...And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps - Jethro Tull

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 mutilate

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