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How Well Do You Know The Songs From CATS?

Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time
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He's a cat who has lived many lives in succession
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**He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme**
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A long while before Queen Victoria's accession

**Old Deuteronomy!**

He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme

Can you sing at the same time in more than one key
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Duets by Rossini and waltzes by Strauss
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And can you (as cats do) begin with a C
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**That always triumphantly brings down the house**

**Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats!**

That always triumphantly brings down the house

For the joint has gone from the oven like that!"
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The family will say, "It's that horrible cat!
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It was Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer!"
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**And most of the time they left it at that**

**Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer!**

And most of the time they left it at that

When you let me in, then I want to go out
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**I'm always on the wrong side of every door**
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And as soon as I'm at home, then I'd like to get about
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I like to lie in the bureau drawer

**The Rum Tum Tugger!**

I'm always on the wrong side of every door

Sunlight through
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The trees in summer
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**Endless mascarading**

**Memory!**

All day she sits upon the stair or on the steps or on the mat
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**She sits and sits and sits and sits**
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And that's what makes a Gumbie Cat

**The Old Gumbie Cat!**

We're quiet enough in the morning hours
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We're quiet enough in the afternoon
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**Reserving our terpsichorean powers**
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To dance by the light of the Jellicle Moon

**The Jellicle Ball!**

He is quiet and small
He is black
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From the ears to the tip of his tail
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He can creep through the tiniest crack
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**He can walk on the narrowest rail**

**Mr. Mistoffelees!**

But I'm so well preserved because I've observed
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All my life a routine, and I'd say
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**I am still in my prime, I shall last out my time**
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That's the word from the stoutest of cats

**Bustopher Jones!**

I am still in my prime, I shall last out my time

**At eleven forty-two with the signal overdue**
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And the passengers all frantic to a man
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That's when I would appear and I'd saunter to the rear
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I'd been busy in the luggage van!

**Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat!**

At Eleven forty-two with the signal overdue

**And the postman sighed as he scratched his head**
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You merely have thought she ought to be dead
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And who would ever suppose that cat was Grizabella, the Glamour cat

**Grizabella: The Glamour Cat!**

And the postman sighed as he scratched his head

When you notice a cat in profound meditation
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The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
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**His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation**
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Of the thought,
Of the thought,
Of the thought
of his name

**The Naming Of Cats!**

His mind is engaged in rapt contemplation

I knew how to act with my back and my tail
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With an hour of rehearsal I never could fail
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**I'd a voice that would soften the hardest of hearts**
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Whether I took the lead or in character parts

**Gus: The Theatre Cat!**

I'd a voice that would soften the hardest of hearts

He sways his head from side to side
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With movements like a snake
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**And when you think he's half asleep
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He's always wide awake!**

**Macavity: The Mystery Cat!**

And when you think he's half asleep, he's always wide awake

You might need to brush up your whiskers on your lyrics!

**The Moments of Sadness**

**So this is this and that is that...**

**Did you take a little cat nap during the show?**

They each have three names and you definitely got more than three right!

**You almost named ALL of the CATS!**

You named all of the cats! A new life is awaiting you!

**You're off to the Heaviside Layer!**

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