... & The Mouse Police Never Sleeps Lyrics by Jethro Tull
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Muscled, black with steel-green eye
Swishing through the rye grass
With thoughts of mouse-and-apple pie.
Tail balancing at half-mast.
...and the mouse police never sleeps ---
Lying in the cherry tree.
Savage bed foot-warmer of purest feline ancestry.
Look out, little furry folk!
He's the all-night working cat.
Eats but one in every ten ---
Leaves the others on the mat.
...and the mouse police never sleeps ---
Waiting by the cellar door.
Window-box town crier;
Birth and death registrar.
With claws that rake a furrow red ---
Licensed to multilate.
From warm milk on a lazy day
To dawn patrol on hungry hate.
...no, the mouse police never sleeps ---
Climbing on the ivy.
Windy roof-top weathercock.
Warm-blooded night on a cold tile.
Muscled, black with steel-green eye   Swishing through the rye grass   With thoughts of mouse-and-apple pie.   Tail balancing at half-mast.   ...and the mouse police never sleeps ---   Lying in the cherry tree.   Savage bed foot-warmer of purest feline ancestry.   Look out, little furry folk!   He's the all-night working cat.   Eats but one in every ten ---   Leaves the others on the mat.   ...and the mouse police never sleeps ---   Waiting by the cellar door.   Window-box town crier;   Birth and death registrar.   With claws that rake a furrow red ---   Licensed to multilate.   From warm milk on a lazy day   To dawn patrol on hungry hate.   ...no, the mouse police never sleeps ---   Climbing on the ivy.   Windy roof-top weathercock.   Warm-blooded night on a cold tile.