《Gus: The Theatre Cat》歌词

歌曲： Gus: The Theatre Cat

所属专辑：Music from Cats

歌手： Cats The Musical

时长： 05:41

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Gus the Theatre Cat - The Theatreland Chorus[00:00:00]

Written by：Lloyd Webber/Eliot[00:00:00]

Gus is the cat at the theatre door[00:00:00]

His name as I ought to have told you before[00:00:06]

Is really asparagus but that's such a fuss[00:00:13]

To pronounce that we usually call him[00:00:19]

Just Gus[00:00:25]

His coat's very shabby[00:00:27]

He's thin as a rake[00:00:30]

And he suffers from palsy that makes his paw shake[00:00:33]

Yet he was in his youth quite the smartest of cats[00:00:39]

But no longer a terror to mice or to rats[00:00:46]

For he isn't the cat that he was in his prime[00:00:53]

Though his name was quite famous he says in his time[00:00:59]

And whenever he joins his friends at their club[00:01:05]

Which takes place at the back of the neighbouring pub[00:01:11]

He loves to regale them if someone else pays[00:01:18]

With anecdotes drawn from his palmiest days[00:01:24]

For he once was a star of the highest degree[00:01:31]

He has acted with Irving he's acted with tree[00:01:36]

And he likes to relate his success on the halls[00:01:43]

Where the gallery once gave him seven catcalls[00:01:49]

But his grandest creation as he loves to tell[00:01:55]

Was Firefrorefiddle the fiend of the fell[00:02:02]

I have played in my time every possible part[00:02:17]

And I used to know seventy speeches by heart[00:02:25]

I'd extemporize backchat[00:02:33]

I knew how to gag[00:02:37]

And I knew how to let the cat out of the bag[00:02:41]

I knew how to act with my back and my tail[00:02:49]

With an hour of rehearsal[00:02:56]

I never could fail[00:02:59]

I'd a voice that would soften the hardest of hearts[00:03:03]

Whether I took the lead or in character parts[00:03:09]

I have sat by the bedside of poor little Nell[00:03:17]

When the curfew was rung then I swung on the bell[00:03:24]

In the pantomime season I never fell flat[00:03:30]

And I once understudied dick Whittington's cat[00:03:36]

But my grandest creation[00:03:42]

As history will tell[00:03:46]

Was Firefrorefiddle the fiend of the fell[00:03:50]

Then if someone will give him a toothful of gin[00:04:04]

He will tell how he once played a part in East Lynne[00:04:09]

At a Shakespeare performance he once walked on pat[00:04:14]

When some actor suggested the need for a cat[00:04:19]

And I say now these kittens[00:04:25]

They do not get trained[00:04:28]

As we did in the days when Victoria reigned[00:04:30]

They never get drilled in a regular troupe[00:04:36]

And they think they are smart[00:04:41]

Just to jump through a hoop[00:04:44]

And he says as he scratches himself with his claws[00:04:48]

Well the theatre is certainly not what it was[00:04:54]

These modern productions are all very well[00:05:00]

But there's nothing to equal from what I hear tell[00:05:07]

That moment of mystery when I made history[00:05:13]

As Firefrorefiddle the fiend of the fell[00:05:23]