The Old Gumbie Cat - Original Broadway Cast
Written by：T.S. Eliot/Andrew Lloyd Webber
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 beneath the stairs
Or on the steps or on the mat
She sits and sits and sits and sits
And that's what makes a gumbie cat
That's what makes a gumbie cat
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
Their behavior's not good
And their manners not nice
So when she has got them
Lined up on the matting
She teaches them music
Crocheting and tatting
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 windowsill
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
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 need employment
To prevent them from idle
And wanton destroyment
So she's formed from
That lot of disorderly louts
A troop of well disciplined helpful boy scouts
With a purpose in life and a good deed to do
And she's even
Created
A beetles
Tattoo
For she's a Jolly good fellow
Thank you my dears
