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Gus is the cat at the theatre door |
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His name is l ought to have told you before |
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ls really Asparagus |
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but that's such a fuss to pronounce |
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That we usually call him just Gus |
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His coat's very shabby. He's thin as a rake |
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And he suffers from palsy that makes his paw shake |
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Yet he was in his youth, quite the smartest of cats |
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But no longer a terror to mice or to rats |
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For he isn't the cat that he was in his prime |
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Though his name was quiet famous, he says in his time |
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And when ever he joins his friends at their club |
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Which takes place at the back of the neighboring pub |
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He loves to regale them if someone else pays |
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With anecdotes drawn from his palmist days |
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For he once was a star of the highest degree |
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He has acted with lrving |
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he has acted with Tree |
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And he likes to relate his success on the halls |
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Where the gallery once gave him seven cat calls |
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But his grandest creation as he loves to tell |
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was Firefrofiddle, the fiend of the fell |
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l have played in my time every possible part |
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And l used to know seventy speeches by heart |
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l'd extemporise back chat l knew how to gag |
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And l knew how to let the cat out of the bag |
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l knew how to act with my back and my tail |
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With an hour of rehearsal l never could fail |
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l'd a voice that would soften the hardest of hearts |
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Whether l took the lead |
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Or in character parts |
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l have sat by the bedside of poor little Nell |
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When the curfew was rung, then l swung on the bell |
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ln the pantomime season l never fell flat |
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And l once under-studied Dick Whittington's cat |
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But the grandest creation as history will tell |
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was Firefrofiddle, the fiend of the fell |
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Then if someone will give him a toothful of gin |
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At a Shakespeare performance he once walked on pat |
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When some actor suggested the need for a cat |
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And l say that these kittens |
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They do not get trained as we did in the days |
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When Victoria reigned |
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They never get drilled in a regular troupe |
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And they think they are smart just to jump through a hoop |
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And he says as he scratches himself with his claws |
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Well, the theatre is certainly not what it was |
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These modern productions are all very well |
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But there's nothing to equal from what l hear tell |
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That moment of mystery |
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When l made history as Firefrofiddle |
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the fiend of the fell《 |
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These modern productions are all very well |
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But there's nothing to equal from what l hear tell |
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That moment of mystery |
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