The Old Gumbie Cat

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