Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer We’re a notorious couple of cats Knock about 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. We are very well known in Cornwall Gardens In Launceston Place and in Kensington Square We have really a little more reputation Than a couple of cats can very well bear If the area window is found ajar And the basement looks like a field of war If a tile or comes loose on the roof which presently fails to be waterproof If the drawers are pulled our from the bedroom chests and you can’t find one of your winter vests Or if after supper one of the girls Suddenly misses her Woolworth pearls. Then the family ‘ll say it’s that horrible cat. Was it Mungojerrie Or Rumpleteazer and most of the time they leave it at that.
Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer Have an unusual gift of the gab. We are highly efficient cat burglars as well And remarkably smart at a smash and grab. We make our home in Victoria Grove we have no regular occupation we are plausible fellows who like to engage a friendly policeman in conversation. When the family assembles for Sunday dinner Their minds made up that they won’t get thinner on Argentine joint potatoes and greens then the cook would appear from be hind the scenes And say in a voice that is 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 ’ll say it’s that horrible cat. Was it Mungojerrie or Rumpleteazer and most of the time they leave 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 thro ’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’ve been both? And when you hear a dining room smash Or up from the pantry there comes 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 ’ll say now which was which cat? It was Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer And there’s no-thing at all to be done a-bout that. And There’s no-thing at all to be done a-bout that.