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・Gus: The Theatre Cat Lyrics

[JELLYLORUM]
Gus is the Cat at the theatre door
His name, as I ought to have told you before
Is really Asparagus, but that's such 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
Yet 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 has acted with Tree
And he likes to relate his success on the halls
Where the gallery once gave him seven cat calls
But his greatest creation as he loves to tell
Was Firefrorefiddle, the Fiend of the Fell
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[GUS]
I have played in my time every possible part
And I used to know seventy speeches by heart
I'd extemporize *1 backchat *2 , I knew how to gag
*1 https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries *2.com/definition/english/extemporize
*2 軽いからかいの軽妙な言葉(light teasing repartee)

And I knew how to let the cat out of the bag
* 3 the cat out of the bag https://www.google.com/search?q=out+of+the+bag+%E6%…ent=safari

https://www.google.com/search?q=out+of+the+bag+%E6%…ent=safari

I knew 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 'earts
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

[JELLYLORUM]
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

[GUS]
And I say now, these kittens, they do not get trained
As we did in the days when Victoria reigned
And they never get drilled in a regular troupe
And they think they are smart just to jump through a hoop


[JELLYLORUM]
And he says as he scratches himself with his claws

[GUS]
Well the theatre is certainly not what it was
These modern productions, they're 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

I once crossed the stage on a telegraph wire
To rescue a child when a house was on fire
And I think that I still can, much better than most
Produce bloodcurdling noises to bring on the ghost
And I once played Growltiger
Could do it again
Could do it again
Could do it again

◇ How to pronounce
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・asparagus https://dictionary.cambridge.org/ja/pronunciation/e…/asparagus
・fuss　https://dictionary.cambridge.org/ja/dictionary/engl…anese/fuss

◇ The Company* – Cats
・https://www.discogs.com/release/2451476-The-Company-Cats

◇ 解釈
・「Gusは自らの衰えを悟りつつも、かつての栄光を語り、人生の幕引きを待つ姿が描かれています。 」　https://www.google.com/search?q=Gus%3A+The+Theatre+…ent=safari
・「「Gus: The Theatre Cat」
ガスの衣擦れの音とか　すごくいいし、
ミストフェリーズが「大ファンです」と握手しに来るところも　泣いちゃう。
歌詞の「Fell」はこれまでのCDの対訳では「地獄」だったけど、「荒地」になってて、T.S.エリオットの『荒地』へのリスペクト！

本来この曲は他の猫のリードで歌われ　ガスは半分くらいしか歌わない曲ですが、
今回は全部自分で歌う。
本来この次に来るはずの「Growltiger」は今回カットで、
うちにあるDVD（公式が全部YOUTUBEに出している！）も　カットされており、
わたくしが1989年に英語劇部（中学部活）で上演したときも　カットでした。」　https://ameblo.jp/odashimatokue/entry-12572235092.html

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・拙訳Ｔ・Ｓ・エリオット「劇場猫「ガースー」」my poor translation of "Gus: the Theatre Cat" by T. S. Eliot　http://eiji-takagi.cocolog-nifty.com/notebook/2023/…75ef3.html

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