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Skimbleshanks the cat
The cat of the train

There's a whisper the line at eleven thirty-nine
When the Night ready to depart
Saying, "Skimble, is Skimble?
Has he to hunt the thimble?
We must find him or the can't start"

All the and all the porters
And the master's daughters
Would be high and low
Saying, "Skimble, where is
For unless very nimble
Then the Night Mail just go"

At eleven with the signal overdue
And the all frantic to a man
That's when I appear and I'd saunter to the rear
I'd been busy in the van

Then he gave one of his glass-green eyes
And the signal 'All clear'
be off at last for the northern part
of the Northern

Skimbleshanks, the cat
The cat of the train

You say that by and large
It was me who was in
Of the Car Express
From the driver and the
To the bagmen cards
I would supervise them all, more or

Down the corridor he and examines all the faces
Of the travelers in the first and the
He establishes by a regular patrol
And he'd at once if anything occurred

He would you without winking
And he saw what you thinking
And it's certain that he didn't
Of hilarity and riot so that folk very quiet
When Skimble was and on the move

You could play no pranks Skimbleshanks
He's a cat couldn't be ignored
So nothing went on the Northern Mail
Skimbleshanks was aboard

It was very pleasant when they'd found their den
With name written up on the door
And the berth was very neat with a folded sheet
And not a speck of upon the floor

was every sort of light, you could make it dark or bright
And a button you could turn to make a
And a funny little basin you're supposed to wash your in
And a crank to the window should you sneeze

Then the guard looked in politely and ask you very brightly
"Do you like your morning tea or strong?"
But I was right behind him and was to remind him
For Skimble let anything go wrong

When crept into their cosy berth
And pulled up the
They all could reflect, it was very nice
To know that they wouldn't be bothered by
can leave all that to the railway cat
The cat of the train

Skimbleshanks, the cat
The cat of the railway

In the watches of the night, I was always fresh and
Every now and then I'd a cup of tea
With perhaps a drop of Scotch I was keepin' on the watch
Only stopping here and there to a flea

They were fast asleep at and so they never knew
That I was walkin' up and down the
They were sleeping all the while I was busy at
I met the station master with elation

They see me at Dumfries if I summoned by police
If there was anything they ought to know
they got to Gallowgate there they did not have to wait
For would help them to get out

And he gives you a of his long, brown tail
says "I'll see you again"
You meet without fail on the Midnight Mail
The cat of the railway

You will meet without on the Midnight Mail
The cat of the train