Chords for Al Stewart - Year of The Cat (Solid Gold Classic) - 1982

A record that sold over a million copies and went to the top of the charts.
Please welcome Mr.
Al Stewart. _ _ _ _ _
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_ Al, Year of the Cat has such interesting lyrics.
What inspired that song?
Well, you probably remember the old movie Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart.
Oh, one of my favorites.
Oh, one of your favorites, right.
And I don't know if you know anything about Vietnamese astrology, and nor do I.
But there was a book lying around the house and it was open at a chapter heading called The Year of the Cat.
I discovered that that was 1975, and I set two lovers in North Africa in the town of Casablanca
and made them have a love affair in 1975, much in the way that Bogart and Bergman had all those years ago.
And so this is an updated North African love song.
Well, I don't know what it all means, but it was certainly one of the biggest hits of the _ 1970s.
Thank you.
Singing his solid gold classic, Year of the Cat, Mr.
Al Stewart.
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_ _ _ _ _ [C] morning [Bm] from a forgot [Em] movie, _ in [C] a country [Bm] where they turn [Em] back time.
_ We go [C] [Bm] strolling through the crowd [Em] like Peter [Am] Lorre contemplating a crime.
[D] _ _ _ [C] She comes out [Bm] of the sun [Em] _ and swims [B] like a watercolor [C] in the rain.
_ _ _ [B] Don't bother [Em] asking for an explanation, she'll [Am] just tell you that she came.
[D] _ In the year [C] of the [D] cat, _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [C] _ [D] _
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_ [D] _ _ _ _ [C] she [Bm] doesn't give you time [Em] for questions.
As [C] she locks [Bm] up your [Em] eyes and words, [C] have you followed [Bm] to your [Em] sense of which direction,
[Am] _ completely disappears.
[D] _ _ _ By [C] the blue [Bm] tiled [Em] walls near the market stalls, [B] there's a hidden girl she [C] leads you to.
_ _ _ [B] These days, she [Em] says, I feel my life just [Am] like a wave, a running through [D] _ the year [C] of the [D] cat.
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morning [Bm] comes and you're [Em] still with her, [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 [D] on.
_ _ But [C] the drumbeat [Bm] strains [Em] of the night remain, [B] and the rhythm of the new [C] born day.
_ _ You [B] know sometime [Em] you're bound to leave her, [Am] but for now you're gonna stay, [D] _ in the year of [C] the cat.
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