Year Of The Cat chords by Al Stewart

Chords with lyrics

*****Piano Introduction
(Slowly)
Cmaj7Cmaj7 D6D6 E minorEm (3x)
A minorAm  D MajorD
Cmaj7Cmaj7 D6D6 E minorEm (3x)
A minorAm  D MajorD
(Faster with a beat)
G+G Cmaj7Cmaj7 Gmaj7Gmaj7 Cmaj7Cmaj7
E MajorE (E6E6 E MajorE) A minorAm (A7sus4A7sus4 A minorAm) D MajorD  (See Note)
Cmaj7Cmaj7 B minorBm E minorEm (3x)
A minorAm D MajorD

*****Verses
    Cmaj7Cmaj7   B minorBm   E minorEm Cmaj7Cmaj7 B minorBm E minorEm
1. On a morning....
2. She doesn't give...
3. Well morning...
      Cmaj7Cmaj7         B minorBm     E minorEm
1. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter...
2. And you Follow...
3.   ... thrown away...
     Am7Am7     D MajorD
1. Comtemplating....
2.   Completely...
3. So you have to...
       Cmaj7Cmaj7   B minorBm   E minorEm  BB      C majorC
1. She comes out of the sun...   ...water....
2.  By the blue tiled walls...  ...hidden...
3.  But the drumbeat...      ...rythm...
        BB     E minorEm
1. Don't bother asking for explanations...
2. These Days, "she says...
3. You know sometime...

        Am7Am7             D MajorD
1. She'll just tell you that she came...
2.   Like a river running through...
3.   But for now your...
           Cmaj7Cmaj7 D6D6 E minorEm (3x) Am7Am7 D MajorD
1. In the Year of the cat.
2.  The Year of the cat. (goto Break)
3. In the Year of the cat

Cmaj7Cmaj7 D6D6 E minorEm (3x)
Am7Am7 D MajorD
Cmaj7Cmaj7 D6D6 E minorEm (3x)
Am7Am7 D MajorD

*****Ending Sax Solo
G+G Cmaj7Cmaj7 G+G Cmaj7Cmaj7 E MajorE Am7Am7 D MajorD Am7Am7
Cmaj7Cmaj7 D6D6 E minorEm (3x) Am7Am7 D MajorD (repeat to fade)

******Break
     BB        C majorC     G+G   D MajorD
Well she looks at you so cooly....
       BB      C majorC        G+G
She comes in incense and pathchouli..... take her...
  F6F6     C majorC    D MajorD
to find what's waiting inside
        Cmaj7Cmaj7 D6D6 E minorEm Cmaj7Cmaj7 D6D6 E minorEm
the Year of the Cat.

    *****Strings
Cmaj7Cmaj7 D6D6 E minorEm Am7Am7 D MajorD
    *****Acoustic solo
Cmaj7Cmaj7 D6D6 E minorEm Cmaj7Cmaj7 D6D6 E minorEm Cmaj7Cmaj7 D6D6 E minorEm Am7Am7 D MajorD
G+G Cmaj7Cmaj7 G+G Cmaj7Cmaj7 E MajorE A minorAm D MajorD
    *****Electric solo
 D MajorD D MajorD G+G D MajorD G+G B minorBm B7B7 C majorC A augmentedA
    *****Sax solo
 Cmaj7Cmaj7 D6D6 E minorEm (3x) Am7Am7 D MajorD (continue to 3rd verse)


Note*** Optional --- Sounds good...

   E MajorE    E6E6 ^  E MajorE ^ ^  A minorAm    A7sus4A7sus4 ^   A minorAm ^ ^  D MajorD
e|----------------------------------------------------------2------------
b|------------2---------------1---------3----------1--------3------------
g|--1---------1------1--------2---------2----------2--------2------------
d|--2---------2------2--------2---------2----------2---------------------
a|--2---------2------2---------------------------------------------------
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------
       (Use your pinky)

Other versions of Year Of The Cat

Alternative guitar chords and tabs for Year of the cat (Ver. 2) by Al Stewart