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SONG: The Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles ARTIST: Andrew Lloyd Webber From the musical, Cats Jellicle cats meet once a year on the night we make the Jellicle choice and now that the Jellicle leader is here Jellicle cats can all rejoice A - E/G# - Bm - E - A D - D/E Of the awful battle of the pekes and the pollicles Together with some account Of the participation of the pugs and the poms And the intervention of the great Rumpus Cat!!! Fm
The Fmpekes and the pollicles everyone knows Fm C7/F - Fm - Are a proud and implacable passionate foes C7/F Fm - It is always the same whereever one goes And the FmPugs and the Poms although most people say Fm C7/F - Fm - That they do not like fighting yet once in a way C7/F - C7/F Fm They will now and again join into the fray and they Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark E/B - Fm/C - C7 - Fm - Until you could hear them all over the park and they Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark E/B - Fm/C - C7 - Fm - Until you could hear them all over the park
Now Fmon the occassion of Fmwhich I shall speak Fm C7/F - Fm - Almost nothing had happened for nearly a week C7/F - C7/F - C7/F - Fm - And that's a long time for a Pol or a Peke The Fmbig police dog was aFmway from his beat Fm C7/F - Fm - I don't know the reason but most people think C7/F - C7/F - C7/F - Fm - He slipped into the Wellington Arms for a drink And A#mno one

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as aG#bout on

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the C#str

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eet When a F#Peke an

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d a C7Polli

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cle Fmhappened to meet They A#mdid no

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or eG#xactl

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at But they F#glared a

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t each C7other and scraped their hind feet and they started to Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark E/B - Fm/C - C7 - Fm - Until you could hear them all over the park
Now the FmPeke although people may Fmsay what they please Fm C7/F - Fm - Is no British dog but a heathen Chinese And Fmso all the Pekes when they Fmheard the uproar Fm C7/F - Fm - Some came to the window, some came to the door C7/F Fm - There were surely a dozen more likely a score And A#mtogether

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they D#starte

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d to G#grumble

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and C#whe

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eze In their F#huffe

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ry-C7snuff

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ery Fmheathen Chinese But a A#mterrib

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le D#din is

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what G#Pollic

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les C#lik

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e For your F#Polli

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cle C#dog is

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a Fmdour Yorkshire tyke
A# - F7/A#-A# There are dogs out of every nation
the FIrish,

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the C7Welsh an

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d the FDane: The G#Russian, the Dutch, the DalD#matian, A# - A#/D - D# - D#/F - and even from China and Spain. A# - F7/A# - A# The Poodle, the Pom, the Alsatian And the FMastiff

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who C7walks o

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n a Fch

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aiD#n.

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And to A#/Dthose tha

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t are F7frisky

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and A#frolical, A# G#/A# Let my meaning be perfectly plain:
A# - F7/A# - A# That my name it is little Tom Pollicle,
and you'd A#better

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not G#do i

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t aA#gain!" And his Fmbraw Scottish cousins are snappers and biters And every dog-jack of them notable fighters And so they stepped out with their pipers in order Playing "When the Blue Bonnets Come Over The Border"
A# A# (2 bars) G#/A# A# (2 bars) A# - G#
Then the FmPugs and the Poms held no Fmlonger aloof Fm C7/F - Fm But some from the balcony some from the roof joined into the din with a Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark E/B - Fm/C - C7 - Fm - Until you could hear them all over the park Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark E/B - Fm/C - C7 - Fm - Until you could hear them all over the park
Now Fmwhen these bold hereos together assembled Fm C7/F - Fm - The traffic all stopped and the underground trembled And Fmsome of the neighbours were so much afraid Fm C7/F - Fm - That they started to ring up the Fire Brigade! When A#msudde

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nly D#up fro

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m a G#small ba

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sement C#fla

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t F# - C7 D#--G# Why who should stalk out but the Great Rumpus Cat!!!! His eyes were like fireballs fearfully blazing He gave a great yawn and his jaws were amazing And when he looked out through the bars of the area You never saw anything fiercer.... ...Or hairier
And Fmwhat with a glare of his Fmeyes and his yawning The Pekes and the Pollicles C/Fquickly

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took Fwa

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rning He Fmlooked at the sky and he Fmgave a great leap And they Fmevery last one of them C/Fscattered

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like Fmshe

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ep!
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e PoD#lice d

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og reG#turned

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to his C#bea

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t E/B - Fm/C - C7 - Fm There wasn't a single one left on the street!
E/B---E/B - Fm/C All hail and all power to the Great Rumpus Cat!!!! Fm F#/F Jellicle cats and dogs all must D#/F Fm Pollicle dogs and cats all must
Like C#undertakers F#7come to dust (Macavity)