You can hear this at YouTube.


MELODRAMA OF THE MICE
As recorded by Mr. Flotsam & Mr Jetsam, 1935.

You know when you go to any picture house
You’ll see either a Silly Symphony or else a Mickey Mouse.
We have a silly symphony, although perhaps we shouldn’t.
Well, do you think that we can sing it?—Symphony* if we couldn’t.

You think—don’t you?—that nothing goes on
In a pitch-dark theatre when the crowd has gone.
Don’t you believe it, ’cause it isn’t true.
We have a secret that we’ll tell to you.

Backstage mice, mice behind the scenes,
Watch all the actors and the actorines.
Wait till the stage staff all have gone away.
Out come the mice to perform their play.

Squeak, squeak, squeak, they hurry from their holes,
Scamper on the stage and are given their roles.
Wouldn't you like to be there? Wouldn’t it be nice
To watch the melodrama of the backstage mice?

Here comes the villain with his fierce mustache.
Mrs Mouse owes the mortgage and hasn’t got the cash.
Poor little baby mice letting out a wail,
Miss Mouse the heroine lashes her tail.

Look, here’s Rodent, the little sailor mouse
With money in his knapsack to pay for the house.
Sudden pandemonium; now what is going on?
Enter the stage cat—end of act one.

Ten minutes interval, same as other shows,
Longer if need be till the damn cat goes.
At the all-clear signal, out they come again,
Link tails, dance to a popular refrain.

Look at little Miss Mouse; doesn’t she look nice?
Marries Mister Rodent with a choir of mice.

What about the villain? – Tell you in a minute.
Walks into a trap, dies in it.

Backstage mice, mice behind the scenes,
Think what the fame of Mickey Mouse means.
Following his footsteps, mice on parade.
See the little cowards in their cavalcade.

Squeak, squeak, squeak, supper if you please.
Where there are actors there is always cheese.
Wouldn’t you like to be there, nibble at a slice?
So ends the melodrama of the backstage mice.

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* I think this is meant to be a pun on “seem funny.”