Bustopher
Jones is not skin and bones,
in fact he's remarkably fat.
He doesn't haunt pubs,
he has eight or nine clubs,
for he's the St. James's Street Cat.
He's the cat we all greet
as he walks down the street
in his coat of fastidious black.
No commonplace mousers
have such well -cut trousers
or such an impeccable back.
In the whole of St. James
is the smartest of names
is the name of this rabble of cats.
An d we're all of us
proud to be nodded
or bowed to by Buster for
Jones in white spats.
In the Hall of St. James
is the smartest of names,
is the name of this proud old cast.
And we're all of us proud to be nodded or bowed
to by Buster for Jones in white spats.
My visits are occasional to
the Senior Educational,
and it is against the rules for any one cat
To belong birthed to that
and adjoined superior scrolls
For a singular reason,
when game is in season
I'm found not at Fox's, Blimp's
I am frequently seen
at the Gate's staging screen
Which is famous for winkles and schnips
In the season of venison
I give my venison
To the pot until succulent burns
An d just before lunch
Not a moment too soon
To drop in for a drink at the cross
When I'm seen in a hurry,
there's probably curry at the Siamese
or at the Glutton.
If I look full of gloom,
then I've lunched at the tomb on cabbage,
rice, pudding an d mutton.
In the whole of St. James,
as the smartest of names,
is the name of this Bravo of cats.
And we're all of us proud to be lauded or
bowed to by Buster the Jones in white.
Buster the Jones in white.
Buster the Jones in white spats.
So much in this way passes
Bustopher's day,
at one club or another he's found.
It can be no surprise
that under our eyes
he has grown unmistakably round.
He's a twenty -five pounder.
Oh, I am the bounder.
And he's putting on weight every day.
But I'm so well -preserved,
because I've observed
All my life, a routine,
and I'd say
I am still in my prime,
I shall last out my time
That's the word from this stoutest of cats
It must and it shall be spring in Carmel
While Buster the Jones wears white,
Buster the Jones wears white,
Buster the Jones wears white spats!