SONG: The Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles
ARTIST: Andrew Lloyd Webber
From the musical, Cats
Jellicle cats meet once a year
on the night we make the Jellicle choice and
now that the Jellicle leader is here
Jellicle cats can all rejoice
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A
D - D/E
Of the awful battle of the pekes and the pollicles
Together with some account Of the participation of the pugs and the poms
And the intervention of the great Rumpus Cat!!!
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Fm
The pekes and the pollicles everyone knows
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Are a proud and implacable passionate foes
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It is always the same whereever one goes
Fm
And the Pugs and the Poms although most people say
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That they do not like fighting yet once in a way
C7/F - C7/F Fm
They will now and again join into the fray and they
Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark
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Until you could hear them all over the park and they
Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark
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Until you could hear them all over the park
Fm Fm
Now on the occassion of which I shall speak
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Almost nothing had happened for nearly a week
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And that's a long time for a Pol or a Peke
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The big police dog was away from his beat
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I don't know the reason but most people think
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He slipped into the Wellington Arms for a drink
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And no one at all was about on the street
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When a Peke and a Pollicle happened to meet
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They did not advance or exactly retreat
F# - C7
But they glared at each other and scraped their hind feet and they started to
Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark
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Until you could hear them all over the park
Fm Fm
Now the Peke although people may say what they please
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Is no British dog but a heathen Chinese
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And so all the Pekes when they heard the uproar
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Some came to the window, some came to the door
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There were surely a dozen more likely a score
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And together they started to grumble and wheeze
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In their huffery-snuffery heathen Chinese
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But a terrible din is what Pollicles like
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For your Pollicle dog is a dour Yorkshire tyke
A# - F7/A#-A#
There are dogs out of every nation
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the Irish, the Welsh and the Dane:
G# D#
The Russian, the Dutch, the Dalmatian,
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and even from China and Spain.
A# - F7/A# - A#
The Poodle, the Pom, the Alsatian
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And the Mastiff who walks on a chain.
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And to those that are frisky and frolical,
A# G#/A#
Let my meaning be perfectly plain:
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That my name it is little Tom Pollicle,
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and you'd better not do it again!"
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And his braw Scottish cousins are snappers and biters
And every dog-jack of them notable fighters
And so they stepped out with their pipers in order
Playing "When the Blue Bonnets Come Over The Border"
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A# (2 bars)
G#/A#
A# (2 bars)
A# - G#
Fm Fm
Then the Pugs and the Poms held no longer aloof
Fm C7/F - Fm
But some from the balcony some from the roof joined into the din with a
Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark
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Until you could hear them all over the park
Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark
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Until you could hear them all over the park
Fm
Now when these bold hereos together assembled
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The traffic all stopped and the underground trembled
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And some of the neighbours were so much afraid
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That they started to ring up the Fire Brigade!
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When suddenly up from a small basement flat
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Why who should stalk out but the Great Rumpus Cat!!!!
His eyes were like fireballs fearfully blazing
He gave a great yawn and his jaws were amazing
And when he looked out through the bars of the area
You never saw anything fiercer....
...Or hairier
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And what with a glare of his eyes and his yawning
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The Pekes and the Pollicles quickly took warning
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He looked at the sky and he gave a great leap
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And they every last one of them scattered like sheep!
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Fm
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A#m - D# - G# - C# -
And when the Police dog returned to his beat
E/B - Fm/C - C7 - Fm
There wasn't a single one left on the street!
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All hail and all power to the Great Rumpus Cat!!!!
Fm F#/F
Jellicle cats and dogs all must
D#/F Fm
Pollicle dogs and cats all must
C# F#7
Like undertakers come to dust
(Macavity)
