Are you blind when you’re born? |
Can you see in the dark?
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Dare you look at a king? |
Would you sit on his throne?
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Can you say of your bite that it’s worse than your bark?
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Are you cock of the walk when you’re walking alone?
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Because jellicles are and jellicles do Jellicles do and jellicles would
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Jellicles would and jellicles can
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Jellicles can and jellicles do When you fall on your head, do you land on your feet?
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Are you tense when you sense there’s a storm in the air?
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Can you find your way blind when you’re lost in the street?
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Do you know how to go to the heaviside layer?
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Because jellicles can and jellicles do Jellicles do and jellicles can
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Jellicles can and jellicles do Jellicles do and jellicles can
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Jellicles can and jellicles do Can you ride on a broomstick to places far distant?
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Familiar with candle, with book, and with bell?
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Were you Whittington’s friend? |
The Pied Piper’s assistant?
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Have you been an alumnus of heaven and hell?
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Are you mean like a minx? |
Are you lean like a lynx?
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Are you keen to be seen when you’re smelling a rat?
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Were you there when the pharaoh commissioned the Sphinx?
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If you were, and you are, you’re a jellicle cat
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Jellicle songs for jellicle cats
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Jellicle songs for jellicle cats
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Jellicle songs for jellicle cats
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Jellicle songs for jellicle cats
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Jellicle songs for jellicle cats
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We can dive through the air like a flying trapeze
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We can turn double somersaults, bounce on a tire
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We can run up a wall, we can swing through the trees
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We can balance on bars, we can walk on a wire
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Jellicles can and jellicles do Jellicles can and jellicles do Jellicles can and jellicles do Jellicles can and jellicles do Jellicle songs for jellicle cats
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Jellicle songs for jellicle cats
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Jellicle songs for jellicle cats
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Jellicle songs for jellicle cats
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Can you sing at the same time in more than one key?
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Duets by Rossini and waltzes by Strauss?
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And can you (as cats do) begin with a 'C'?
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That always triumphantly brings down the house?
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Jellicle cats are queen of the nights
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Singing at astronomical heights
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Handling pieces from the 'Messiah'
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Hallelujah, angelical Choir
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The mystical divinity of unashamed felinity
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Round the cathedral rang 'Vivat'
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Life to the everlasting cat!
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Feline, fearless, faithful and true
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To others who do-what
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Jellicles do and jellicles can
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Jellicles can and jellicles do Jellicle cats sing jellicle chants
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Jellicles old and jellicles new
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Jellicle song and jellicle dance
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Jellicle songs for jellicle cats
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Jellicle songs for jellicle cats
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Jellicle songs for jellicle cats
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Jellicle songs for jellicle cats
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Practical cats, dramatical cats
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Pragmatical cats, fanatical cats
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Oratorical cats, Delphicoracle cats
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Skeptical cats, Dispeptical cats
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Romantical cats, Pedantical cats
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Critical cats, parasitical cats
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Allegorical cats, metaphorical cats
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Statistical cats and mystical cats
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Political cats, hypocritical cats
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Clerical cats, hysterical cats
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Cynical cats, rabbinical cats
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Jellicle songs for jellicle cats
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Jellicle songs for jellicle cats
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Jellicle songs for jellicle cats
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Jellicle songs for jellicle cats
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Jellicle songs for jellicle cats
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But the cats are not alone. |
Humans (the audience) are present
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in the cats’private world. |
The cats are at first reluctant and
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suspicious to include others in their domain.
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There’s a man over there with a look of surprise
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As much as to say well now how about that?
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Do I actually see with my own very eyes
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A man who’s not heard of a jellicle cat?
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MAN:
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What’s a jellicle cat?
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ALL (Echoing):
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What’s a jellicle cat? |