SONG: The Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles
ARTIST: Andrew Lloyd Webber

From the musical, Cats


Jellicle cats meet once a year
on the night we make the Jellicle choice and
now that the Jellicle leader is here
Jellicle cats can all rejoice

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A
D - D/E

Of the awful battle of the pekes and the pollicles 
Together with some account Of the participation of the pugs and the poms 
And the intervention of the great Rumpus Cat!!! 

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The pekes and the pollicles everyone knows 
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Are a proud and implacable passionate foes
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It is always the same whereever one goes
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And the Pugs and the Poms although most people say 
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That they do not like fighting yet once in a way 
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They will now and again join into the fray and they 
Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark
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Until you could hear them all over the park and they 
Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark 
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Until you could hear them all over the park 

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Now on the occassion of which I shall speak 
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Almost nothing had happened for nearly a week
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And that's a long time for a Pol or a Peke 
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The big police dog was away from his beat 
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I don't know the reason but most people think 
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He slipped into the Wellington Arms for a drink
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And no one at all was about on the street
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When a Peke and a Pollicle happened to meet 
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They did not advance or exactly retreat
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But they glared at each other and scraped their hind feet and they started to 
Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark 
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Until you could hear them all over the park 

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Now the Peke although people may say what they please 
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Is no British dog but a heathen Chinese 
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And so all the Pekes when they heard the uproar
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Some came to the window, some came to the door
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There were surely a dozen more likely a score
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And together they started to grumble and wheeze
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In their huffery-snuffery heathen Chinese 
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But a terrible din is what Pollicles like
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For your Pollicle dog is a dour Yorkshire tyke 


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There are dogs out of every nation 
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the Irish, the Welsh and the Dane: 
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The Russian, the Dutch, the Dalmatian,
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and even from China and Spain. 
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The Poodle, the Pom, the Alsatian
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And the Mastiff who walks on a chain. 
       Bb/D     -     F7     -   Bb
And to those that are frisky and frolical,
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Let my meaning be perfectly plain:

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That my name it is little Tom Pollicle, 
          Bb    -    Ab  -  Bb 
and you'd better not do it again!"
        Fm 
And his braw Scottish cousins are snappers and biters 
And every dog-jack of them notable fighters 
And so they stepped out with their pipers in order 
Playing "When the Blue Bonnets Come Over The Border" 

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Bb (2 bars)
Ab/Bb
Bb (2 bars)
Bb - Ab

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Then the Pugs and the Poms held no longer aloof 
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But some from the balcony some from the roof joined into the din with a 
Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark 
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Until you could hear them all over the park 
Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark 
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Until you could hear them all over the park

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Now when these bold hereos together assembled 
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The traffic all stopped and the underground trembled
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And some of the neighbours were so much afraid 
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That they started to ring up the Fire Brigade!
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When suddenly up from a small basement flat
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Why who should stalk out but the Great Rumpus Cat!!!! 
His eyes were like fireballs fearfully blazing 
He gave a great yawn and his jaws were amazing 
And when he looked out through the bars of the area 
You never saw anything fiercer.... 
...Or hairier 

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And what with a glare of his eyes and his yawning 
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The Pekes and the Pollicles quickly took warning
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He looked at the sky and he gave a great leap
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And they every last one of them scattered like sheep!

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And when the Police dog returned to his beat
      E/B   -  Fm/C    -  C7     -    Fm 
There wasn't a single one left on the street!
 

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All hail and all power to the Great Rumpus Cat!!!!

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Jellicle cats and dogs all must
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Pollicle dogs and cats all must
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Like undertakers come to dust

(Macavity)