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The Rum Tum Tugger

by T.S. Eliot

The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat:
If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse.
If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat,
If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house.
If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat,
If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse.
Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat--
And there isn't any call for me to shout it:
For he will do
As he do do
And there's no doing anything about it!

The Rum Tum Tugger is a terrible bore:
When you let him in, then he wants to be out;
He's always on the wrong side of every door,
And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.
He likes to lie in the bureau drawer,
But he makes such a fuss if he can't get out.

Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat--
And there isn't any use for you to doubt it:
For he will do
As he do do
And there's no doing anything about it!

The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious beast:
His disobliging ways are a matter of habit.
If you offer him fish then he always wants a feast;
When there isn't any fish then he won't eat rabbit.
If you offer him cream then he sniffs and sneers,
For he only likes what he finds for himself;

So you'll catch him in it right up to the ears,
If you put it away on the larder shelf.
The Rum Tum Tugger is artful and knowing,
The Rum Tum Tugger doesn't care for a cuddle;
But he'll leap on your lap in the middle of your sewing,
For there's nothing he enjoys like a horrible muddle.
Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat--
And there isn't any need for me to spout it:
For he will do
As he do do
And theres no doing anything about it!


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  Poems by T.S. Eliot
  1. Ash Wednesday
  2. Aunt Helen
  3. A Cooking Egg
  4. Burbank With A Baedeker Bleistein With A
  5. Bustopher Jones The Cat About Town
  6. Four Quartets 1 Burnt Norton
  7. Four Quartets 2 East Coker
  8. Four Quartets 3 The Dry Salvages
  9. Four Quartets 4 Little Gidding
  10. Growltigers Last Stand
  11. Gus The Theatre Cat
  12. Journey Of The Magi
  13. La Figlia Che Piange The Weeping Girl
  14. Macavity The Mystery Cat
  15. Morning At The Window
  16. Mr Mistoffelees
  17. Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer
  18. Old Deuteronomy
  19. Preludes
  20. Rhapsody On A Windy Night
  21. Skimbleshanks The Railway Cat
  22. Sweeney Among The Nightingales
  23. The Ad-Dressing Of Cats
  24. The Boston Evening Transcript
  25. The Hollow Men
  26. The Love Song Of J Alfred Prufrock
  27. The Naming Of Cats
  28. The Old Gumbie Cat
  29. The Rum Tum Tugger
  30. The Song Of The Jellicles
 
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  Thomas Flatman 
  Thomas Gray 
  Thomas Hardy 
  Thomas Otway 
  Thomas Warton 
  Tony Harrison 

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