Tonalité : D major
Verse 1
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Gus is the cat at the theater door
Em
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D
His name, as I ought to have told you before,
G
Is really asparagus,
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Bm
Em
but that's such a fuss to pronounce
G
that we usually call him just Gus.
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His coat's very shabby,
F#
Bm
he's thin as a rake,
Em
A
and he suffers from palsy
D
that makes his pores shake.
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D
Yet he was in his youth
F#
Bm
quite the smartest of cat s,
Em
A
though no longer a terror
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D
To mice an d to rats.
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D
For he isn't the cat
Em
D
that he was in his prime.
G
D
Though his name was quite famous,
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Bm
he says, in his time.
Em
D
And whenever he joins his
Em
friends at the club,
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G
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Which takes place at the back
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Bm
of the neighboring pub,
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D
He loves to regale them if someone else pays,
Em
A
With anecdotes drawn
D
from his palmiest days.
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For he once was a star
Em
of the highest degree,
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G
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He has acted with arming,
Bm
he has acted with tree
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G
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and he likes to relate his success of the halls
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D
F#
Bm
where the gallery once gave him seven cat calls
Em
but his grandest creation
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Bm
as he loves to tell
Em
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D
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D
was fire fro fiddle the fiend of the fell
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D
I have played in my time
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Bm
every possible part,
Em
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and I used to know seventy
D
speeches by heart.
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I'd ex temporize backchat,
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Bm
I knew how to gag,
Em
A
and I knew how to let the
G
D
cat out of the bag.
G
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I knew how to act
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Bm
with my back and my tail.
Em
A
With an hour of rehearsal
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I never could fail.
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Bm
I'd a voice that would soften
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F#
Bm
the hardest of hearts.
Em
Whether I I took the lead,
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D
or in character parts,
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Bm
D
I have sat by the bedside
Em
of poor little Nell.
D
Em
When the curfew was rung,
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Bm
then I swung on the bell.
Em
In the pantomime season,
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G
I never fell flat,
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Em
D
And I once understudied Dick
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Bm
Whittington's cat.
Em
But my grandest creation,
A
Bm
as his tory will tell,
Em
G
Was fire -throw -fiddle,
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G
C
G
D
G
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D
the Fiend of the Fell.
Then if someone will give him
a toothful of gin,
Em
A
He will tell how he once played
D
a part in East Lynn.
At a Shakespeare performance
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D
he once walked on pat,
Bm
When some actor suggested
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Em
A
the need for a cat.
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And I say, love, these kittens,
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Em
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they do not get trained
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D
As we did in the days
Bm
when Victoria reigned
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D
Em
They never get drilled in a regular troop
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G
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And they think they are smart
Bm
just to jump through a hoop
And he says,
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as he scratches himsel
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f with his claws,
Em
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Well, the theatre is certainly
D
not what it was.
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These modern productions
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Em
D
are all very well,
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But there's nothing to equal
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Bm
from what I hear tell.
Em
That moment of mystery
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Bm
when I made history
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A
As fire -floor fiddle,
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the fiend of the fell. you
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