SOLO: 

Are you blind when you're born? Can you see in the dark? 

Dare you look at a king? Would you sit on his throne? 

Can you say of your bite that it's worse than your bark? 

Are you cock of the walk when you're walking alone? 



Because jellicles are and jellicles do 

Jellicles do and jellicles would 

Jellicles would and jellicles can 

Jellicles can and jellicles do 



When you fall on your head, do you land on your feet? 

Are you tense when you sense there's a storm in the air? 

Can you find your way blind when you're lost in the street? 

Do you know how to go to the heaviside layer? 

Because jellicles can and jellicles do 



Jellicles do and jellicles can 

Jellicles can and jellicles do 

Jellicles do and jellicles can 

Jellicles can and jellicles do 



Can you ride on a broomstick to places far distant? 

Familiar with candle, with book, and with bell? 

Were you Whittington's friend? The Pied Piper's assistant? 

Have you been an alumnus of heaven and hell? 



Are you mean like a minx? Are you lean like a lynx? 

Are you keen to be seen when you're smelling a rat? 

Were you there when the pharaoh commissioned the Sphinx? 

If you were, and you are, you're a jellicle cat 



Jellicle songs for jellicle cats 

Jellicle songs for jellicle cats 

Jellicle songs for jellicle cats 

Jellicle songs for jellicle cats 

Jellicle songs for jellicle cats 



We can dive through the air like a flying trapeze 

We can turn double somersaults, bounce on a tire 

We can run up a wall, we can swing through the trees 

We can balance on bars, we can walk on a wire 



Jellicles can and jellicles do 

Jellicles can and jellicles do 

Jellicles can and jellicles do 

Jellicles can and jellicles do 

Jellicle songs for jellicle cats 

Jellicle songs for jellicle cats 

Jellicle songs for jellicle cats 

Jellicle songs for jellicle cats 



Can you sing at the same time in more than one key? 

Duets by Rossini and waltzes by Strauss? 

And can you (as cats do) begin with a 'C'? 

That always triumphantly brings down the house? 



Jellicle cats are queen of the nights 

Singing at astronomical heights 

Handling pieces from the 'Messiah' 

Hallelujah, angelical Choir 



The mystical divinity of unashamed felinity 

Round the cathedral rang 'Vivat' 

Life to the everlasting cat! 



Feline, fearless, faithful and true 

To others who do-what 



Jellicles do and jellicles can 

Jellicles can and jellicles do 

Jellicle cats sing jellicle chants 

Jellicles old and jellicles new 

Jellicle song and jellicle dance 

Jellicle songs for jellicle cats 

Jellicle songs for jellicle cats 

Jellicle songs for jellicle cats 

Jellicle songs for jellicle cats 



Practical cats, dramatical cats 

Pragmatical cats, fanatical cats 

Oratorical cats, Delphicoracle cats 

Skeptical cats, Dispeptical cats 

Romantical cats, Pedantical cats 

Critical cats, parasitical cats 

Allegorical cats, metaphorical cats 

Statistical cats and mystical cats 

Political cats, hypocritical cats 

Clerical cats, hysterical cats 

Cynical cats, rabbinical cats 



Jellicle songs for jellicle cats 

Jellicle songs for jellicle cats 

Jellicle songs for jellicle cats 

Jellicle songs for jellicle cats 

Jellicle songs for jellicle cats 



But the cats are not alone. Humans (the audience) are present 

in the cats' private world. The cats are at first reluctant and 

suspicious to include others in their domain. 



SOLO: 

There's a man over there with a look of surprise 

As much as to say well now how about that? 

Do I actually see with my own very eyes 

A man who's not heard of a jellicle cat? 



MAN: 

What's a jellicle cat? 



ALL (Echoing): 

What's a jellicle cat?