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 A - E/G# - Bm - E - 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!!! Fm Fm The pekes and the pollicles everyone knows Fm C7/F - Fm - Are a proud and implacable passionate foes C7/F Fm - It is always the same whereever one goes Fm And the Pugs and the Poms although most people say Fm C7/F - Fm - That they do not like fighting yet once in a way C7/F - C7/F Fm They will now and again join into the fray and they Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark E/B - Fm/C - C7 - Fm - Until you could hear them all over the park and they Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark E/B - Fm/C - C7 - Fm - Until you could hear them all over the park Fm Fm Now on the occassion of which I shall speak Fm C7/F - Fm - Almost nothing had happened for nearly a week C7/F - C7/F - C7/F - Fm - And that's a long time for a Pol or a Peke Fm Fm The big police dog was away from his beat Fm C7/F - Fm - I don't know the reason but most people think C7/F - C7/F - C7/F - Fm - He slipped into the Wellington Arms for a drink Bbm - Eb - Ab - C# - And no one at all was about on the street F# - C7 - Fm When a Peke and a Pollicle happened to meet Bbm - Eb - Ab - C# - They did not advance or exactly retreat F# - C7 But they glared at each other and scraped their hind feet and they started to Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark E/B - Fm/C - C7 - Fm - Until you could hear them all over the park Fm Fm Now the Peke although people may say what they please Fm C7/F - Fm - Is no British dog but a heathen Chinese Fm Fm And so all the Pekes when they heard the uproar Fm C7/F - Fm - Some came to the window, some came to the door C7/F Fm - There were surely a dozen more likely a score Bbm - Eb - Ab - C# - And together they started to grumble and wheeze F# - C7 - Fm In their huffery-snuffery heathen Chinese Bbm - Eb - Ab - C# - But a terrible din is what Pollicles like F# - C# - Fm For your Pollicle dog is a dour Yorkshire tyke Bb - F7/A#-Bb There are dogs out of every nation F - C7 - F the Irish, the Welsh and the Dane: Ab Eb The Russian, the Dutch, the Dalmatian, Bb - Bb/D - Eb - Eb/F - and even from China and Spain. Bb - F7/Bb - Bb The Poodle, the Pom, the Alsatian F - C7 - F - Eb - And the Mastiff who walks on a chain. Bb/D - F7 - Bb And to those that are frisky and frolical, Bb Ab/Bb Let my meaning be perfectly plain: Bb - F7/Bb - Bb 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" Bb Bb (2 bars) Ab/Bb Bb (2 bars) Bb - Ab Fm Fm Then the Pugs and the Poms held no longer aloof Fm C7/F - Fm But some from the balcony some from the roof joined into the din with a Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark E/B - Fm/C - C7 - Fm - Until you could hear them all over the park Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark E/B - Fm/C - C7 - Fm - Until you could hear them all over the park Fm Now when these bold hereos together assembled Fm C7/F - Fm - The traffic all stopped and the underground trembled Fm And some of the neighbours were so much afraid Fm C7/F - Fm - That they started to ring up the Fire Brigade! Bbm - Eb - Ab - C# - When suddenly up from a small basement flat F# - C7 Eb--Ab 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 Fm Fm And what with a glare of his eyes and his yawning C/F - F - The Pekes and the Pollicles quickly took warning Fm Fm He looked at the sky and he gave a great leap Fm C/F - Fm - And they every last one of them scattered like sheep! Fm (2 bars) Fm C/F - Fm - Bbm - Eb - Ab - C# - 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! E/B---E/B - Fm/C All hail and all power to the Great Rumpus Cat!!!! Fm F#/F Jellicle cats and dogs all must Eb/F Fm Pollicle dogs and cats all must C# F#7 Like undertakers come to dust (Macavity)
