[MUNGOJERRIE]
Mungojerrie
[RUMPELTEAZER]
And Rumpelteazer
[MUNGOJERRIE/RUMPELTEAZER]
We're a notorious couple of cats
As knockabout clowns, quick-change comedians
Tight-rope walkers and acrobats
[RUMPELTEAZER]
We have an extensive reputation
[MUNGOJERRIE]
We make our home in Victoria Grove
[MUNGOJERRIE/RUMPELTEAZER]
This is merely our center of operation
For we are incurably given to rove
[RUMPELTEAZER]
We are very well known in Cornwall Gardens
[MUNGOJERRIE]
In Launceston Place
[RUMPELTEAZER]
And in Kensington Square
[MUNGOJERRIE/RUMPELTEAZER]
We have really a little more reputation
Than a couple of cats can very well bear
[RUMPELTEAZER]
If the area window is found ajar
[MUNGOJERRIE]
And the basement looks like a field of war
If a tile or two comes loose on the roof
[RUMPELTEAZER]
Which presently fails to be waterproof
[MUNGOJERRIE/RUMPELTEAZER]
If the drawers are pulled out from the bedroom chests
And you can't find one of your winter vests
[RUMPELTEAZER]
If after supper one of the girls
Suddenly misses her Woolworth pearls
[MUNGOJERRIE/RUMPELTEAZER]
The family will say, "It's that horrible cat!
[MUNGOJERRIE]
Was it Mungojerrie
[RUMPELTEAZER]
Or Rumpelteazer?"
[MUNGOJERRIE/RUMPELTEAZER]
And most of the time they leave it at that
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer have a very unusual gift of the gab
[MUNGOJERRIE]
We're highly efficient cat burglars as well
[RUMPELTEAZER]
And remarkably smart at a smash and grab
We make our home in Victoria Grove
[MUNGOJERRIE]
We have no regular occupation
[MUNGOJERRIE/RUMPELTEAZER]
We are plausible fellows who like to engage
A friendly policeman in conversation
When the family a**embles for Sunday dinner
With their minds made up that they won't get thinner
[MUNGOJERRIE]
On Argentine joint
[RUMPELTEAZER]
Potatoes and greens
[MUNGOJERRIE/RUMPELTEAZER]
Then the cook will appear from behind the scenes
[MUNGOJERRIE]
And say in a voice that is broken with sorrow
[RUMPELTEAZER]
"I'm afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrow
[MUNGOJERRIE/RUMPELTEAZER]
For the joint has gone from the oven like that!"
The family will say, "It's that horrible cat!
[MUNGOJERRIE]
Was it Mungojerrie
[RUMPELTEAZER]
Or Rumpelteazer?"
[MUNGOJERRIE/RUMPELTEAZER]
And most of the time they leave it at that
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer have a wonderful way of working together
[RUMPELTEAZER]
And some of the time you would say it was luck
[MUNGOJERRIE]
And some of the time you would say it was weather
[MUNGOJERRIE/RUMPELTEAZER]
We'd go through the house like a hurricane
[RUMPELTEAZER]
And no sober person can take his oath
[MUNGOJERRIE]
Was it Mungojerrie
[RUMPELTEAZER]
Or Rumpelteazer?
[MUNGOJERRIE/RUMPELTEAZER]
Or could you have sworn that it might have been both?
[MUNGOJERRIE]
And when you hear a dining room smash
[RUMPELTEAZER]
Or up from the pantry there comes a loud crash
[MUNGOJERRIE]
Or down from the library there comes a loud ping
[RUMPELTEAZER]
From a vase which is commonly said to be Ming
[MUNGOJERRIE/RUMPELTEAZER]
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"