🎸 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)