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Munkustrap

Jellicle Cats meet once a year

On the night we make the Jellicle Choice

And now that the Jellicle Leader is here,

Jellicle Cats can all rejoice!



Of the awful battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles

Together with some account

Of the participation

Of the Pugs and the Poms, and the intervention of the Great Rumpus Cat



The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows,

Are proud and implacable, passionate foes;

It is always the same, wherever one goes

And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people say

That they do not like fighting. Yet, once in a way,

They now and again join into the fray

And they:



All

Bark Bark Bark Bark

Bark Bark Bark Bark



Munkustrap

Until you could hear them all over the park



Now on the occasion of which I shall speak

Almost nothing had happened for nearly a week

(And that's a long time for a Pol or a Peke).

The big Police Dog was away from his beat -

I don't know the reason, but most people think

He slipped into the Wellington Arms for a drink -

And no one at all was about on the street

When a Peke and a Pollicle happened to meet.

They did not advance, or exactly retreat,

But they glared at each other, and scraped their hind feet,

And they:



Peke

Bark



Pollicle

Bark



Peke

Bark



Pollicle

Bark

Bark



Peke

Bark



Pollicle

Bark



Peke

Bark



Munkustrap

Until you could hear them all over the park



And they:



Pekes

Bark



Pollicles

Bark



Pekes

Bark



Pollicles

Bark

Bark



Pekes

Bark



Pollicles

Bark



Pekes

Bark



Munkustrap

Until you could hear them all over the park



Now the Peke, although most people may say what they please,

Is no British Dog, but Heathen Chinese

And so all the Pekes, when they heard the uproar,

Some came to the window, some came to the door;

There was surely a dozen, more likely a score.

And together they started to grumble and wheeze

In their huffery-snuffery Heathen Chinese.

But a terrible din is what Pollicles like,

For your Pollicle Dog is a Doryorkshire tyke,



Pollicles

There were dogs out of every nation

The Irish, the Welsh, and the Dane

The Russian, the Dutch, the Dalmation

And even from China and Spain

From the poodle, the balmy Alstation

And the Basset who growls on the train



Munkustrap

And to those that are frisky and frollicle

That my mean be perfectly plain



Pollicles

That my name is Little Tom Pollicle

And you better not do it again!



Munkustrap

And his braw Scottish cousins are snappers and biters,

And ever dog-jack of them notable fighters;

and so they stepped out with their pipers in order,

Playing When the Blue Bonnets Came Over the Border

Then the Pugs and the Poms held no longer aloof,

But some from the balcony, some from the roof,

Joined in

To the din

With a:



All

Bark Bark Bark Bark

Bark Bark Bark Bark



Munkustrap

Until you could hear them all over the park



All

Huffery-snuffery, huffery-snuffery,

Huffery-snuffery, huffery-snuff!



Munkustrap

Until you could hear them all over the park.



All

(Barking)



Munkustrap

NO!!



When these bold heroes together assembled,

The traffic all stopped, and the Underground trembled,

And some of the neighbors were so much afraid

That they started to ring up the Fire Brigade.

When suddenly up from a small basement flat.

Why who should stalk out but,



All

The Great Rumpus Cat!



Munkustrap

His eyes were like fireballs fearfully blazing,

He gave a great yawn, and his jaws were amazing;

And when he looked out through the bars of the area,

You never saw anything fiercer or hairier.

What with the glare of his eyes and his yawning,

The Pekes and the Pollicles quickly took warning.

He looked to the sky and he gave a great leap -

And they every last one of them scattered like sheep.



And when the Police Dog returned to his beat,

There wasn't a single one left on the street.



All

All hail and all bow to the Great Rumpus Cat!



Old Deuteronomy

Jellicle Cats and Dogs all must

Pollicle Dogs and Cats all must

Like undertakers, come to dust!



The action is intruded by yet another crash from the villainous Macavity, which sends the cats scurrying! Old Deuteronomy soothes them, as they come back one by one. It is time for "The Jellicle Ball," the great yearly dance in which all of the cats celebrate