Gus is the cat at the theatre door His name is l ought to have told you before ls really Asparagus but that's such a fuss to pronounce That we usually call him just Gus His coat's very shabby. He's thin as a rake And he suffers from palsy that makes his paw shake Yet he was in his youth, quite the smartest of cats But no longer a terror to mice or to rats For he isn't the cat that he was in his prime Though his name was quiet famous, he says in his time And when ever he joins his friends at their club Which takes place at the back of the neighboring pub He loves to regale them if someone else pays With anecdotes drawn from his palmist days For he once was a star of the highest degree He has acted with lrving he has acted with Tree And he likes to relate his success on the halls Where the gallery once gave him seven cat calls But his grandest creation as he loves to tell was Firefrofiddle, the fiend of the fell l have played in my time every possible part And l used to know seventy speeches by heart l'd extemporise back chat l knew how to gag And l knew how to let the cat out of the bag l knew how to act with my back and my tail With an hour of rehearsal l never could fail l'd a voice that would soften the hardest of hearts Whether l took the lead Or in character parts l have sat by the bedside of poor little Nell When the curfew was rung, then l swung on the bell ln the pantomime season l never fell flat And l once under-studied Dick Whittington's cat But the grandest creation as history will tell was Firefrofiddle, the fiend of the fell Then if someone will give him a toothful of gin
At a Shakespeare performance he once walked on pat When some actor suggested the need for a cat And l say that these kittens They do not get trained as we did in the days When Victoria reigned They never get drilled in a regular troupe And they think they are smart just to jump through a hoop And he says as he scratches himself with his claws Well, the theatre is certainly not what it was These modern productions are all very well But there's nothing to equal from what l hear tell That moment of mystery When l made history as Firefrofiddle the fiend of the fell《 These modern productions are all very well But there's nothing to equal from what l hear tell That moment of mystery
[00:07.54]Gus is the cat at the theatre door [00:13.12]His name is l ought to have told you before [00:18.58]ls really Asparagus [00:21.81]but that's such a fuss to pronounce [00:25.60]That we usually call him just Gus [00:31.54]His coat's very shabby. He's thin as a rake [00:37.10]And he suffers from palsy that makes his paw shake [00:42.67]Yet he was in his youth, quite the smartest of cats [00:48.40]But no longer a terror to mice or to rats [00:55.50]For he isn't the cat that he was in his prime [01:00.30]Though his name was quiet famous, he says in his time [01:06.89]And when ever he joins his friends at their club [01:12.80]Which takes place at the back of the neighboring pub [01:17.73]He loves to regale them if someone else pays [01:23.63]With anecdotes drawn from his palmist days [01:28.74]For he once was a star of the highest degree [01:33.80]He has acted with lrving [01:36.80]he has acted with Tree [01:40.16]And he likes to relate his success on the halls [01:45.28]Where the gallery once gave him seven cat calls [01:51.85]But his grandest creation as he loves to tell [02:00.53]was Firefrofiddle, the fiend of the fell [02:16.11]l have played in my time every possible part [02:26.48]And l used to know seventy speeches by heart [02:33.30]l'd extemporise back chat l knew how to gag [02:40.94]And l knew how to let the cat out of the bag [02:46.57]l knew how to act with my back and my tail [02:53.15]With an hour of rehearsal l never could fail [02:59.60]l'd a voice that would soften the hardest of hearts [03:05.10]Whether l took the lead [03:08.21]Or in character parts [03:12.30]l have sat by the bedside of poor little Nell [03:17.69]When the curfew was rung, then l swung on the bell [03:22.68]ln the pantomime season l never fell flat [03:26.98]And l once under-studied Dick Whittington's cat [03:33.16]But the grandest creation as history will tell [03:40.82]was Firefrofiddle, the fiend of the fell [03:52.29]Then if someone will give him a toothful of gin [03:56.63] [04:01.36]At a Shakespeare performance he once walked on pat [04:05.39]When some actor suggested the need for a cat [04:11.59]And l say that these kittens [04:14.44]They do not get trained as we did in the days [04:16.81]When Victoria reigned [04:22.38]They never get drilled in a regular troupe [04:27.10]And they think they are smart just to jump through a hoop [04:31.98]And he says as he scratches himself with his claws [04:37.90]Well, the theatre is certainly not what it was [04:45.10]These modern productions are all very well [04:50.66]But there's nothing to equal from what l hear tell [04:57.56]That moment of mystery [05:02.43]When l made history as Firefrofiddle [05:11.75]the fiend of the fell《 [05:25.40]These modern productions are all very well [05:34.14]But there's nothing to equal from what l hear tell [05:42.54]That moment of mystery [05:48.10]
