I have a gumbie cat in mind

Her name is Jennyanydots

Her coat is of the tabby kind

With tiger strips and leopard spots

All day she sits beneath the stairs

  Or on the steps or on the mat

She sit and sit and sit and sit

And that’s what makes a gumbie cat

That’s what makes a gumbie cat

But when the day hustle and bustle is done

Then the gumbie cat’s work

is bit hardly began

And when all the family’s in bed asleep

She tucks up her skirt

to the basement to creep

She is deeply concerned

with the ways of the mice

Their behavior’s not good

  And their manner’s not nice

So when she has got them

  Lined up on the matting

She teaches them

  Music, crocheting and tatting

I have a gumbie cat in mind

Her name is Jennyanydots

The curtain card she like 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 hustle and bustle is done

Then the gumbie cat works

is but hardly begun

She thinks that the cockroaches

just need employment

To prevent them from

  Idle and wanton destroyment

So she’s 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 she’s even created a beetles tattoo

For she’s a jolly good fellow

Thank you, my dear

在我的心中有隻老甘比貓

她的名字叫Jennyanydots

她的皮毛是虎斑似的

有著老虎的條紋及豹子的花點

她整天就是坐在樓梯底下

或是階梯上或是坐墊上

她坐著坐著坐著坐著

那就成了一隻甘比貓了

那就成了一隻甘比貓了

但在混亂繁忙的白天過去後

甘比貓的工作

　就要辛苦地開始了

當所有家人都在床上睡著時

她就塞起她的裙子

　在地下室爬行

她深切的關注著

　老鼠們的行為

他們的行為不好

　以及禮貌不佳

所以當她抓到他們時

　會把他們排在坐墊上

她會教導他們

　音樂，針織和梭織

在我的心中有隻甘比貓

她的名字是Jennyanydots

她喜歡繞那些窗簾繩子

　並把它打成水手結

她坐在窗檯上

　或是任何平坦光滑的地方

她坐著坐著坐著坐著

那就成了一隻甘比貓了

那就成了一隻甘比貓了

但

在混亂繁忙的白天過去後

甘比貓的工作

　就要辛苦地開始了

她認為那些蟑螂們

　都需要就業

以防止他們

　閒盪及胡亂破壞

因此她集合起

　那些毫無紀律的東西

成為一支紀律嚴明

　有用的男童軍

有了生命的意義

　以及好的目標做事

她甚至創立了一支甲蟲軍團(2)

而她是一位老好人

謝謝，我的親愛