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this is a good one.  I play it for my cat all the time.  Crank up the reverb
and play it clean.  Some of you might want to sing Strat Cat Strut.
could someone send this to Nevada FTP?

This is the basic progression: Cm  Bb  Ab  G7

Stray Cat Strut
by
The Stray Cats

Shuffle
|Cm    Bb    |Ab    G7   | cont.     |          |
Oooh                      Oooh

CmCm Piano Chord 
               BbBb Piano Chord 
        AbAb Piano Chord 
           G7G7 Piano Chord 

Black and orange stray cat sittin' on a fence.

CmCm Piano Chord 
          BbBb Piano Chord 
            AbAb Piano Chord 
      G7G7 Piano Chord 

Ain't got enough dough to pay the rent.

Cm       Bb        Ab      G7        G7 (tacet)
I'm flat broke but I don't care,   I strut right by with my tail in the air.

FmFm Piano Chord 
        EbEb Piano Chord 
          DbDb Piano Chord 
     C7C7 Piano Chord 
         FmFm Piano Chord 
         EbEb Piano Chord 
       DbDb Piano Chord 
         C7C7 Piano Chord 

Stray cat strut I'm a ladies cat, I'm a feline Casanova hey man that's that.

Fm          Eb           Db       C7    Fm (tacet)
Get a shoe thrown at me from a mean old man.  Get my dinner from a garbage can.

(instrumental)
Cm   Bb | Ab   G7|Cm(tacet)|     |

Verse 2
FmFm Piano Chord 
             Fm7Fm7 Piano Chord 
               CmCm Piano Chord 
    FmFm Piano Chord 

I don't bother chasing mice around.  I slink down the alley looking for a fight

D7D7 Piano Chord 
                           G7G7 Piano Chord 
                 CmCm Piano Chord 
             BbBb Piano Chord 

howlin' to the moonlight on a hot summer night.  Singin' the blues while the

AbAb Piano Chord 
        G7G7 Piano Chord 
      CmCm Piano Chord 
       BbBb Piano Chord 
           AbAb Piano Chord 
        G7G7 Piano Chord 
      CmCm Piano Chord 
           BbBb Piano Chord 

lady cats cry.  Wild stray cat you're a real gone guy.  I wish I could be as

Ab            G7           Cm(tacet)
care-free and wild,  but I got cat class and I got cat style.

solo
|Cm  Bb  |Ab  G7  | etc.

repeat verse 2

|Cm  Bb  |Ab  G7  |Cm (tacet)                       Cm
|-8-------------------|------------------|
|---------------------|------------------|
|---11-10-8-10-8------|------------------|
|----------------10-8-|---7-9-10---------|
|---------------------|10----------------|
|---------------------|------------------|


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"The blues is a low down achein' chill"  Robert Johnson
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