Cats
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- 1998
- 115 min
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Are you blind when you're born?
Can you see in the dark?
Can you look at a king?
Would you sit on his throne?
Can you say of your bite
That it's worse than your bark?
Are you cock of the walk
When you're walking alone?
Because Jellicles are
And Jellicles do
Jellicles do and Jellicles would
Jellicles would and Jellicles can
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
When you fall on your head
Do you land on your feet?
Are you tense when you sense
There's a storm in the air?
Can you find your way blind
When you're lost in the street?
Do you know how to go
To the Heaviside Layer?
Because Jellicles can
And Jellicles do
Jellicles do and Jellicles can
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicles do and Jellicles can
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Can you ride on a broomstick
To places far distant?
Familiar with candle
With book and with bell?
Were you Whittington's friend?
The Pied Piper's assistant?
Have you been an alumnus
Of heaven and hell?
Are you mean like a minx?
Are you lean like a lynx?
Are you keen to be seen
When you're smelling a rat?
Were you there when the pharaohs
Commissioned the Sphinx?
If you were, and you are
You're a Jellicle Cat
Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
We can dive through the air
Like a flying trapeze
We can turn double somersaults
Bounce on a tyre
We can run up a wall
We can swing through the trees
We can balance on bars
We can walk on a wire
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
Can you sing at the same time
In more than one key
Duets by Rossini
And waltzes by Strauss?
And can you, as cats do
Begin with a "c"?
That always triumphantly
Brings down the house
Jellicle Cats
Are queens of the night
Singing at astronomical heights
Handling pieces from The Messiah
Hallelujah, angelical choir
Jellicle Cats
Are queens of the night
Singing at astronomical heights
Handling pieces from The Messiah
Hallelujah, angelical choir
The mystical divinity
Of unashamed felinity
Round the cathedral
Rang vivat
Life to the everlasting cat
Feline, fearless
Faithful and true
To others who do what
Jellicles do and Jellicles can
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicle Cats sing Jellicle Chants
Jellicles old and Jellicles new
Jellicle Song and Jellicle dance
Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
Practical cats, dramatical cats
Pragmatical cats, fanatical cats
Oratorical cats,
Delphic-Oracle cats
Sceptical cats, dyspeptical cats
Romantical cats, pedantical cats
Critical and parasitical cats
Allegorical cats, metaphorical cats
Statistical cats and mystical cats
Political cats, hypocritical cats
Clerical cats, hysterical cats
Cynical cats, rabbinical cats
Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
There's a man over there
With a look of surprise
As much as to say
Well, now, how about that?
Do I actually see
With my own very eyes
A man who's not heard
Of a Jellicle Cat?
What's a Jellicle Cat?
What's a Jellicle Cat?
What's a Jellicle Cat?
The naming of cats
Is a difficult matter
It isn't just one
Of your holiday games
You may think at first
I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you a cat
Must have three different names
First of all there's the name
That the family use daily
Such as Peter, Augustus
Alonzo or James
Such as Victor or Jonathan
George or Bill Bailey
All of them
Sensible, everyday names
There are fancier names
If you think they sound sweeter
Some for the gentlemen
Some for the dames
Such as Plato, Admetus
Electra, Demeter
But all of them sensible
Everyday names
But I tell you, a cat
Needs a name that's particular
A name that's peculiar
And more dignified
Else how can he keep up
His tail perpendicular
Or spread out his whiskers
Or cherish his pride?
Of names of this kind
I can give you a quorum
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo
Or Coricopat
Such as Bombalurina
Or else, Jellylorum
Names that never belong
To more than one cat
But above and beyond
There's still one name left over
And that is the name
That you never will guess
The name that no human research
Can discover
But the cat himself knows
And will never confess
When you notice a cat
In profound meditation
The reason, I tell you,
Is always the same
His mind is engaged
In a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought
Of the thought of his name
His ineffable
Effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable
Singular
Name... Name... Name... Name...
Jellicle Cats come out tonight
Jellicle Cats come one, come all
The Jellicle Moon is shining bright
Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball
Jellicle Cats come out tonight
Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball
Jellicle Cats meet once a year
At the Jellicle Ball
Where we all rejoice
And the Jellicle Leader
Will soon appear
And make what is known
As the Jellicle Choice
When Old Deuteronomy
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