Andrew Lloyd Webber, `Cats` 1983 Broadway Cast - The Old Gumbie Cat

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 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

DEMETER/BOMBALURINA/JELLYLORUM
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

JENNYANYDOTS
Their behavior's not good and their manners not nice

DEMETER/BOMBALURINA/JELLYLORUM
So when she has got them lined up on the matting
She teaches them

JENNYANYDOTS
Music, crocheting and tatting

MISTOFFELEES
I have a Gumbie Cat in mind
Her name is Jennyanydots
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 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

DEMETER/BOMBALURINA/JELLYLORUM
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 it is due to

JENNYANYDOTS
Irregular diet

DEMETER/BOMBALURINA/JELLYLORUM
And believing that

JENNYANYDOTS
Nothing is done without trying

DEMETER/BOMBALURINA/JELLYLORUM
She sets right to work with her baking and frying
She makes them a mouse-cake of bread and dried peas

JENNYANYDOTS
And a beautiful fry of lean bacon and cheese

MISTOFFELEES
I have a Gumbie Cat in mind
Her name is

DEMETER/BOMBALURINA/JELLYLORUM
Jennyanydots

MISTOFFELEES
The curtain-cord she likes to wind
And tie it into sailor-knots
She sits upon the window-sill
Or anything that's smooth and flat:
She sits and sits and sits and sits
And that's what makes a Gumbie Cat

DEMETER/BOMBALURINA/JELLYLORUM
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

JENNYANYDOTS
Need employment

DEMETER/BOMBALURINA/JELLYLORUM
To prevent them from

JENNYANYDOTS
Idle and wanton destroyment

DEMETER/BOMBALURINA/JELLYLORUM
So she's formed from that lot of disorderly louts
A troop of well-disciplined helpful Boy Scouts

JENNYANYDOTS
With a purpose in life and a good deed to do

DEMETER/BOMBALURINA/JELLYLORUM
And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo

COMPANY
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

JENNYANYDOTS
Thank you, my dears
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 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

DEMETER/BOMBALURINA/JELLYLORUM
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

JENNYANYDOTS
Their behavior's not good and their manners not nice

DEMETER/BOMBALURINA/JELLYLORUM
So when she has got them lined up on the matting
She teaches them

JENNYANYDOTS
Music, crocheting and tatting

MISTOFFELEES
I have a Gumbie Cat in mind
Her name is Jennyanydots
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 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

DEMETER/BOMBALURINA/JELLYLORUM
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 it is due to

JENNYANYDOTS
Irregular diet

DEMETER/BOMBALURINA/JELLYLORUM
And believing that

JENNYANYDOTS
Nothing is done without trying

DEMETER/BOMBALURINA/JELLYLORUM
She sets right to work with her baking and frying
She makes them a mouse-cake of bread and dried peas

JENNYANYDOTS
And a beautiful fry of lean bacon and cheese

MISTOFFELEES
I have a Gumbie Cat in mind
Her name is

DEMETER/BOMBALURINA/JELLYLORUM
Jennyanydots

MISTOFFELEES
The curtain-cord she likes to wind
And tie it into sailor-knots
She sits upon the window-sill
Or anything that's smooth and flat:
She sits and sits and sits and sits
And that's what makes a Gumbie Cat

DEMETER/BOMBALURINA/JELLYLORUM
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

JENNYANYDOTS
Need employment

DEMETER/BOMBALURINA/JELLYLORUM
To prevent them from

JENNYANYDOTS
Idle and wanton destroyment

DEMETER/BOMBALURINA/JELLYLORUM
So she's formed from that lot of disorderly louts
A troop of well-disciplined helpful Boy Scouts

JENNYANYDOTS
With a purpose in life and a good deed to do

DEMETER/BOMBALURINA/JELLYLORUM
And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo

COMPANY
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

JENNYANYDOTS
Thank you, my dears
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Andrew Lloyd Webber, `Cats` 1983 Broadway Cast