Of The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles is a song in the musical Cats

Cats (musical)

Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot...

. It is sung mostly by Munkustrap

Munkustrap

Munkustrap is a Jellicle cat, named in T. S. Eliot's poem "The Naming of Cats". He is a principal character in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats.-The musical:...

. It describes a battle between two neighbouring dog tribes, the Pekes and the Pollicles, who bark "until you could hear them all over the park". The cats stage the battles by dressing up as dogs and barking in each other's faces. This goes on until the Great Rumpus Cat

Rumpus Cat

The Great Rumpus Cat is a fictional character from T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and from Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Cats. In Cats, the Jellicles put on a small play when their leader, Old Deuteronomy, arrives. The story is about how Rumpus Cat stopped two neighboring dog...

arrives and scares the dogs away.

Trivia

• The word "Pollicle Dog" is derived from an unsuccessful attempt at saying "poor little dog". Similarly, "Jellicle Cat" is a corruption of "dear little cat".

• Although "Peke" usually refers to Pekingese, in the song it seems to refer to a variety of different types of dogs.

• The song is spelled "awefull" intentionally, but often is incorrectly spelled as "awful".