[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:06.09]Gus is the cat at the theatre door [00:12.69]His name as I ought to have told you before [00:19.08]Is really asparagus but that's such a fuss [00:25.53]To pronounce that we usually call him [00:30.96]Just gus [00:34.80]His coat's very shabby [00:37.02]He's thin as a rake [00:39.99]And he suffers from palsy that makes his paw shake [00:46.29]Yet he was in his youth quite the smartest of cats [00:52.80]But no longer a terror to mice or to rats [00:59.88]For he isn't the cat [01:03.18]That he was in his prime [01:06.36]Though his name was quite famous [01:09.99]He says in his time [01:13.26]And whenever he joins his friends at their club [01:19.14]Which takes place at the back of the neighbouring pub [01:26.52]He loves to regale them if someone else pays [01:32.94]With anecdotes drawn from his palmiest days [01:39.24]For he once was a star of the highest degree [01:45.06]He has acted with irving he's acted with tree [01:51.72]And he likes to relate his success on the halls [01:57.48]Where the gallery once gave him seven catcalls [02:04.59]But his grandest creation as he loves to tell [02:13.05]Was firefrorefiddle [02:16.41]The fiend of the fell [02:26.97]I have played in my time [02:31.41]Every possible part [02:35.22]And I used to know seventy speeches by heart [02:43.23]I'd extemporize backchat [02:46.95]I knew how to gag [02:50.55]And I knew [02:51.66]How to let the cat out of the bag [02:58.14]I knew how to act with my back and my tail [03:05.19]With an hour of rehearsal [03:08.67]I never could fail [03:11.91]I'd a voice that would soften the hardest of hearts [03:18.75]Whether I took the lead or in character parts [03:26.58]I have sat by the bedside of poor little nell [03:32.91]When the curfew was rung [03:35.46]Then I swung on the bell [03:39.45]In the pantomime season I never fell flat [03:45.60]And I once understudied d**k whittington's cat [03:52.38]But my grandest creation [03:56.55]As history will tell [04:00.63]Was firefrorefiddle the fiend of the fell [04:15.63]Then if someone will give him a toothful of gin [04:20.85]He will tell how he once played a part [04:24.21]In east lynne [04:25.89]At a shakespeare performance he once walked on pat [04:30.60]When some actor suggested the need for a cat [04:36.18]And I say now these kittens [04:39.84]They do not get trained [04:42.42]As we did in the days when victoria reigned [04:48.87]They never get drilled in a regular troupe [04:54.33]And they think they are smart [04:57.15]Just to jump through a hoop [05:00.54]And he says as he scratches himself with his claws [05:06.45]Well the theatre is certainly not what it was [05:12.93]These modern productions are all very well [05:19.32]But there's nothing to equal from what I hear tell [05:26.76]That moment of mystery when I made history [05:36.48]As firefrorefiddle [05:41.25]The fiend of the fell [05:58.05]I once crossed the stage on a telegraph wire [06:04.68]To rescue a child when a house was on fire [06:11.22]And I think that I still can much better than most [06:18.12]Produce blood curdling noises to bring on the ghost [06:25.29]And I once played growltiger [06:29.22]Could do it again [06:32.88]Could do it again [06:37.29]Could do it again