Fling Pussy-Town’s gates wide and mightily mew,
Let both cats and children triumphantly through!
“We waited your coming unable to purr,
While anxious thoughts rumpled our minds and our fur;
Afar off we saw you, and mounted the walls,
Our voices quite hoarse from our eager catcalls!
Chorus: “All hail to you, Ban-Ban, and hail, Kiku-san!
All hail, little woman, and hail, little man!
Our joy shall be full since with us you have part,
Kind childhood, kind cathood united in heart!”