In the fantasy sequence "Growltiger's Last Stand," Gus one such triumph, playing the pirate Growltiger. In sequence, Growltiger, a feared feline sea and his amour, Griddlebone, meet an untimely end after a crew of Siamese sailors.
Growltiger was a cat who travelled on a barge In he was the roughest cat that ever roamed at large From Gravesend up to he pursued his evil aims in his title of the "Terror of the Thames"
His manners and appearance did not to please His coat was torn and seedy, it was baggy at the One ear was missing, no need to tell you why And he scowled a hostile world from one forbidding eye
The cottagers of knew something of his fame At Hammersmith and Putney, people at his name would fortify the hen house, lock up the silly goose When the rumor ran along the shore: on the loose!
Woe to the canary that fluttered from its cage Woe to the pampered Pekinese, that Growltiger's rage Woe the bristly bandicoot that lurks on ships And woe to any cat with Growltiger came to grips
But most to of foreign race his hatred had been vowed To cats of foreign name and race, no quarter was The Persian and the Siamese regarded him with it was a Siamese had mauled his missing ear
Now on a peaceful summer night all nature at play The tender moon was bright, the barge at Molsey lay All in the moonlight it lay rocking on the tide And Growltiger was disposed to show his sentimental
In the forepeak of the vessel, Growltiger stood
his attention on the lady Griddlebone And his raffish crew were sleeping in their and their bunks As the Siamese creeping in their sampans and their junks
Growltiger had no eye or ear for but Griddlebone And the lady seemed enraptured by my baritone Disposed to relaxation and no surprise But the moonlight shone reflected from a thousand bright blue
And closer and closer the sampans circled 'round And yet from all the enemy there was not a sound The foe was armed toasting forks and cruel carving knives And the lovers sang their duet in danger of their lives
Oh, how well I the old Bull and Bush Where we to go down of a Sattaday night, Where, when anything happened, it came a rush, For the boss, Mr. Clark, he was polite;
A nice house, from basement to garret A nice house. Ah, but it was the parrot, The parrot, the parrot named M'Caw, That brought all those to the bar. Ah! He was the of the bar.
Of a night, we was all feeling bright, And LaRose, the barmaid that was, She'd say "Billy! Billy M'Caw! Come us, give us a dance on the bar." And Billy would dance on the bar, and Billy dance on the bar.
And then feel balmy, in each eye a tear, And emotion would make us all more beer. Lily, she was a girl what had in her head; She have nothick, no not that much said.
If it to an argument, or a dispute, She'd settle it offhand with the toe of her Or as likely as not put her through your eye. But when we was happy and a bit dry, Or when we was thirsty, and a bit sad, She rap on the bar with that corkscrew she had
And say "Billy! M'Caw! Come us a tune on your pastoral flute!" And strike up on his pastoral flute, And Billy'd up on his pastoral flute. And then we'd balmy, in each eye a tear, And emotion would make us all more beer.
"Billy! M'Caw! Come give us a on your moley guitar!" Billy'd strike up on his guitar, And Billy'd up on his moley guitar. And then we'd balmy, in each eye a tear, And emotion would make us all order beer.
"Billy! M'Caw! Come give us a tune on your guitar!" Ah! He was the of the bar.
Then Genghis gave the signal to his Mongolian hordes Abandoning their sampans, the chinks they swarmed Abandoning their sampans, their pullaways, and They battened the hatches on the crew within their bunks
Then Griddlebone she a screech for she was badly skeered I am sorry to admit it, but she disappeared She probably escaped ease I'm sure she was not drowned But a serried ring of steel Growltiger did surround
The ruthless foe pressed in stubborn rank on rank Growltiger to his vast surprise was forced to the plank He who a hundred victims had driven to drop At the end of all his was forced to go kerflip, kerflop
Oh there was joy in when the news flew through the land At Maidenhead and Henley there was dancing on the Rats were roasted in Brentford and Victoria Dock And a day of was commanded in Bangkok!
These productions are all very well But there's nothing to equal from what I hear That moment of mystery when I made