Gus: the theatre cat
Brightman Sarah

Brightman Sarah

Surrender, The Unexpected Songs

Gus: the theatre cat

(with Sir John Gielgud)

Sarah

Gus is the cat at the theatre door

His name, as I ought to have told you before

Is really Asparagus, but that's a fuss to pronounce

That we usually call him just Gus

His coat's very shabby, he's thin as a rake

And he suffers from palsy that makes his paw shake

For he was in his youth quite the smartest of cats

But no longer a terror to mice or to rats


For he isn't the cat that he was in his prime

Though his name was quite famous, he says, in his time

And whenever he joins his friends at their club

(Which takes place at the back of the neighbouring pub)

He loves to regale them, if someone else pays

With anecdotes drawn from his palmiest days

For he once was a star of the highest degree

He has acted with Irving, he's acted with Tree

And he likes to relate his success on the halls

Where the gallery once gave him seven cat calls

But his grandest creation as he loves to tell

Was Firefrorefiddle, the fiend of the fell



Sir John

I have played in my time every possible part

And I used to know seventy speeches by heart

I'd extemporize backchat, I knew how to gag

And I knew how to let the cat out of the bag

I knew how to act with my back and my tail


With an hour of rehearsal, I never could fail

I'd a voice that would soften the hardest of hearts

Whether I took the lead, or in character parts

I have sat by the bedside of poor little Nell

When the curfew was rung then I swung on the bell

In the pantomime season, I never fell flat

And I once understudied Dick Whittington's cat

But my grandest creation, as history will tell

was Firefrorefiddle, the fiend of the fell


Sarah

Then, if someone will give him a toothful of gin

He will tell how he once played a part in East Lynne

At a Shakespeare performance he once walked on pat

When some actor suggested the need for a cat


Sir John

And I say now these kittens, they do not get trained

As we did in the days when Victoria reigned

They never get drilled in a regular troupe

And they think they are smart just to jump through a hoop


Sarah

And he says as he scratches himself with his claws


Sir John

Well the theatre is certainly not what is was

These modern productions are all very well

But there's nothing to equal from what I hear tell

That moment of mystery when I made history

As Firefrorefiddle, the fiend of the fell


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  A question of honour   A whiter shade of pale   Alhambra   All I ask of you   Alleluja   Amigos para siempre   Another suitcase in another hall   Anything but lonely   Anytime, anywhere   Ave Maria   Away from you   Baïlèro   Chanson d'enfance   Chi il bel sogno di Doretta   Come you not from Newcastle?   Dans la nuit   Dear Harp of my Country!   Deliver me   Desert rose   Dive   Do you wanna be loved   Don't cry for me Argentina   Don't give up   Dreamers   Dust in the wind   Early one morning   Eden   En Aranjuez con tu amor   Everything's alright   Figlio perduto   Fileuse   First of May   First of May -- 1999 live version   Fly   Ghost in the machinery   Gloomy Sunday   Guardami   Half a moment   He doesn't see me   He moved through the fair   Heaven is here   Here with me   Hijo de la luna   Him   How can heaven love me -- PeCh remix   How can heaven love me -- video version   How can heaven love you   How fare this spot   How sweet the answer   Hurry home   I am going to like it here   I lost my heart to a starship trooper   I loved you   I remember   If I ever fall in love again   If love were all   Il mio cuore va   In pace   In Paradisum   In trutina   Island   Johnny wanna live   Just show me how to love you   La belle est au jardin d'amour   La califfa   La luna   La lune   La mer   La Wally   Lascia ch'io pianga   Little Sir William   Lud's wedding   Macavity: the mystery cat   Meadowlark   Memory   Moon river   Mr. Monotony   Murder in Mairyland Park   Naturaleza muerta   Nella fantasia   Nessun dorma   No llores por mí Argentina   No one like you   O can ye sew cushions?   O mio babbino caro   O Waly, Waly   Oft in the stilly night   Oliver Cromwell   On the Nile   Once in a lifetime   Once in a lifetime -- 1996 ballad version   Once in a lifetime -- 1996 remix   Only an ocean away   Pie Jesu   Pie Jesu (solo version)   Quand j'étais chez mon père   Rain   Regnava nel silenzio   Scarborough Fair   Seven seas   She doesn't see him   Ship of fools   Silent heart   So many things   Solo con te   Solveig's song   Something in the air   Somewhere   Starship trooper -- 1998 remix   Summertime   Surrender   Sweet Polly Oliver   Tú   Tú quieres volver   Tell me on a Sunday   The Ash Grove   The fly   The last rose of summer   The last words you said   The Last Words You Said S_*   The music of the night   The phantom of the opera   The Plough Boy   The same thing to you   The second element   The second element II   The Second Element II I_*   The trees they grow so high   The unexpected song   There for me   Think Of Me   This love   Three-cornered tune   Time to say goodbye -- Sarah's solo version   Un jour il viendra   Voici le Printemps   What makes me love him?   When it rains in America   Whistle down the wind   Who wants to live forever   Why   Winter in July   Winter light   You take my breath away

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