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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Performer
Original Cast of "Cats"
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Composer
T.S. Eliot
Songwriter
Trevor Nunn
Songwriter
Richard Stilgoe
Songwriter
David Cullen
Orchestrator
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Executive Producer
David Hamilton Smith
Recording Engineer
Lyrics
The naming of cats is a difficult matter
It isn't just one of your holiday games
You may think at first, I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you a cat must have three different names
First of all, there's the name that the family use daily
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James
Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey
But all of them are sensible, everyday names
There are fancier names, if you think they sound sweeter
Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames
Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter
But all of them sensible, everyday names
But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular
A name that's peculiar and more dignified
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular?
Or spread out his whiskers or cherish his pride?
Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo or Coricopat
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum
Names that never belong to more than one cat
But above and beyond there's still one name left over
And that is the name that you will never guess
The name that no human research can discover
But the cat himself knows and will never confess
When you notice a cat in profound meditation
The reason, I tell you, is always the same
His mind is engaged in rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought
Of the thought of his name
His ineffable, effable, effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular name
Name, name, name, name, name, name
Writer(s): Andrew Lloyd Webber, T. S. Eliot
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