The Invitation to the Jellicle Ball | The Old Gumbie Cat
The Rum Tum Tugger | Grizabella
Bustopher Jones | Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
Are you blind when you're born? Can you see in the dark?
Because Jellicles are and Jellicles do
When you fall on your head, do you land on your feet?
Because Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Can you ride on a broomstick to places far distant?
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
We can dive through the air like a flying trapeze
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Can you sing at the same time in more than one key
Jellicle cats are queen of the nights
The mystical divinity of unashamed felinity
Jellicles do and Jellicles can
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Practical cats, dramatical cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
There's a man over there with a look of surprise,
Dare 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?
Jellicles do and Jellicles would
Jellicles would and Jellicles can
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
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?
Jellicles do and Jellicles can
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicles do and Jellicles can
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
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 or hell?
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
We can turn double somersaults, bounce on a tire
We can run up the 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
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Duets by Rossini and waltzes by Strauss
And can you (as cats do) begin with a C
That always triumphantly brings down the house
Singing at astronomical heights
Handling pieces from the Messiah
Hallelujah, angelical choir
Round the cathedral rang "Vivat!"
Life to the everlasting cat!
Feline, fearless, faithful and true
To others who do what
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
Pragmatical cats, fanatical cats
Oratorical cats, delphioracle cats
Skeptical cats, dispeptical cats
Romantical cats, pedantical cats
Critical cats, parasitical cats
Allegorical cats, metaphorical cats
Statistical cats and mystical cats
Political cats, hypocritical cats
Clerical cats, hysterical cats
Cynical cats, rabbinical cats
Jellicle bells that Jellicles ring
Jellicle sharps and Jellicle flats
Jellicle songs that Jellicles sing
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
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?
The naming of cats is a difficult matter
First of all, there's the name that the family use daily
There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter
But I tell you a cat needs a name that's particular
Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum
But above and beyond there's still one name left over
When you notice a cat in profound meditation
His ineffable effable effanineffable
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
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James
Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey
All of them sensible, everyday names
Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames
Such as Plato, Admetas, Electra, Demeter
But all of them sensible everyday names
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?
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo or Coricopat
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum
Names that never belong to more than one cat
And that is the name that you never will guess
The name that no human research can discover
But the at himself knows, and will never confess
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
Deep and inscrutable singular name
Jellicle Cats come out tonight
Jellicle Cats come out tonight
Jellicle Cats are white and black
Jellicle Cats have moonlit eyes
We're quiet enough in the morning hours
Jellicle Cats meet once a year
Who will it be?
Jellicle Cats come one come all
The Jellicle moon is shining bright
Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball
Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball
Jellicle Cats are of moderate size
Jellicles jump like a jumping jack
We're quiet enough in the afternoon
Reserving our terpsichorean powers
To dance by the light of the Jellicle Moon
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, just before dawn
Through a silence you feel you could cut with a knife
Announces the cat who can now be reborn
And come back to a different Jellicle Life
For waiting up there is the Heaviside Layer
Full of wonders one Jellicle only will see
And Jellicles ask because Jellices dare:
Who will it be?
