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Old Deuteronomy

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

All -

"Well, of all...

Things...Can it be...really!...Yes!...No!...

Ho! Hi!

Oh, my eye!

My mind may be wandering, but I confess

I believe it is Old Deuteronomy!"

Munkustrap -

Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time;

He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession.

He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme

A long while before Queen Victoria's accession

Rum Tum Tugger -

Old Deuteronomy's buried nine wives

And more-I am tempted to say, ninety-nine;

And his numerous progeny prospers and thrives

And the village is proud of him in his decline.

Munkustrap -

At the sight of that placid and bland physionomy

When he sits in the sun on the vicarage wall,

The Oldest Inhabitant croaks: "Well, of all...

Things...Can it be...really!...Yes!...No!...

Ho! Hi!

Oh, my eye!

My mind may be wandering, but I confess

I believe it is Old Deuteronomy!"

All -

"Well, of all...

Things...Can it be...really!...Yes!...No!...

Ho! Hi!

Oh, my eye!

My mind may be wandering, but I confess

I believe it is Old Deuteronomy!"

"Well, of all...

Things...Can it be...really!...Yes!...No!...

Ho! Hi!

Oh, my eye!

My mind may be wandering, but I confess

I believe it is Old Deuteronomy!"

(Quaxo -

Old Deuteronomy sits in the street,

He sits in the high street on market day;

The bullocks may bellow, the sheep they may bleat,

But the dogs and the herdsmen will turn them away.

The cars and the lorries run over the kerb,

And the villagers put up a notice: ROAD CLOSED-

So that nothing untoward may chance to disturb

Deuteronomy's rest when he feels so disposed.

Munkustrap -

The digestive repose of that feline's gastronomy

Must never be broken, whatever befall:)

All -

"Well, of all...

Things...Can it be...really!...Yes!...No!...

Ho! Hi!

Oh, my eye!"

Old Deuteronomy -

My legs may be tottery, I must go slow

And be careful of Old Deuteronomy!"


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