... & The Mouse Police Never Sleeps Lyrics - Heavy Horses - 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. 

Related 

18 Non-Traditional Yet Perfect Wedding Songs 

From MetroLyrics to You: Our Classic Christmas Playlist 

5 Totally Underrated Christmas Songs 

...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. 

Photos