The+Mystery+Cat


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 * ==Macavity - the Mystery Cat ==

Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw  - For he's the 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!

Mcavity'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; <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">His coat is dusty from neglect, his whiskers are uncombed. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">He sways his head from side to side, with movements like a snake <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">; <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">And when you think he's half asleep, he's always wide awake.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">For he's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the square - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">But when a crime's discovered, then Macavity's not there!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">He's outwardly respectable. (They say he cheats at cards.) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">And his footprints are not found in any file of Scotland Yard's. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">And when the larder's looted, or the jewel-case is rifled, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Or when the milk is missing, or another Peke's been stifled, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Or the greenhouse glass is broken, and the trellis past repair - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Ay, there's the wonder of the thing! Macavity's not there!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">And when the Foreign Office find a Treaty's gone astray, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Or the Admiralty lose some plans and drawings by the way, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">There may be a scrap of paper in the hall or on the stair - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">But it's useless to investigate - Mcavity's not there! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">And when the loss has been disclosed, the Secret Service say: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">`It must have been Macavity!' - but he's a mile away. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">You'll be sure to find him resting, or a-licking of his thumbs, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Or engaged in doing complicated long-division sums.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">He always has an alibi, and one or two to spaer: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">At whatever time the deed took place - MACAVITY WASN'T THERE! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">And they say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">(I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime! || Rhyme: Two or more words with endings that are similar or the same in sound.

Repetition: A word or phrase repeated for emphasis.

Simile: A comparison of two things using like or as.

|| == <span style="font-family: arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Like a Rock == Bob Seger

Stood there boldly Sweatin' in the sun Felt like a million Felt like number one The height of summer I'd never felt that strong Like a rock

I was eighteen Didn't have a care Working for peanuts Not a dime to spare But I was lean and Solid everywhere Like a rock

My hands were steady My eyes were clear and bright My walk had purpose My steps were quick and light And I held firmly To what I felt was right Like a rock

Like a rock, I was strong as I could be Like a rock , nothin' ever got to me Like a rock , I was something to see Like a rock

And I stood arrow straight Unencumbered by the weight Of all these hustlers and their schemes I stood proud, I stood tall High above it all I still believed in my dreams

Twenty years now Where'd they go? Twenty years I don't know Sit and I wonder sometimes Where they've gone

And sometimes late at night When I'm bathed in the firelight The moon comes callin' a ghostly white And I recall I Recall

Like a rock. standin' arrow straight Like a rock, chargin' from the gate Like a rock, carryin' the weight Like a rock

Like a rock, the sun upon my skin Like a rock, hard against the wind Like a rock, I see myself again Like a rock ||