Luyện nghe bài hát Gus: The Theatre Cat

Gus is the cat at the theater
His name, as I ought to have told you
Is really Asparagus, but that's such a to pronounce
That we usually call him Gus

His coat's very shabby, he's as a rake
And he suffers from palsy makes his paw shake
For he was in his youth the smartest of cats
But no longer a terror to mice or to

For he isn't the cat that he was in his
Though his was quite famous, he says, in his time
And whenever he joins his at their club
Which takes place at the of the neighboring pub

He loves to regale them, if else pays
With anecdotes drawn from his palmiest
For he once was a star of the highest
He has with Irving, he has acted with Tree

And he likes to relate his success on the
Where the gallery once him seven cat calls
But his grandest as he loves to tell
Was Firefrorefiddle, the fiend of the

I have played in my time every possible
And I used to know speeches by heart
I'd backchat, I knew how to gag
And I how to let the cat out of the bag

I knew how to act with my back and my
With an hour of rehearsal, I could fail
I'd a voice that would soften the of hearts
Whether I the lead, or in character parts

I have sat by the bedside of little Nell
When the curfew was then I swung on the bell
In the season, I never fell flat
And I once understudied Dick cats
But my grandest creation, as will tell
Was Firefrorefiddle, the of the fell

Then, if will give him a toothful of gin
He will tell how he once played a part in East
At a performance he once walked on pat
When some actor the need for a cat

And I say now kittens, they do not get trained
As we did in the days when Victoria
They get drilled in a regular troupe
And they think are smart just to jump through a hoop

And he says as he scratches himself his claws
Well the is certainly not what is was
These productions are all very well
But there's nothing to from what I hear tell
That moment of mystery when I history
As Firefrorefiddle, the fiend of the