Macavity: The Mystery Cat lyrics

Macavity's a mystery cat

He's called the Hidden Paw

For he's a master criminal

Who can defy the law

He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard

The Flying Squad's despair

For when they reach the scene of crime -

Macavity's not there!

Macavity, Macavity

There's no one like Macavity

He's broken every human law

He breaks the law of gravity

His powers of levitation

Would make a fakir stare

And when you reach the scene of crime -

Macavity's not there!

You may seek him in the basement

You may look up in the air

But I tell you once and once again:

Macavity's not there!

Macavity's a ginger cat

He's very tall and thin

You would know him if you saw him

For his eyes are sunken in

His brow is deeply lined with thought

His head is highly domed

His coat is dusty from neglect

His whiskers are uncombed

He sways his head from side to side

With movements like a snake

And when you think he's half asleep

He's always wide awake!

Macavity, Macavity

There's no one like Macavity

For he's a fiend in feline shape

A monster of depravity

You may meet him in a by-street

You may see him in the square

But when a crime's discovered -

Then Macavity's not there!

He's outwardly respectable

But I know he cheats at cards

And his footprints are not found

In any files of Scotland Yard's

And when the larder's looted

Or the jewelry case is rifled

Or when the milk is missing

Or another Peke's been stifled

Or the greenhouse glass is broken

And the trellis past repair

There's the wonder of the thing:

Macavity's not there!

Macavity, Macavity

There's no one like Macavity

There never was a cat of such

Deceitfulness and suavity

He always has an alibi

And one or two to spare

Whatever time the deed took place -

Macavity wasn't there!

And they say that all the cats

Whose wicked deeds are widely known

(I might mention Mungojerrie

Rumpelteazer, Griddlebone)

Are nothing more than agents

For the cat who all the time

Just controls the operations

The Napoleon of Crime!

Macavity, Macavity

There's no one like Macavity

He's a fiend in feline shape

A monster of depravity

You may meet him in a by-street

You may see him in the square

But when a crime's discovered -

Then Macavity's not there!