In compliance of RUG's request that fan websites not publish the full libretto on their websites, I do not have all of the lyrics listed here. Instead, I have put up the poems that T.S. Eliot wrote which is what the musical is based on. And for those songs not found in the "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" I have gone ahead and put up the lyrics. The poems are very, very similar to the lyrics with just a few words changed for point of view reasonings.
However, if you want the exact lyrics, you can find them on another website called Lyrics on Demand.
| Poems | Lyrics |
|---|---|
| Prologue (Instrumental) | Prologue (Instrumental) |
| ~~~ | Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats |
| The Naming of Cats | ~~~ |
| ~~~ | The Invitation to the Jellicle Ball |
| The Old Gumbie Cat | ~~~ |
| The Rum Tum Tugger | ~~~ |
| ~~~ | Grizabella: The Glamour Cat |
| Bustopher Jones | ~~~ |
| Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer | ~~~ |
| Old Deuteronomy | ~~~ |
| The Pekes and the Pollicles | The Marching Song of the Pollicle Dogs |
| The Song of the Jellicles (aka~The Jellicle Ball) | ~~~ |
| ~~~ | Memory (first version) |
| ~~~ | The Moments of Happiness |
| Gus: The Theatre Cat | ~~~ |
| Growltiger's Last Stand | The Italian Aria & Translation The Ballad of Billy McCaw (UK version) |
| Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat | ~~~ |
| Macavity: The Mystery Cat | ~~~ |
| Mr. Mistoffelees | ~~~ |
| ~~~ | Memory (second version) |
| ~~~ | The Journey to the Heaviside Layer |
| The Ad-dressing of Cats | ~~~ |
| Cat Morgan Introduces Himself (This is the only poem not in the musical.) | ~~~ |