Tabs

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Tabbed by: Mike Nachaj :: mnachaj@hotmail.com

Song: Year of the Cat
By:   Al Stewart and Peter Wood
                               
[intro:]  3 X [ Cmaj7  D  Em ]   Am7   D7
          3 X [ Cmaj7  D  Em ]   Am7   D7
          G  Cmaj7  G  Cmaj7  E  Am7   D7
          3 X [ Cmaj7  D  Em ]   Am7   D7
         
[verse:1]
     Cmaj7            D     Em
On a morning from a Bogart movie
      Cmaj7               D          Em
in a country where they turned back time
        Cmaj7                  D        Em
you go strolling through the crowd like
               Am7            D7
Peter Lorre contemplating a crime
      Cmaj7           Bm            Em
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress
                B                  C
running like a water color in the rain
 C             B           Em
Don't bother asking for explanations
            Am7                 D
She'll just tell you that she came
                   3 X [ Cmaj7  D  Em ]   Am7   D7
in the Year of the Cat


[verse:2]
    Cmaj7            D           Em
She doesn't give you time for questions
       Cmaj7        D          Em
as she locks up you arm in hers
        Cmaj7              D       Em
And you follow 'til your sense of
                   Am7                 D7
Which direction completely disappears
       Cmaj7       Bm            Em
By the blue-tiled walls near the market stalls
            B                       C
there's a hidden door she leads you to
 C                 B      Em         
These days,  she says, I feel my life just
        Am7             D
Like a river running through
               3 X [ Cmaj7  D  Em ]   Am7   D7
The Year of the Cat

[bridge:] 
         B                 C
Well she looks at you so coolly
        G                   D
and her eyes shine like the moon

in the sea
             B                 C
She comes in incense and patchouli
       G           F
So you take her to find what's 
C/E            D
waiting inside

the Year of the Cat

INSTRUMENTAL: (repeat INTRO chords a few times) 
  acoustic/electric guitar solos, piano, sax, etc. (sweet stuff!)

                               
[instrumental]    3 X [ Cmaj7  D  Em ]   Am7   D7
[solo: acoustic]  3 X [ Cmaj7  D  Em ]   Am7   D7
                  G  Cmaj7  G  Cmaj7  E  Am7   D
                   
[solo: electric]  D   G  D  G  Bm  B7 C   A

[solo: sax]      3 X [ Cmaj7  D  Em ]   Am7   D7

[verse:3]
     Cmaj7              D                Em
Well morning comes and you're still with her
        Cmaj7          D          Em
and the bus and the tourists are gone
            Cmaj7             D        Em
And you've thrown away your choice and
                        Am7              D7
Lost your ticket so you have to stay on
         Cmaj7       Bm           Em
But the drumbeat strains of the night
                B                    C
Remain in the rhythm of the newborn day
 C           B           Em        
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
        Am7                D
But for now you're gonna stay

In the Year of the Cat

[coda:]
[instrumental]    3 X [ Cmaj7  D  Em ]   Am7   D7

In the Year of the Cat
                  3 X [ Cmaj7  D  Em ]   Am7   D7
[solo: sax]       G  Cmaj7  G  Cmaj7  E  Am7   D7
                  3 X [ Cmaj7  D  Em ]   Am7   D7
                  3 X [ Cmaj7  D  Em ]   Am7   D7

                  3 X [ Cmaj7  D  Em ] 


Chords:

Am7     x02010
Bm      224432
B       224442
B7      224242
Bm      224432
C       x32010
C/E     332010
Cmaj7   332000
D       xx2320
D7      xx0212
E       022100
Em      022000
F       133211
G       320003