Year of the cat
C - Bm - Em (3x) - Am - D7
+ C - Bm - Em (3x) - Am - D7
+ G - C - G - C - E - Am - D7
+ C - Bm - Em (3x) - Am - D7
C Bm Em
1. On a morning from a Bogart
movie
C
Bm Em
in a
country where they turned back time.
C Bm - Em
you
go strolling through the crowd like
Peter Lorre,
Am - D7
contemplating
a crime.
C Bm Em
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress,
B7 C
running
like a water color in the rain.
C B7
- Em
Don’t bother asking for explanations,
Am - D7
she’ll
just tell you that she came
C
in the year of the cat.
+ C - Bm - Em (3x) - Am - D7
C Bm Em
2. She doesn’t give you time for questions,
C Bm Em
as
she locks up your arm in hers,
C Bm Em
and
you follow till your sense of which direction
Am - D7
completely
disappears.
C
Bm Em
By the blue-tiled walls near
the market stalls,
B7 C
there’s
a hidden door she leads you to.
C - B7 Em
These days, she says, I feel my life
Am - D7
just
like a river running through
C
in the
year of the cat.
+ C - Bm - Em (3x) - Am - D7
B7 C
+ Well, she looks at you
so coolly,
G D
and her
eyes shine like the moon in the sea.
B7 C
She comes in incense and
patchouli,
G F
C D
so
you take her to find what’s waiting inside
- - - - - - - - - - C
the
year of the cat.
+ C - Bm - Em (3x) - Am - D7
+ C - Bm - Em (3x) - Am - D7
+ G - C - G - C - E - Am - D7
- D - G - D - G - Em - B7 - Am - D7
+ C - Bm - Em (3x) - Am - D7
C Bm Em
3. Well, morning comes and you’re still with her,
C Bm Em
and
the bus and the tourists are gone.
C
Bm Em
And you’ve thrown away your choice and lost
your ticket,
Am - D7
so you have to
stay on.
C
Bm Em
But the drumbeat strains of
the night remain
B7 C
in the rhythm of the newborn day,
C B7 Em
You know sometime you’re bound
to leave her,
Am - D7
but
for now you’re gonna stay
C
in
the year of the cat ….
+ C - Bm - Em (3x) - Am - D7
C
+ In the year of the
cat.
+ C - Bm - Em (3x) - Am - D7
+ G - C - G - C - E - Am - D7
+ C - Bm - Em (3x) - Am - D7 ….
(Al Stewart)