《Gus the Theatre Cat》歌词

[00:00:00] Gus the Theatre Cat - The Theatreland Chorus

[00:00:00] Written by：Lloyd Webber/Eliot

[00:00:00] Gus is the cat at the theatre door

[00:00:06] His name as I ought to have told you before

[00:00:13] Is really asparagus but that's such a fuss

[00:00:19] To pronounce that we usually call him

[00:00:25] Just Gus

[00:00:27] His coat's very shabby

[00:00:30] He's thin as a rake

[00:00:33] And he suffers from palsy that makes his paw shake

[00:00:39] Yet he was in his youth quite the smartest of cats

[00:00:46] But no longer a terror to mice or to rats

[00:00:53] For he isn't the cat that he was in his prime

[00:00:59] Though his name was quite famous he says in his time

[00:01:05] And whenever he joins his friends at their club

[00:01:11] Which takes place at the back of the neighbouring pub

[00:01:18] He loves to regale them if someone else pays

[00:01:24] With anecdotes drawn from his palmiest days

[00:01:31] For he once was a star of the highest degree

[00:01:36] He has acted with Irving he's acted with tree

[00:01:43] And he likes to relate his success on the halls

[00:01:49] Where the gallery once gave him seven catcalls

[00:01:55] But his grandest creation as he loves to tell

[00:02:02] Was Firefrorefiddle the fiend of the fell

[00:02:17] I have played in my time every possible part

[00:02:25] And I used to know seventy speeches by heart

[00:02:33] I'd extemporize backchat

[00:02:37] I knew how to gag

[00:02:41] And I knew how to let the cat out of the bag

[00:02:49] I knew how to act with my back and my tail

[00:02:56] With an hour of rehearsal

[00:02:59] I never could fail

[00:03:03] I'd a voice that would soften the hardest of hearts

[00:03:09] Whether I took the lead or in character parts

[00:03:17] I have sat by the bedside of poor little Nell

[00:03:24] When the curfew was rung then I swung on the bell

[00:03:30] In the pantomime season I never fell flat

[00:03:36] And I once understudied dick Whittington's cat

[00:03:42] But my grandest creation

[00:03:46] As history will tell

[00:03:50] Was Firefrorefiddle the fiend of the fell

[00:04:04] Then if someone will give him a toothful of gin

[00:04:09] He will tell how he once played a part in East Lynne

[00:04:14] At a Shakespeare performance he once walked on pat

[00:04:19] When some actor suggested the need for a cat

[00:04:24] And I say now these kittens

[00:04:28] They do not get trained

[00:04:30] As we did in the days when Victoria reigned

[00:04:36] They never get drilled in a regular troupe

[00:04:41] And they think they are smart

[00:04:44] Just to jump through a hoop

[00:04:48] And he says as he scratches himself with his claws

[00:04:54] Well the theatre is certainly not what it was

[00:05:00] These modern productions are all very well

[00:05:07] But there's nothing to equal from what I hear tell

[00:05:13] That moment of mystery when I made history

[00:05:23] As Firefrorefiddle the fiend of the fell