Title: Year Of The Cat

Artist: Al Stewart
Sequenced by: Michael D. MacDonald
January 2001

Michael D MacDonald
Non-commercial use only
Performed by Al Stewart
Do not change this song in any manner
If you use this song, please let me know: mike@mmacdonald.com

On a morning
from a Bogart movie
In a country
where they turn back time
She goes strolling through
the crowd like Peter Lorre,
contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun
in a silk dress running
like a watercolour
in the rain
Don't bother asking for
explanations
She'll just tell you
that she came
in the year of the cat

She doesn't give you
time for questions
As she locks up
your arm in hers
And you follow 'till your
sense of which direction
completely disappears
By the blue tiled walls
near the market stalls
There's a hidden door
she leads you to
These days, she says,
I feel my life just like
a river running through
The year of the cat

Well, she looks at you so cooly
and her eyes shine
like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense
and patchouli
So you take her,
to find what's waiting inside
The year of the cat

Well, morning comes
and you're still with her
And the bus
and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away the
choice and lost your ticket
So you have to stay on
But the drumbeat strains
of the night remain
in the rhythm
of the newborn day
You know sometime
you're bound to leave her
but for now you're gonna stay
In the year of the cat

Well, she looks at you so cooly
and her eyes shine
like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense
and patchouli
So you take her,
to find what's waiting inside
The year of the cat

Year Of The Cat
Words and Music Al Stewart and Peter Wood
Soft karaoke
Words
Year Of The Cat
Fingered Bas
Grand Piano
Clarinet
Grand Piano
Elec Guit
Steel Guit
Drums
El Grand
El Grand
=== Year Of The Cat ===
Words and Music Al Stewart and Peter Wood
Arranged and Sequenced by
Michael D. MacDonald
January 2001
Non commercial use only
Do not change this song in any manner
mike@mmacdonald.com

CountIn
Intro
A1
A2
C