -

Names that never belong to more than one cat

But above and beyond there's still one name left over

And that is the name that you never will guess

The name that no human research can discover

But the cat himself knows and will never confess

When you notice a cat in profound meditation

The reason I tell you is always the same

His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation

Of the thought of the thought of the thought of his name

His ineffable effable effanineffable

Deep and inscrutable singular name

Name name name name name name