歌曲名 Old Deuteronomy(Original London Cast Recording / 1981)

歌手名 Andrew Lloyd Webber+"Cats" 1981 Original London Cast+Wayne Sleep+Jeff Shankley+John Chester+Brian Blessed

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

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

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

At the sight of that placid and bland physiognomy

When he sits in the sun on the vicarage wall

The oldest inhabitant croaks

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

Old deuteronomy sits in the street

He sits in the high street on market day

The bullocks may bellow the sheep they may bleat

But the dogs and the herdsmen will turn them away

The cars and the lorries run over the curb

And the villagers put up a notice road closed

So that nothing untoward may chance to disturb

Deuteronomy's rest when he feels so disposed

The digestive repose of that felines gastronomy

Must never be broken whatever may befall

The oldest inhabitant croaks

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 legs may be tottery i must go slow

And be careful of old deuteronomy