(SUNG) We have an extensive reputation, we make our home in Victoria Grove
This is merely our center of operation for we are incurably given to rove
(SUNG) Then the cook would appear from behind the scenes
And say in a voice that was broken with sorrow
I'm afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrow
The joint has gone from the oven like that!
Then the family would say, It's that horrible cat!
Was it Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer!
And most of the time they left it at that
