Year Of The Cat chords by Al Stewart

*****Piano Introduction
(Slowly)
Cmaj7  D6  Em (3x)
Am   D
Cmaj7  D6  Em (3x)
Am   D
(Faster with a beat)
G  Cmaj7  Gmaj7  Cmaj7
E (E6 E) Am (A7sus4 Am) D   (See Note)
Cmaj7 Bm Em (3x)
Am D

*****Verses
        Cmaj7      Bm      Em  Cmaj7  Bm Em
1. On a morning....
2.  She doesn't give...
3. Well morning...
           Cmaj7                 Bm         Em
1.  You go strolling through the crowd like Peter...
2. And you Follow...
3.     ... thrown away...
          Am7          D
1.  Comtemplating....
2.     Completely...
3. So you have to...
             Cmaj7      Bm      Em    B           C
1. She comes out of the sun...     ...water....
2.    By the blue tiled walls...   ...hidden...
3.   But the drumbeat...           ...rythm...
                B          Em
1. Don't bother asking for explanations...
2. These Days, "she says...
3. You know sometime...

               Am7                         D
1. She'll just tell you that she came...
2.      Like a river running through...
3.     But for now your...
                      Cmaj7 D6 Em (3x) Am7 D
1. In the Year of the cat.
2.    The Year of the cat.  (goto Break)
3. In the Year of the cat

Cmaj7 D6 Em (3x)
Am7 D
Cmaj7 D6 Em (3x)
Am7 D

*****Ending Sax Solo
G  Cmaj7  G  Cmaj7  E  Am7  D Am7
Cmaj7 D6 Em (3x) Am7 D (repeat to fade)

******Break
         B               C          G      D
Well she looks at you so cooly....
             B           C               G
She comes in incense and pathchouli..... take her...
    F6         C       D
to find what's waiting inside
                Cmaj7 D6 Em  Cmaj7 D6 Em
the Year of the Cat.

        *****Strings
Cmaj7 D6 Em Am7 D
        *****Acoustic solo
Cmaj7 D6 Em Cmaj7 D6 Em Cmaj7 D6 Em Am7 D
G  Cmaj7  G  Cmaj7  E  Am  D
        *****Electric solo
  D  D  G  D  G  Bm  B7  C  A
       *****Sax solo
 Cmaj7 D6 Em (3x) Am7 D  (continue to 3rd verse)



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

     E       E6 ^    E ^ ^   Am       A7sus4 ^     Am ^ ^   D
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)