SOLO (spoken):

Macavity!



MUNGOJERRIE:

Mungojerrie



RUMPLETEAZER:

And Rumpleteazer



BOTH:

We're a notorious couple of cats

As knockabout clowns, quick change comedians

Tight-rope walkers and acrobats



RUMPLETEAZER:

We have an extensive reputation



MUNGOJERRIE:

We make our home in Victoria Grove



BOTH:

That is merely our center of operation

For we are incurably given to rove



RUMPLETEAZER:

We are very well known in Cornwall Gardens



MUNGOJERRIE:

In Launceston Place



RUMPLETEAZER:

And in Kensington Square



BOTH:

We have really a little more reputation

Than a couple of cats can very well bear



RUMPLETEAZER:

If the area window is found ajar



MUNGOJERRIE:

Or the basement looks like a field of war

If a tile or two comes loose on the roof



RUMPLETEAZER:

Which presently fails to be waterproof



BOTH:

If the drawers are pulled out from bedroom chests

And you can't find one of your winter vests



RUMPLETEAZER:

If after supper one of the girls

Suddenly misses her Woolworth pearls



BOTH:

Then the family will say, "It's that horrible cat!



MUNGOJERRIE:

"It was Mungojerrie



RUMPLETEAZER:

"Or Rumpleteazer!"



BOTH:

And most of the time they leave it at that



BOTH:

Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer have a very unusual gift of the gab



MUNGOJERRIE:

We are highly efficient cat burglars as well



RUMPLETEAZER:

And remarkably smart at the smash and grab

We make our home in Victoria Grove



MUNGOJERRIE:

We have no regular occupation



BOTH:

We are plausible fellows who like to engage

A friendly policeman in conversation



When the family assembles for Sunday dinner

Their minds made up that they won't get thinner



MUNGOJERRIE:

On Argentine joint,



RUMPLETEAZER:

Potatoes and greens



BOTH:

Then the cook will appear from behind the scenes



MUNGOJERRIE:

And say in a voice that is broken with sorrow



RUMPLETEAZER:

"I'm afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrow

For the joint has gone from the oven like that!"



BOTH:

Then the family will say, "It's that horrible cat!



MUNGOJERRIE:

"It was Mungojerrie



RUMPLETEAZER:

"Or Rumpleteazer!"



BOTH:

And most of the time they leave it at that



BOTH:

Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer have a wonderful way

Of working together



RUMPLETEAZER:

And some of the time you would say it was luck



MUNGOJERRIE:

And some of the time you would say it was weather



BOTH:

We go through the house like a hurricane

And no sober person could take his oath



MUNGOJERRIE:

Was it Mungojerrie?



RUMPLETEAZER:

Or Rumpleteazer?



BOTH:

Or could you have sworn that it mightn't be both?



MUNGOJERRIE:

And when you hear a dining room smash



RUMPLETEAZER:

Or up from the pantry there comes a loud crash



MUNGOJERRIE:

Or down from the library there comes a loud ping



RUMPLETEAZER:

From a vase that was commonly said to be Ming



BOTH:

Then the family will say: "Now which was which cat?

It was Mungojerrie *AND* Rumpleteazer!"



And there's nothing at all to be done about that!