Jethro Tull – And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps (Guitar)

Capo 3
Key
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Chords

from “Heavy Horses” (1978)
[Fill]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2-0-2-3-2-0-|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|

[Intro]
e|---0-0-0-----------------|---0-0-0-----------------|
B|---------1---------------|---------1---------------|
G|-2---------2---2-2-2-0---|-----------2---2-2-2-0---|
D|-----------------------2-|-2---------------------2-|
A|-------------------------|-------------------------|
E|-------------------------|-------------------------|

e|---0-0-0-----------------|---0-0-0-----------------|
B|---------1---------------|---------1---------------|
G|-----------2---2-2-2-0---|-----------2---2-2-2-0---|
D|-2---------------------2-|-2---------------------2-|
A|-------------------------|-------------------------|
E|-------------------------|-------------------------|
[Verse 1]
Am
Muscled, black with steel-green eye

Dm
Swishing through the rye grass

     Am
With thoughts of mouse-and-apple pie

     Dm
Tail balancing at half-mast

        C/G                D
And the mouse police never sleeps

G            F           Fill
Lying in the cherry tree

Am
Savage bed foot-warmer of purest feline ancestry
[Verse 2]
Am
Look out, little furry folk!

         Dm
He's the all-night working cat

Am
Eats but one in every ten

Dm
Leaves the others on the mat

        C/G                D
And the mouse police never sleeps

G              F           Fill
Waiting by the cellar door

Am
Window-box town crier, birth and death registrar
[Verse 3]
     Am
With claws that rake a furrow red

Dm
Licensed to mutilate

     Am
From warm milk on a lazy day

   Dm
To dawn patrol on hungry hate

        C/G                D
No, the mouse police never sleeps

G               F   Fill
Climbing on the ivy

Am
Windy roof-top weathercock, warm-blooded night on a cold tile
[Outro]
Am
The mouse police never sleeps x8
N.C. The mouse police never sleeps x4 N.C. The mouse – cough, cough!