jellicle songs for jellicle cats Songtext / Lyric

MUNKUSTRAP
Are you blind when you born?

DEMETER
Can you see in the dark?

ASPARGUS
Dare you look at a king?

SKIMBLESHANKS
Would you sit on his throne?

RUM TUM TUGGER
Can you say of your bite that it's worse than your bark?

ALONZO
Are you cock of the walk?

GRIZABELLA
When you're walking alone?

ALL
Because Jellicles are and Jellicles do
Jellicles do and Jellicles would
Jellicles would and Jellicles can
Jellicles can and Jellicles do

JELLYLORUM
When you fall on your head, do you land on your feet?

CORICOPAT
Are you tense when you sense there's a storm in the air?

JEIMMA
Can you find your way blind, when you're lost in the street?

OLD DEUTERONOMY
Do you know how to go to the Heavyside Layer?

ALL
Because Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicles do and Jellicles can
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicles do and Jellicles can
Jellicles can and Jellicles do

TANTOMILE
Can you ride on a broomstick to places far distance?

JENNYANYDOTS
Familiar by candle,

POUNCIVAL
With book and with bell?

BOMBALURINA
Are you Whittington's friend

MR. MISTOFFELEES
The pied piper's assistant?

PLATO
Have you been an alumnus of heaven and hell?

ALL
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats

We can dive through the air like a flying trapeze
We can turn double somersaults, bounce on a tyre,
We can run up a wall can swing through the trees,
We can balance on bars, we can walk on a wire.

Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicles can and Jellicles do

Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats


Can you sing at the same time, in more than on key
Duets by Rossini and Waltzes by Strauss?
And can you (as cats do) begin with a "C"?
That always triumphantly brings down the house?

Jellicle cats are queen of the Nights
Singing at astronomical heights
Handling pieces from the messiah
Hallelujah, angelical choir

The mystical divinity of unashamed felinity
Round the cathedral rang "vivat"!
Life to the everlasting cat
Feline, fearless, faithful and true
To others who do what Jellicles do and Jellicles can

Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicle cats sing Jellicle chants
Jellicles old and Jellicles new
Jellicle songs and Jellicle dance
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats

practical cats, dramatical cats,
pragmatical cats, fanatical cats,
oratorical cats, delphicorical cats,
sceptical cats, dispeptical cats,
romantical cats, pedantical cats,
critical cats, parasitical cats,
allegorical cats, metaphorical cats,
ratistical cats, and mystical cats,
political cats, hypocritical cats,
clerical cats, hysterical cats,
cynical cats, rabbinical cats

Jellicle songs for Jellicles cats
Jellicle bells that Jellicles ring
Jellicle sharps and Jellicle flats
Jellicle songs that Jellicles sing
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats

ASPARAGUS
There's a man over there with a look of surprise
As much as to say, well how about that?

MUNKUSTRAP
Do I actually see with my own very eyes
A man who's not heard of a Jellicle cat?
What's a Jellicle cat? What's a Jellicle cat?