Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer
Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer
We're a notorious couple of cats
As knockabout clowns, quick change comedians
Tight-rope walkers and acrobats
We have an extensive reputation
Make our home in Victoria Grove
That is merely our center of operation
For we are incurable given to rove
When the family assembled for Sunday dinner
Their minds made up that they wouldn't get thinner
On Argentine joint, potatoes and greens
Then the cook would appear from behind the scenes
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!"
Then the family would say, "It's that horrible cat!"
It was Mungojerrie or Rumpleteazer
And most of the time they left 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
And no sober person could take his oath
Was it Mungojerrie or Rumpleteazer?
Or could you have sworn that it might be both?
When you hear a dining room smash
Or up from the pantry there comes a loud crash
Or down from the library there comes a loud ping
From a vase which was commonly said to be Ming
Then the family would say: "Now which was which cat?"
It was Mungojerrie... AND Rumpleteazer
And there's nothing at all to be done about that!
