• Song:

    Nine Cats

  • Artist:

    Porcupine Tree

  • Album:

    2001-06-23: NEARfest 20...

(intro) B5

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The butterfly sailed on the breeze
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Past a field of barbed wire trees
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Where golden dragons chased around
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Pampered poppies on the ground
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Two silver trout sat way on high
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And watched a royal samurai
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Plant two black orchids in a box
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And strap it to a laughing fox
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A minstrel bought a crooked spoon
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He gave it to a blue baboon
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Who filled it full of virgin snow
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I'm wondering in the afterglow

(solo) B5 E5 E5 G5 F#5

B5                            E5   E5 E5 E5
Fat toad stood in his ballet shoes
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Teaching sixteen kangaroos
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How to skip across a lake
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They found it hard to stay awake

(solo) B5 E5 E5 E5 E5 G5 F#5

D5         F#5             G5
A pharaoh played a merry tune
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And watched nine cats dance on the moon
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I didn't know what all this meant
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I didn't know why I'd been sent.

(final) B5 E5 E5 E5 E5 (3x) 
        G5 A5 B5 (2x)
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