Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull & Darryl Way
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull
A nice little song about a cat, from the album Heavy Horses. Ian Anderson is a well-known lover of cats, both domestic and wild.
[Verse 1]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Bridge]
Waiting by the cellar door
Window-box town crier
Birth and death registrar
[Verse 3]
With claws that rake a furrow red
Licensed to mutilate
From warm milk on a lazy day
To dawn patrol on hungry hate
No, the mouse police never sleeps
[Bridge]
Climbing on the ivy
Windy rooftop weathercock
Warm-blooded night on a cold tile
[Outro]
The mouse police never sleeps
The mouse police never sleeps
The mouse police never sleeps
The mouse police never sleeps
The mouse police never sleeps
The mouse
...And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps was written by Ian Anderson.
...And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps was produced by Ian Anderson.
Jethro Tull released ...And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps on Mon Apr 10 1978.