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Old Gumbie Cat Lyrics


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 steps 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 tap too!

For she's a jolly good fellow!

Thank you my dears!
Last Update: January, 21st 2015

Cats Lyrics

  1. Act 1
  2. Overture
  3. Prologue: Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
  4. Naming of Cats
  5. Invitation to the Jellicle Ball
  6. Old Gumbie Cat
  7. Rum Tum Tugger
  8. Grizabella: The Glamour Cat
  9. Bustopher Jones
  10. Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
  11. Old Deuteronomy
  12. Jellicle Ball
  13. Memory
  14. Act 2
  15. Moments of Happiness
  16. Gus: The Theatre Cat
  17. Growltiger's Last Stand
  18. Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat
  19. Macavity: The Mystery Cat
  20. Mr. Mistoffelees
  21. Journey to the Heaviside Layer
  22. Ad-Dressing of Cats

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