Never Shout Never – Black Cat (Guitar)

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Chords

   Ab  Cm  F   G
e|-4---3---1---3-|
B|-4---4---1---3-|
G|-5---5---2---0-|
D|-6---5---3---0-|
A|-6---3---3---2-|
E|-4---x---1---3-|
[Intro] Cm G [Verse 1]
Cm             G           Cm           G
 The black cat firecracker snapped back baseball cappin'

 Cm        G              Cm           G
 Cola-cola sippin' on the suds wearing penny loafers.

     Cm          G                    Cm               G
 His Sunday best ain't good enough for the rest of the world. 

F        G                  F            Cm    G  Cm  G
 Yet, he stands in line and waits on his turn.

     Cm       G             Cm       G
 The complex, disconfigured man, unassociated,

 Cm           G           Cm            G      F`
 Agitated with the careful investigator taking notes. 

                   Cm                G
 He slowly tiptoes towards the dark. 
[Chorus]
 Ab                Cm
 Watercolor sunset painted before his eyes.

     Ab                              G
 The gateway has been opened, to the wonders of his mind. 

 Ab                     Cm
 He was a non-believer, now without a doubt. 

    Ab                                   G
 He looks up at the clouds, the chemical swirls fading in and out. 
Cm G Cm G [Verse 2]
     Cm          G            Cm          G
 The peacekeeper drafted into war, with a loaded rifle.

 Cm         G            Cm             G                Cm          G
 Unaware of consequences cold war ended with a spaceship has kind of shakers.

        Cm              G            F       
 He has been programmed to believe a lie. 

                                        Cm
 Yet, he stands there with a gun on the front line. 
[Chorus]
 Ab                      Cm
 Blood red color sunset, painted before his eyes.

     Ab                          G
 The veil has been lifted, as he watches his friends drop like flies.

Ab                      Cm
 He was a non-believer, now without a doubt.

    Ab                                  G
 He looks down at his paws, the guts he had spluttered on the ground. 

       Ab
 Yeah, yeah!

       G
 Yeah, yeah! 

       Ab
 Yeah, yeah!

       G
 Yeah, yeah!
[Verse 3]
            G                       Cm
 The family got the letter, it was a message, clear and true. 

     Ab                           Cm
 The hero, he had fallen, for the red, white, and blue.

Ab                      Cm
 He was a non-believer, now without a doubt. 

     Ab
 His body lays six feet under the ground.

     G
 The black cat's nine lives, they ran out.