Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer, we're a notorious couple of cats As knockabout clowns, quick-change comedians tight-rope walkers and acrobats We have an extensive reputation. We make our home in Victoria Grove-- This is merely our centre of operation, for we are incurably 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 Rumpelteazer!"-And most of the time, they leave it at that . Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer 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 Rumpelteazer? Or could you have sworn that it mightn't be both? . And when you heard a dining room smash Or up from the pantry there came 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 would say: "Now which was which cat? It was Mungojerrie! AND Rumpelteazer!"-And there's nothing at all to be done about that! And there’s nothing at all do be done about that! Back to Video Lyrics Back to Lyrics Home Click here to here the old version
