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Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer we’re a notorious couple of cats |
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As knockabout clowns, quick change comedians |
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Tight-rope walkers and acrobats |
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We have an extensive reputation |
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Make our home in Victoria Grove |
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This is merely our center of operation |
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For we’re incurably given to rove |
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We are very well-known in Cornwall Gardens |
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In Launceston Place, and in Kensington Square |
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We have really a little more reputation |
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Than a couple of cats can very well bear |
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If the area window is found ajar |
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And the basement looks like a field of war |
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If a tile or two comes loose on the roof |
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Which presently fails to be waterproof |
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If the drawers are pulled out from bedroom chests |
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And you can’t find one of your winter vests |
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Or after supper one of the girls |
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Suddenly misses her Woolworth pearls |
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Tthe family will say, 'It's that horrible cat! |
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Was it Mungojerrie or Rumpleteazer!' |
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And most of the time they leave it at that |
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Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer have a very unusual gift of gab |
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We’re highly efficient cat burgulars |
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As well and remarkably smart at a smash and grab |
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We make our home in Victoria Grove |
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We have no regular occupation |
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We’re plausible fellows who like to engage |
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A friendly policeman in conversation |
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When the family assembles for Sunday dinner |
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With their minds made up that they won’t get thinner on |
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Argentine joint, potatoes and greens |
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Then the cook will appear from behind the scenes |
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And say in a voice that was broken with sorrow |
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"I'm afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrow “ |
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The joint has gone from the oven like that!" |
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Tthe family will say, 'It's that horrible cat! |
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Was it Mungojerrie or Rumpleteazer!' |
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And most of the time they leave it at that |
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Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer have a wonderful way |
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Of working together |
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And some of the time you would say it was luck |
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And some of the time you would say it was weather |
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We go through the house like a hurricane |
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And no sober person can take his oath |
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Was it Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer? |
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Or could you have sworn that it mightn't be both? |
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When you hear a dining room smash |
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Or up from the pantry there comes a loud crash |
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Or down from the library there comes a loud ping |
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From a vase which is commonly said to be Ming |
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Then the family would say: "Now which was which cat? |
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It was Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer |
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And there's nothing at all to be done about that!" |
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