The Old Gumbie Cat

I have a gumbie cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots

Her coat is of the tabby kind with tiger stripes and leopard spots

All day she sits upon the stairs or on the step or on the mat

She sits and sits and sits and sits and that's what makes a gumbie cat

That's what makes a gumbie cat

But when the day's hustle and bustle is done

Then the gumbie cat's work is but hardly begun

And when all the family's in bed and asleep

I tuck up my skirts, to the basement to creep

I am deeply concerned with the ways of the mice

Their behavior's not good and their manner's not nice

So when I have got them lined up on the matting

I teach them music, crocheting and tatting

I have a gumbie cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots

The curtain cord she likes to wind and tie it into sailor knots

She sits upon the windowsill or anything that's smooth and flat

She sits and sits and sits and sits and that's what makes a gumbie cat

That's what makes a gumbie cat

But when the day's hustle and bustle is done

Then the gumbie cat's work is but hardly begun

I think that the cockroaches need employment

To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment

So I formed from that lot of disorderly louts

A troop of well disciplined helpful boy scouts

With a purpose in life and a good deed to do

And I've even created a beetles tattoo

(So for old gumbie cats, let's now give three cheers)

(On the well-ordered households)

(Dependable years, three cheers, three cheers, three cheers)

Thank you my dears