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INTRO: Cmaj7 D Em (three times)
LAm7 RE7
VERSE 1:
DOmaj7 SIm MIm
On a morning from a Bogart movie
DOmaj7 SIm MIm
in a country where they turned back time
DOmaj7 SIm MIm
you go strolling through the crowd like
LAm7 RE7
Peter Lorre contemplating a crime.
DOmaj7 SIm MIm
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress
SI DO
running like a water color in the rain.
SI MIm
Don't bother asking for explanations.
LAm7 RE
She'll just tell you that she came
in the Year of the Cat.
INSTRUMENTAL: (repeat INTRO chords)
VERSE 2:
DOmaj7 SIm MIm
She doesn't give you time for questions
DOmaj7 SIm MIm
as she locks up you arm in hers.
DOmaj7 SIm MIm
And you follow 'til your sense of
LAm7 RE7
which direction completely disappears.
DOmaj7 SIm MIm
By the blue-tiled walls near the market stalls
SI DO
there's a hidden door she leads you to.
SI MIm
"These days," she says, "I feel my life just
LAm7 RE
like a river running through
the Year of the Cat."
INSTRUMENTAL: (repeat INTRO chords)
BRIDGE: (lead-in: D instead of D7)
SI DO
Well she looks at you so cooly
SOL RE
and her eyes shine like the moon
in the sea.
SI DO
She comes in incense and pathchouli
SOL FA
so you take her to find what's
DO/MI RE
waiting inside
the Year of the Cat.
INSTRUMENTAL: (repeat INTRO chords a few times)
acoustic/electric guitar solos, piano, sax, etc. (sweet stuff!)
VERSE 3:
DOmaj7 SIm MIm
Well morning comes and you're still with her
DOmaj7 SIm MIm
and the bus and the tourists are gone.
DOmaj7 SIm MIm
And you've thrown away your choice and
LAm7 RE7
lost your ticket so you have to stay on.
DOmaj7 SIm MIm
But the drumbeat strains of the night
SI DO
remain in the rhythm of the newborn day.
SI MIm
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
LAm7 RE
but for now you're gonna stay
in the Year of the Cat.
INSTRUMENTAL: (repeat INTRO chords and fade)
piano riffs, sax, etc.
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
DOmaj7 x32000
RE xx2320
MIm 022000
LAm7 x02010
RE7 xx0212
SIm xx4432
SI xx4442
DO x32010
SOL 320003
FA xx3211
DO/MI xx2010
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