**Differences in brackets are taken from the original London cast recording and have since been cut.**

Demeter -

Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw-

For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.

He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's

despair:

For when they reach the scene of crime-Macavity's not

there!

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,

He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.

His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,

And when you reach the scene of crime of crime-Macavity's not

there!

You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the

air-

But I tell you once and once again, Macavity's not there!

Bombalurina -

Macavity's a ginger cat, he's very tall and thin;

You would know him if you saw him, for his eyes are sunken

in.

His brow is deeply lined with thought, his head is highly

domed;

His coat is dusty from neglect, his whiskers are uncombed.

He sways his head from side to side, with movements like a

snake;

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

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,

For he's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity.

You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the

square-

But when a crime's discovered, then Macavity's not there!

Demeter -

He's outwardly respectable.

Bombalurina -

I know he cheats at cards.

Demeter -

And his footprints are not found in any files of Scotland

Yard's.

Bombalurina -

And when the larder's looted,

Demeter -

or the jewel-case is rifled,

Bombalurina -

Or when the milk is missing,

Demeter -

or another Peke's been stifled,

Bombalurina -

Or the greenhouse glass is broken,

Demeter -

and the trellis past

repair-

Both -

There's the wonder of the thing!

Macavity's not there!

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,

There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity.

He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:

Whatever time the deed took place-

MACAVITY WASN'T

THERE!

And they say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely

known

Demeter -

I might mention Mungojerrie, (Rumpelteazer)

Bombalurina -

I might mention Griddle-bone

Both -

Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time

Just controls the operations:

The Napoleon of Crime!

All queens -

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,

For he's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity.

You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the

square-

But when a crime's discovered, then Macavity, Macavity, Macavity, MACAVITY

When a crime's discovered, then

Demeter and Bombalurina-

Macavity's not there.