Tom: C5 

Intro:  C5  D5  E5  3x

        A5    D5

     C5          B5       E5
On a morning from a Bogart movie
     C5              B5             E5
in a country where they turned back time
       C5                 B5        E5
you go strolling through the crowd like
                  A5            D5
Peter Lorre contemplating a crime.
          C5       B5          E5
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress
               B5                  C5
running like a water color in the rain.
             B5         E5
Don't bother asking for explanations.
            A5                    D5
She'll just tell you that she came

in the Year of the Cat.

INSTRUMENTAL (INTRO)
    C5            B5           E5
She doesn't give you time for questions
       C5        B5          E5
as she locks up you arm in hers.
        C5            B5       E5
And you follow 'til your sense of
                   A5                 D5
which direction completely disappears.
       C5       B5            E5
By the blue-tiled walls near the market stalls
          B5                         C5
there's a hidden door she leads you to.
                  B5       E5         
"These days," she says, "I feel my life just
       A5                   D5
like a river running through

the Year of the Cat."

INSTRUMENTAL (INTRO)


         B5                 C5
Well she looks at you so cooly
        G5                   D5
and her eyes shine like the moon

in the sea.
             B5                 C5
She comes in incense and pathchouli
       G5           F5
so you take her to find what's 
C5            D5
waiting inside

the Year of the Cat.

INSTRUMENTAL
     C5            B5                E5
Well morning comes and you're still with her
        C5          B5        E5
and the bus and the tourists are gone.
            C5             B5        E5
And you've thrown away your choice and
                        A5              D5
lost your ticket so you have to stay on.
         C5         B5             E5
But the drumbeat strains of the night
              B5                     C5
remain in the rhythm of the newborn day.
              B5         E5        
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
        A5                   D5
but for now you're gonna stay
in the Year of the Cat.
INSTRUMENTAL  and fade
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