VERSION: Edited
Getting Started - by UkeleleUprising
To learn Al Stewart - Year of the Cat chords with lyrics, focus on the sequence of these chords: Bm, Em, C, D, C, Bm, D, C, Em, Am. To get a solid grasp, start slowly at 58 BPM and then match the original tempo of 117 BPM. Adapt the capo setting considering your vocal range, with reference to the key: G.
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C On a morning
Bm from a
Em forgotten movie _ In a country
Bm where they turn
Em back time.
C You go
Bm strolling through the crowd
Em like Victor Lara
Am _ contemplating a crime.
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C She comes out
Bm of the sun
Em in a silk dress running
B like a watercolour
C in the rain.
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B Don't bother
Em asking for an explanation She'll
Am just tell you that she came
D in the year
C of.
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D Canne
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C She doesn't give you
Bm time
Em for questions.
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C she locks
Bm up your
Em eyes and hers
C And you follow
Bm till your
Em sense of which direction.
Am completely disappears
D _ By _
C the blue
Bm tiled
Em walls near the market
Am stalls.
B of the hidden door she
C leads you to _ _
B These days
Em I feel my life
Am just like a river.
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D _ The year
C of the canne.
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C B While she looks at you
C so coolly
G And her eyes shine
D like the moon and the sea.
She
B comes in incense
C and patchouli _
G So you take her
Dm to find
C what's waiting
D inside _ _ .
_ The year of
Em the canne.
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Bm comes and you're
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C On the bus
Bm and the tourists
Em are gone.
And you've thrown
Bm away your
Em choice and lost your ticket
Am So you have to stay on.
D _ _ But
C the drumbeat
Bm strains
Em of the night come in
B And the rhythm of the new
C born day.
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B know sometime
Em you're bound to leave her
Am But for now you're gonna
D stay.
In the year of
C the canne.
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