[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:00.66]Gus is the cat at the theatre door [00:07.02]His name as I ought to have told you before [00:13.38]Is really Asparagus [00:17.07]And that's such a fuss to pronounce [00:21.22]That we usually call him just Gus [00:28.07]His coat's very shabby  he's thin as a rake [00:34.28]And he suffers from palsy that [00:37.82]Makes his paw shake [00:40.58]Yet he was in his youth quite the smartest of cats [00:47.17]But no longer a terror to mice or to rats [00:54.20]For he isn't bry cat that he was in his prime [01:00.68]Though his name was quite famous [01:04.26]He says  in his time [01:07.63]And whenever he joins his friends at their club [01:13.60]Which takes place at the [01:15.58]Back of the neighboring pub [01:20.83]He loves to regale them  if someone else pays [01:27.18]With anecdotes drawn from his palmiest days [01:33.58]For he once was a star of the highest degree [01:39.39]He has acted with Irving  he's acted with Tree [01:46.05]And he likes to relate his success on the halls [01:51.84]Where the gallery once gave him seven cat calls [01:59.11]But his greatest creation as he loves to tell [02:06.60]Will's Firefrorefiddle  the Fiend of the Fell [02:21.30]I have played in my time every possible part [02:29.67]And I used to know seventy speeches by heart [02:37.53]I'd extemporize backchat  I knew how to gag [02:45.05]And I knew how to let the cat out of the bag [02:52.58]I knew how to act with my back and my tail [02:59.54]With an hour of rehearsal  I never could fail [03:06.22]I'd a voice that would [03:08.41]Soften the hardest of hearts [03:13.40]Whether I took the lead  or in character parts [03:21.03]I have sat by the bedside of poor little Nell [03:27.52]When the curfew was rung [03:30.06]Then I swung on the bell [03:33.97]In the pantomime season I never fell flat [03:40.11]And I once understudied Dick Whittington's cat [03:46.96]But my greatest creation  as history will tell [03:55.08]Was Firefrorefiddle  the Fiend of the Fell [04:10.24]And someone will give him a toothful of gin [04:15.40]He will tell how he once played [04:18.01]A part in East Lynne [04:20.24]At a Shakespeare [04:21.66]Performance he once walked on pat [04:25.27]When some actor suggested the need for a cat [04:30.89]And I say now these kittens [04:34.44]They do not get trained [04:36.96]As we did in the days when Victoria reigned [04:43.22]And never get drilled in a regular troupe [04:49.00]And they think they are smart [04:51.64]Just to jump through a hoop [04:55.12]And he says as he scratches himself with his claws [05:01.27]Well the theatre is certainly not what it was [05:07.38]These modern productions are all very well [05:13.61]But there's nothing to equal [05:17.62]From what I hear tell [05:21.36]That moment of mystery when I made history [05:31.15]As Firefrorefiddle  the Fiend of the Fell