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Macavity

 



SOLO (spoken): 



Macavity!



 



DEMETER:



Macavity's a mystery cat, he's called the hidden paw



For he's a master criminal who can defy the law



He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair



For when they reach the scene of crime MACAVITY'S NOT THERE!



 



Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity



He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity



His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare



And when you reach the scene of crime Macavity's not there!



You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air



But I tell you once and once again MACAVITY'S NOT THERE!



 



Macavity's a ginger cat, he's very tall and thin



You would know him if you saw him for his eyes are sunken in



His brow is deeply lined in thought, his head is highly domed



His coat is dusty from neglect, his whiskers are uncombed



He sways his head from side to side with movements like a snake



And when you think he's half asleep, he's always wide awake



 



Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity



He's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity



You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the square



But when a crime's discovered then MACAVITY'S NOT THERE!



 



BOMBALURINA:



He's outwardly respectable, I know he cheats at cards



And his footprints are not found in any files of Scotland Yard's



 



DEMETER:



And when the larder's looted 



 



BOMBALURINA:



Or the jewel case is rifled



 



DEMETER:



Or when the milk is missing 



 



BOMBALURINA:



Or another peke's been stifled



 



DEMETER:



Or the greenhouse glass is broken 



 



BOMBALURINA:



And the trellis past repair



 



BOTH:



There's the wonder of the thing: MACAVITY'S NOT THERE!



 



And when the crime has been disclosed the Secret Service say



"It must have been Macavity!"-- but he's a mile away



You'll be sure to find him resting, or a-licking of his thumbs,



Or engaged in doing complicated long division sums!



 



Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity



There never was a cat of such deceitfulness and suavity



He always has an alibi and one or two to spare



What ever time the deed took place MACAVITY WASN'T THERE!



 



And they say that all the cats whose wicked deeds are widely known



(I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone)



Are nothing more than agents for the cat who all the time



Just controls their operations: "The Napoleon of Crime"!



 



Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity



He's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity



You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the square



But when a crime's discovered then Macavity



Macavity, Macavity, Macavity



When a crime's discovered then MACAVITY'S NOT THERE!



 
(DANCE -- MACAVITY)




CHORUS (spoken):



Macavity's not there!