macavity Songtext / Lyric

ALONZO
Macavity!

DEMETER
Macavity's a mystery cat: he's called the hidden paw -
For he's the master criminal who can defy the law.
He's the bafflement of Scotland yard, the flying squad's despair:
And when they reach the scene of crime - Macavity's not there!
Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
he's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
and when you reach the scene of crime - Macavity's not there!
You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air -
But I tell you once and once again. Macavity's not there!

BOMBALURINA
Macavity's a ginger cat, he's very tall an thin.
You would know him if you saw him, for his eyes are sunken in.
His brow is deeply lined with thought, his head is highly domed.
His coat is dusty from neglect, his whiskers are uncombed.
He sways his head from side to side, with movements like a snake.
And when you think he's half asleep, he's always wide awake.

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity.
For he's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity.
You may meet him in the By-Street you may see him in the square -
But when a crime's discovered, then Macavity's not there!

DEMETER
He's outwardly respectable

BOMBALURINA
(I know he cheats at cards)

DEMETER
And his footprints are not found in any files of Scotland Yard's.

BOBALURINA
And when the larder's looted,

DEMETER
Or the jewel-case is rifled.

BOMBALURINA
Or when the milk is missing,

DEMETER
Or another peke's been stifled.

BOMBALURINA
Or the greenhouse glass is broken,

DEMTER
And the trellis past repair -

DEMETER +BOMBALURINA
There's the wonder of the thing, Macavity's not there!

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity
There never was a cat of such deceitfulness and suavity.
He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare
What ever time the deep took place, Macavity wasn't there.
And they say that all the cats whose wicked deeps are widely known

DEMETER
(I might mention Mungojerrie,

BOMBALURINA
I might mention Griddlebone)

DEMETER + BOMBALURINA
Are nothing mire than agents for the cats who all the time
Just controls their operations the Napoleon of crime!

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity.
He's a find in feline shape, a monster of depravity.
You may meet him in a by street, you may see him in the square,
but when a crime's discovered then
Macavity, Macavity, Macavity, Macavity
But when a crime's discovered then
Macavity's not there!

ALL
We have to find Old Deuteronomy