Lyrics-Mungojerrie & Rumpleteazer

Mungojerrie: 

Mungojerrie

Rumpleteazer: 

And Rumpleteazer

Mungojerrie & Rumpleteazer: 

We're a notorious couple of cats

Rumpleteazer: 

As knockabout clowns, quick-change comedians

Tight rope walkers and acrobats

Mungojerrie: 

We have an extensive reputation

We make our home in Victoria Grove

This is merely our center of operation

Mungojerrie & Rumpleteazer: 

For we are incurably

Given to rove!

When the family assembles for Sunday dinner

Their minds made up that the won't get thinner

Mungojerrie:

 On Argentine joint

Rumpleteazer: 

Potatoes and greens

Then the cook would appear from behind the scenes!

Mungojerrie: 

And say in a voice that was broken with sorrow,

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

                     The joint has gone from the oven like that!"

Mungojerrie & Rumpleteazer: 

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

Mungojerrie: 

Was it Mungojerrie?

Rumpleteazer: 

Or Rumpleteazer?"

Mungojerrie & Rumpleteazer: 

And most of the time they leave it at that!

Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer

Have a wonderful way of working together

And some of the time you would say it was luck!

And some of the time you would say it was weather

We go through the house like a hurricane

Mungojerrie: 

And no sober person

Mungojerrie & Rumpleteazer: 

Could take his oath!

                                            

Mungojerrie: 

Was it Mungojerrie?

Rumpleteazer: 

Or Rumpleteazer?

Mungojerrie & Rumpleteazer: 

Or could you have sworn that it might have both!

And when you hear a dining room SMASH

Or up from the pantry there comes a loud CRASH

Or down from the library came a loud PING

From a vase which was commonly said to be Ming...

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

Mungojerrie: 

It was...Mungojerrie!

Rumpleteazer: 

And...!  Rumpleteazer!

Mungojerrie & Rumplteazer: 

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

All: 

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