Chords for Steven Wilson, Nine Cats, Dec. 2018

_ This is a song which is [Gb] so obscure [A] that I myself had to be off the [C] usual.
_ And _ _ _ _ [Bb] I did this once, I've performed this [Ab] once before, and [Eb] I got halfway through it but I hadn't actually rehearsed it.
And I [Gb] realised the lyrics were wrong.
_ _ So the person who's transcribed the lyrics has actually got them wrong.
_ So, [E] _
_ _ [D] don't believe everything you read on the internet.
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_ [E] So this [Ab] is a song from the very, [Gb] very, very first album that was [Abm] released under the name of [B] Porcupine Tree,
which means essentially [Ab] it was the first ever [B]
solo record I made,
because at that time Porcupine Tree was [E] just me [G] _ pretending to be a [G] band.
But [Gb] _ this is, to all intents [E] and purposes, a song from my first ever solo.
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Ab] You'll know [N] this, the lyrics are absolutely ludicrous. _
I did not write them.
[B] _ They have a certain, shall we say, Alice in Wonderland-like charm.
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ A royal sanguine [Am] ride, _ [F] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ two [Em] black _ cockates in [Am] a _ [C] bar _
A _ _ _ [Em] shrabby two-and-a [Am]-half-inch pot, [F] _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ a minstrel pot, a crooked [D] _ spoon _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ [Am] He gave it to a little [D] _ _ _ baboon _
_ [A] _ _ [Am] He filled it full of [D] virgin _ snow, _ _ _ [F] and _ wandered [G] _
in the _ [Am] _ _ afterglow _
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_ _ A toadstool [B] in his ballet _ shoes, _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ teaching sixty _ [E] _ kangaroos _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ How to skip a cross in [E] May, _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ they found it hard to stay [E] _ _ awake _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [Em] A fair old lady, a merry [Am] church, [F] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [Em] who'd watch nine cats dance on the [Am] moon
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_ [C] _ _ I [Em] didn't know what I [Am] was _ [F] saying _ _
_ _ [C] _ I [Em] didn't know what I [Am] was _ [F] saying _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ I threw five clocks down on my [D] bed
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_ [B] _ [Am] _ The chimes danced down on the [E] floor with a [D] thread _ _
[A] _ _ [Am] I turned to footprints off [A] my wall
[D] _ _ The _ [F] _ _ _ [G] sequins and tears began [Am] to fall
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_ Thank you very much.
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