As knock about clowns , quick change comidieans
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!
When the family assembles for Sunday dinner
Their minds made up that they wouldn't get thinner
On argintine joint, potatoes and greens
When the cook'll appear from behind the scenes
And say in a voice that is broke 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!
It was 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 through the house like a hurricane
And no sober person could take his oath
Was it Mungojerrie or Rumpleteazer?
Or could you 'ave sworn that it might have been both?
When you hear a dining room smash
Or up from the pantry there comes a loud crash
Or from the library came a loud ping
From a vase that was commonly said to be ming!
Then the family'll say, "Now which was which cat?,
It was Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer!
And there's nothing at all to be done about that!"
And there's nothing at all to be done about that!