CATS - The Old Gumbie Cat lyrics
rate meMunkustrap introduces Jennyanydots who sleeps and lounges all<br />
day long. But at night, she becomes a super-active nanny. She <br />
instructs the mice in music and crochet work, and keeps the <br />
cockroaches busy. The cats take this opportunity to dress up with <br />
Jenny and perform an exuberant tap dance.<br />
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SOLO: <br />
I have a gumbie cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots <br />
Her coat is of the tabby kind with tiger stripes and leopard spots <br />
All day she sits beneath the stairs or on the steps or on the mat <br />
She sits and sits and sits and that's what makes a gumbie cat <br />
That's what makes a gumbie cat <br />
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FEMALE CATS: <br />
But... <br />
When the day's hustle and bustle is done <br />
Then the gumbie cat's work is but hardly begun <br />
And when all the family's in bed and asleep <br />
She tucks up her skirts to the basement to creep <br />
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She is deeply concerned with the ways of the mice <br />
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JENNYANYDOTS: <br />
Their behavior's not good and their manners not nice <br />
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So when she has got them lined up on the matting <br />
She teaches them music, crocheting and tatting <br />
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SOLO: <br />
I have a gumbie cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots <br />
The curtain cord she likes to wind and tie it into sailor knots <br />
She sits upon the windowsill or anything that's smooth and flat <br />
She sits and sits and sits and that's what makes a gumbie cat <br />
That's what makes a gumbie cat <br />
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FEMALE CATS: <br />
But... <br />
When the day's hustle and bustle is done <br />
Then the gumbie cat's work is but hardly begun <br />
She thinks that the cockroaches need employment <br />
To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment <br />
So she's formed from that lot of disorderly louts <br />
A troop of well disciplined helpful boy scouts <br />
With a purpose in life and a good deed to do <br />
And she's even created a beetles tattoo! <br />
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For she's a jolly good fellow! <br />
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JENNYANYDOTS: <br />
Thank you my dears...