the old gumbie cat Songtext / Lyric

MUNKUSTRAP
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!
And that's what makes a Gumbie cat

DEMETER,JELLYLORUM + BOMBALURINA
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

GUMBIE
Their behaviour's not good and their manners not nice.

TRIO
When she has got them lined up on the matting, she teaches them:

GUMBIE
Music crocheting and tatting.

MUNKUSTRAP
I have a Gumbie cat in mind, her name is

TRIO
Jennyanydots.

MUNKUSTRAP
Her equal would be hard to find, she likes the warm and sunny spots
All day she sits beside the hearth or on the bed or on my hat:
She sits and sits and sits and sits - and that's what makes a Gumbie cat!
That's what makes a Gumbie cat.

TRIO
But
When the day's hustle and bustle is done,
then the Gumbie cat's work is but hardly begun.
As she finds that the mice will not ever keep quiet.
She is sure ti is due to

GUMBIE
Irregular diet

TRIO
And believing that

GUMBIE
Nothing is done without trying

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She sets right to work with her baking and frying,
she makes them a mouse-cake of bread and dried peas,

GUMBIE
And a beautiful fry of lean bacon and cheese

MUNKUSTRAP
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 window still, 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.

TRIO
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

GUMBIE
Just need employment

TRIO
To prevent them from

GUMBIE
Idle and wanton destroyment

TRIO
So she's formed, from that lot of disorderly louts,
a troop of well disciplined helpful boy-scouts

GUMBIE
with a purpose in life and a good deed to do

TRIO
And she's even created a beetles tattoo

ALL
So for old Gumbie cats let us now give three cheers
On whom well- ordered households depend, it appears.
Three cheers! Three cheers! Three cheers!

For she's a jolly good fellow

GUMBIE
Thank you my dears.