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The rats evolved in the highly magical environment of the garbage heaps behind the Unseen University. They can talk, think, and cause a whole plague of rats with only about 200 of them around. They are accompanied by a stupid looking kid and a talking cat named Maurice. Together they roam the towns of the main continent and earn their money by creating a plague of rats in a town, and then having the stupid looking kid play his pipe to lead them away for money. That trick worked very well until they got to the town of Bad Blintz. |
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Ok, talk to you |
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Genua, XXXX, Klatch, Tsort, Ankh-Morpork, Bad Blintz |
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Calling out around the world |
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Are you ready for a brand new beat |
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Summer's here and the time is right |
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For dancing in the streets |
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They're dancing in Ankh-Morpork |
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Down in Genua |
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In Pseudopolis |
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All we need is music, sweet music |
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There'll be music everywhere |
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They'll be swinging, swaying, dishes breaking, |
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Dancing in the street, oh |
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It doesn't matter what you wear, just as long as you are there |
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So come on, every rat, grab a girl, everywhere, around the world |
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They'll be dancing, dancing in the street |
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It's an invitation across the nation, a chance for folks to screem |
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They'll be laughing and singing, music swinging |
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Dancing in the street |
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Djelibeybi, |
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Ephebe on the circle sea now |
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Don't forget Sto Helit |
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On the streets of Quirm |
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Back in Uberwald |
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No Matter where they are |
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All we need is music, sweet music |
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There'll be music everywhere |
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They'll be swinging, swaying, dishes breaking, |
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Dancing in the street, oh |
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It doesn't matter what you wear, just as long as you are there |
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So come on, every rat, grab a girl, everywhere, around the world |
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They'll be dancing, dancing in the street |
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Way down in Holy Wood, everyday |
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Dancing in the streets |
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Cross in the Aurient too |
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Me and you |
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Dancing in the street |
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Don't you know |
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They'll be dancing |
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Dancing in the street (repeat) |
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The Educated Rodents |
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They appear in one book: |
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The theme dedicated to the rats is Dancing In The Streets by Mick Gager and David Bowie, as amended slightly by me: |