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Stray Cat Strut Tab

by Stray Cats


Article: 1508 of alt.guitar.tab
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Lines: 66

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
|        |       | cont.     |          |
 Oooh                      Oooh

                                  
Black and orange stray cat sittin' on a fence.

                            
Ain't got enough dough to pay the rent.

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

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

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


(instrumental)
    |    |(tacet)|     |

Verse 2
                                
I don't bother chasing mice around.  I slink down the alley looking for a fight

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

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

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

solo
|    |    | etc.

repeat verse 2

|    |    | (tacet)                       
                  |-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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