"Cats" 1981 Original London Cast - The Old Gumbie Cat Lyrics

Lyrics The Old Gumbie Cat - "Cats" 1981 Original London Cast



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 stair or on the step 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 behaviour'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 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
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 want to 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!



Writer(s): Andrew Lloyd Webber, T.s Eliot


"Cats" 1981 Original London Cast - Cats (UK) [set]
Album Cats (UK) [set]
date of release
01-01-1981

1 The Overture
2 Prologue: Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats
3 The Naming Of Cats
4 The Invitation To The Jellicle Ball
5 The Old Gumbie Cat
6 The Rum Tum Tugger
7 Grizabella
8 Bustopher Jones
9 Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer
10 Old Deuteronomy
11 The Jellicle Ball
12 Grizabella, The Glamour Cat
13 Memory
14 The Moments Of Happiness - UK 1981 / Musical "Cats"
15 Gus: The Theatre Cat - UK 1981 / Musical "Cats"
16 Growltiger's Last Stand / The Ballad Of Billy McCaw - UK 1981 / Musical "Cats"
17 Skimbleshanks The Railway Cat - UK 1981 / Musical "Cats"
18 Macavity The Mystery Cat - UK 1981 / Musical "Cats"
19 Mr. Mistoffelees - 1981 / Musical "Cats"
20 Memory - UK 1981 / Musical "Cats"
21 The Journey To The Heaviside Layer - UK 1981 / Musical "Cats"
22 The Ad-Dressing Of Cats - UK 1981 / Musical "Cats"



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