Cats Musical - Old Deuteronomy lyrics

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Cats Musical - Old Deuteronomy lyrics

[Chorus] CAST: Well of all things can it be really Yes, no, ho, hi, oh my eye! My mind may be wondering but I confess I believe it is Old Deuteronomy [Verse 1] MUNKUSTRAP: Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time He's a cat who has lived many lives in succession He was famous in Proverb and famous in rhyme A long while before Queen Victoria's accession [Verse 2] THE RUM TUM TUGGER: Old Deuteronomy's buried nine wives And more I am tempted to say-ninety nine And his numerous progeny prospers and thrives And the villiage is pround of him in his decline [Verse 3] MUNKUSTRAP: At the sight of that placid and grand phsiognomy When he sits in the sun on the vicarage wall The oldest habitant croaks [Chorus] MUNKUSTRAP AND THE RUM TUM TUGGER: Well of all things can it be really Yes, no, ho, hi, oh my eye! My mind may be wondering but I confess I believe it is Old Deuteronomy [Verse 4] RUM TUM TUGGER old Deuteronomy sits in the street he sits on the high street on market day the bullocks may bellow the sheep may bleet but the dogs and the herdsman will turn them away [Verse 5] MUNKUSTRAP the cars and the lorries run over the curb and the villagers put up a notice "road closed" so that nothing untoward may chance to disturb Deuteronomy's rest when he feels so disposed The digestive repose of that feline's gastronomy Must never be broken, whatever befall: [Chorus] And the Oldest Inhabitant croaks: "Well, of all . . . Things. . . Can it be . . . really! . . . yes!. . . no!. . . Ho! hi! Oh, my eye! my mind may be wondering but I confess I believe it is Old Deuteronomy CAST (2X): Well of all things can it be really Yes, no, ho, hi, oh my eye! My mind may be wondering but I confess I believe it is Old Deuteronomy CAST:Well of all things can it be really Yes, no, ho, hi, oh my eye! [Verse 6] OLD DEUTERONOMY: My legs may be tottery I must go slow And be careful of Old Deuteronomy