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 beneath the stair   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   She tucks up her skirts to the basement to creep      She is deeply concerned with the ways of the mice   Their behavior's not good and their manners 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 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   She thinks that the cockroaches 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 beetle's tattoo      For she's a jolly good fellow   Thank you my dears