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Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
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We're a notorious couple of cats
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As knockabout clowns, quick-change comedians
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Tight-rope walkers and acrobats
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We have an extensive reputation
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We make our home in Victoria Grove
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That is merely our centre of operation
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For we are incurably given to rove

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We are very well known in Cornwall Gardens
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In Launceston Place and in Kensington Square
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We have really a little more reputation
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Than a couple of cats can very well bear

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If the area window is found ajar
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And the basement looks like a field of war
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If a tile or two comes loose on the roof,
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Which presently fails to be waterproof
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If the drawers are pulled out from the bedroom chest
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And you can't find one of your winter vests
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Or after supper one of the girls
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Suddenly misses her Woolworth pearls
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The family will say, "It's that horrible cat!
Was it Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer?"
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And most of the time they leave it at that

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Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer have a very unusual gift of the gab
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We are highly efficient cat burglars as well
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And remarkably smart at a smash and grab
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We make our home in Victoria Grove
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We have no regular occupation
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We are plausible fellows, and like to engage
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A friendly policeman in conversation

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When the family assembles for Sunday dinner
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With their minds made up that they won't get thinner
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On Argentine joint, potatoes and greens
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And the cook would appear from behind the scenes
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And say in a voice that is broken with sorrow,
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"I'm afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrow!
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For the joint has gone from the oven like that!"
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The family will say, "It's that horrible cat!
Was it Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer?"
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And most of the time they leave it at that


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Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer have a wonderful way of working together
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And some of the time you would say it was luck
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And some of the time you would say it was weather
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We go through the house like a hurricane
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And no sober person could take his oath
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Was it Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer?
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Or could you have sworn that it mightn't be both?

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And when you hear a dining room smash
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Or up from the pantry there comes a loud crash
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Or down from the library there comes a loud ping
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From a vase that was commonly said to be Ming
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Then the family will say: "Now which is which cat?
It was Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer!"
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And there's nothing at all to be done about that!

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