Magingery's a mystery cat

Magingery's a mystery cat

She's called the hidden tail

For she's not a master criminal

Who can't walk on a rail

She's the bafflement of the backyard

The flying birds despair

For when we reach the scene of crime

Magingery's probably there.

Magingery, Magingery, there's no cat like Magingery

She's not broken any human law

And don't know the laws of gravity

Her powers of not moving would a fakir bored

And when you reach the scene of crime

Magingery's is there.

You may seek her in a basement

But I don't think in the air

But I tell you once and once again

Magingery is there!

Magingery's ginger cat

She's not that tall but thin

You wouldn't know her if your saw her

Her eyes aren't sunken in

Her brow is never lined in thought

Her head is highly held

Her coat is shiny from shampoo

Her whiskers have been belled

She sways her head from side to side

With moments like a duck

And when you think she's half asleep

She usually always is

Magingery, Magingery there's someone like Magingery

For she's a devil in a disguise

A monster of no gravity

You won't meet in her in a by-street

You might meet her in a square

But when a crime's discovered then

Magingery is there!

She's outwardly respectable

I know she doesn't play cards

And her pawprints are found in every file of Scotland Yard

And when the lard is looted

Or the jewel case is rifled

Or when the milk is missing

Or another peke's stifled!

Or the greenhouse glass is cracked

And the trellis was repaired

There's the wonder of the thing –

Magingery is there!

Magingery, Magingery, there's someone like Magingery

There never was a cat of deceitfulness and strangeity

She never has an alibi and some food left to spare

And every time the deed took place,

Magingery was there!

And they say that all the cats whose house-hold deeds are widely know

I might mention Mungorosie*

I might mention Slivabella**

Are nothing more than enemies

For the cat who all the time

Just destroys their operations –

The Magingery of crime!

Magingery, Magingery, there's someone like Magingery

She's a fiend in feline shape
A monster of insanity
You won't meet her in a by-street
You might meet her in the square
But when a crime's discovered then Magingery

Magingery

Magingery
Magingery

When a crime's discovered then Magingery 's is there!

We have to find Old Neuteronomy^

* - Mungorosie, me.

** - Slivabella – Sylvia, one of my cats IRL (in real life)

^ - Me and Magic's demented sense of humour

Disclaimer: Magingery, name and cat is © of Mungorosie and Magic.

"Macavity the Mystery Cat" is © of Andrew Lloyd Webber and T.S. Eliot

The name Mungorosie is © Mary, my good friend, and the cat is © of me

Magic, name and cat, is © of Jessi, my best friend.