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Andrew Lloyd Webber - The Naming of Cats
The naming of cats is a difficult matter
It isn't just one of your holiday games
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you a cat must have three different names
First of all there's the name that the family use daily
Such as Peter Augustus Alonzo or James
Such as Victor or Jonathan George or Bill Baily -
All of them sensible everyday names
There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter
Some for the gentlemen some for the dames
Such as Plato Admetus Electra Demeter -
But all of them sensible everyday names
But I tell you a cat needs a name that's particular
A name that's peculiar and more dignified
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular
Or spread out his whiskers or cherish his pride
Of names of this kind I can give you a quorum
Such as Munkustrap Quaxo or Coricopat
Such as Bombalurina or else Jellylorum -
Names that never belong to more than one cat
But above and beyond there's still one name left over
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover
But the cat himself knows and will never confess
When you notice a cat in profound meditation
The reason I tell you is always the same
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought of the thought of the thought of his name
His ineffable effable effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular name
Name name name name name name