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MUNGOJERRIE AND RUMPELTEAZER
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 center of operation for we are incurable given to rove
If the area window is found ajar and the basement looks like a field of war
If a tile or two comes loose on the roof which presently ceased to be waterproof
If the drawers are pulled out from the bedroom chests
And you can't find one of your winter vests
Or after supper one of the girls suddenly misses her Woolworth pearls
Then the family'll 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 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 liked to engage a friendly policeman in conversation!
When the family assembled 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 behind 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 would say "It's that
horrible cat!"
Was it 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 an 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 hear a dinning 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 Rumpelteazer and there's nothing at all to be done about that!
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