《Gus，The Theatre Cat》歌词

[00:00:00] gus: the theatre cat - andrew lloyd weber

[00:00:01] 作词：t. s. eliot

[00:00:06] gus is the cat at the theatre door

[00:00:12] his name as i ought to have told you before

[00:00:19] is really asparagus but that's such a fuss

[00:00:25] to pronounce that we usually call him

[00:00:31] just gus

[00:00:33] his coat's very shabby

[00:00:37] he's thin as a rake

[00:00:40] and he suffers from palsy that makes his paw shake

[00:00:46] yet he was in his youth quite the smartest of cats

[00:00:52] but no longer a terror to mice or to rats

[00:00:59] for he isn't the cat

[00:01:03] that he was in his prime

[00:01:06] though his name was quite famous

[00:01:10] he says in his time

[00:01:13] and whenever he joins his friends at their club

[00:01:19] which takes place at the back of the neighbouring pub

[00:01:26] he loves to regale them if someone else pays

[00:01:33] with anecdotes drawn from his palmiest days

[00:01:39] for he once was a star of the highest degree

[00:01:45] he has acted with irving he's acted with tree

[00:01:51] and he likes to relate his success on the halls

[00:01:57] where the gallery once gave him seven catcalls

[00:02:04] but his grandest creation as he loves to tell

[00:02:12] was firefrorefiddle

[00:02:16] the fiend of the fell

[00:02:27] i have played in my time

[00:02:31] every possible part

[00:02:35] and i used to know seventy speeches by heart

[00:02:43] i'd extemporize backchat

[00:02:47] i knew how to gag

[00:02:50] and i knew

[00:02:51] how to let the cat out of the bag

[00:02:58] i knew how to act with my back and my tail

[00:03:05] with an hour of rehearsal

[00:03:08] i never could fail

[00:03:11] i'd a voice that would soften the hardest of hearts

[00:03:18] whether i took the lead or in character parts

[00:03:26] i have sat by the bedside of poor little nell

[00:03:33] when the curfew was rung

[00:03:35] then i swung on the bell

[00:03:39] in the pantomime season i never fell flat

[00:03:45] and i once understudied dick whittington's cat

[00:03:52] but my grandest creation

[00:03:56] as history will tell

[00:04:00] was firefrorefiddle the fiend of the fell

[00:04:15] then if someone will give him a toothful of gin

[00:04:20] he will tell how he once played a part

[00:04:24] in east lynne

[00:04:25] at a shakespeare performance he once walked on pat

[00:04:30] when some actor suggested the need for a cat

[00:04:36] and i say now these kittens

[00:04:39] they do not get trained

[00:04:42] as we did in the days when victoria reigned

[00:04:48] they never get drilled in a regular troupe

[00:04:54] and they think they are smart

[00:04:57] just to jump through a hoop

[00:05:00] and he says as he scratches himself with his claws

[00:05:06] well the theatre is certainly not what it was

[00:05:12] these modern productions are all very well

[00:05:19] but there's nothing to equal from what i hear tell

[00:05:26] that moment of mystery when i made history

[00:05:36] as firefrorefiddle

[00:05:41] the fiend of the fell

[00:05:58] i once crossed the stage on a telegraph wire

[00:06:04] to rescue a child when a house was on fire

[00:06:11] and i think that i still can much better than most

[00:06:17] produce blood-curdling noises to bring on the ghost

[00:06:25] and i once played growltiger

[00:06:29] could do it again

[00:06:32] could do it again

[00:06:37] could do it again