Gus: The Theatre Cat - Susan Jane Tanner/John Mills.mp3

[00:07.54]Gus is the cat at the theatre door
[00:13.12]His name is l ought to have told you before
[00:18.58]ls really Asparagus
[00:21.81]but that's such a fuss to pronounce
[00:25.60]That we usually call him just Gus
[00:31.54]His coat's very shabby. He's thin as a rake
[00:37.10]And he suffers from palsy that makes his paw shake
[00:42.67]Yet he was in his youth, quite the smartest of cats
[00:48.40]But no longer a terror to mice or to rats
[00:55.50]For he isn't the cat that he was in his prime
[01:00.30]Though his name was quiet famous, he says in his time
[01:06.89]And when ever he joins his friends at their club
[01:12.80]Which takes place at the back of the neighboring pub
[01:17.73]He loves to regale them if someone else pays
[01:23.63]With anecdotes drawn from his palmist days
[01:28.74]For he once was a star of the highest degree
[01:33.80]He has acted with lrving
[01:36.80]he has acted with Tree
[01:40.16]And he likes to relate his success on the halls
[01:45.28]Where the gallery once gave him seven cat calls
[01:51.85]But his grandest creation as he loves to tell
[02:00.53]was Firefrofiddle, the fiend of the fell
[02:16.11]l have played in my time every possible part
[02:26.48]And l used to know seventy speeches by heart
[02:33.30]l'd extemporise back chat l knew how to gag
[02:40.94]And l knew how to let the cat out of the bag
[02:46.57]l knew how to act with my back and my tail
[02:53.15]With an hour of rehearsal l never could fail
[02:59.60]l'd a voice that would soften the hardest of hearts
[03:05.10]Whether l took the lead
[03:08.21]Or in character parts
[03:12.30]l have sat by the bedside of poor little Nell
[03:17.69]When the curfew was rung, then l swung on the bell
[03:22.68]ln the pantomime season l never fell flat
[03:26.98]And l once under-studied Dick Whittington's cat
[03:33.16]But the grandest creation as history will tell
[03:40.82]was Firefrofiddle, the fiend of the fell
[03:52.29]Then if someone will give him a toothful of gin
[03:56.63]He will tell how he once play a part in East Lynne .
[04:01.36]At a Shakespeare performance he once walked on pat
[04:05.39]When some actor suggested the need for a cat
[04:11.59]And l say that these kittens
[04:14.44]They do not get trained as we did in the days
[04:16.81]When Victoria reigned
[04:22.38]They never get drilled in a regular troupe
[04:27.10]And they think they are smart just to jump through a hoop
[04:31.98]And he says as he scratches himself with his claws
[04:37.90]Well, the theatre is certainly not what it was
[04:45.10]These modern productions are all very well
[04:50.66]But there's nothing to equal from what l hear tell
[04:57.56]That moment of mystery
[05:02.43]When l made history as Firefrofiddle
[05:11.75]the fiend of the fell《
[05:25.40]These modern productions are all very well
[05:34.14]But there's nothing to equal from what l hear tell
[05:42.54]That moment of mystery
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