Squeeze – Cool For Cats (Guitar Acoustic)

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Song: Cool for cats Artist: Squeeze Composers: Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook Album: Cool for cats Tabbed by DJ 15th June 2015 IGNORE THE CHORD BOX DIAGRAMS that the website displays, they are generated automatically from a generic database and often don't show the best option for a particular chord progression. Just use the voicings suggested in the text column numbers The slash chords can be played just as single bass notes only if preferred SEE TABLATURE OF THE BASS RUN AT BOTTOM OF THE PAGE G = 355433 or 320033 F = 133211 G/F# = 2xxxxx or 2x0033 A = x02220 Em = 022000 Em/F# = 222000 or 2xxxxx Em/D = xx0000 or xx0xxx Em/G = 322000 or 3xxxxx C = x32010 Em/G# = 422000 or 4xxxxx C/B = x22010 or x2xxxx A/G = 302220 or 3xxxxx Am = 577555 or x02210 A/F# = 202220 or 2xxxxx Eb = x68886 A/E = 002220 or 0xxxxx Cm = x35543 Please take a second to swipe down to the bottom of the page and select a star rating for my tab, thanks ===================================================== [Intro]
  G       G/F# Em      Em/D  C      C/B  Am
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[Verse 1]
    G
The Indians send signals...

G/F#     Em                    Em/D
From the rocks above the pass,

    C
The cowboys take position...

C/B    Am
In the bushes and the grass,

    Eb     
The squaw is with the Corporal,

       Cm
She is tied against a tree,

    Eb     
She doesn't mind the language,

         Cm
It's the beating she don't need,

    Eb
She lets loose all the horses...

         C
When the Corporal is asleep,

       G                        G/F#  
And he wakes to find the fire's dead,

    Em                   Em/D
And arrows in his hat,

    C
And Davy Crockett rides around,

    F 
And says, "It's cool for cats,

              Em  Em/F# Em/G Em/G#  A  A/G A/F# A/E
It's cool for cats!"
(Cool-----------for cats-----------!) [Verse 2]
    G
The Sweeney's doing 90,

 G/F#          Em                  Em/D
'Cause they've got the word to go,

     C
They get a gang of villains...

C/B  Am
In a shed up at Heathrow,

        Eb
They're counting out the fivers,

         Cm
When the handcuffs lock again,

Eb
In and out of Wandsworth,

         Cm
With the numbers on their names,

     Eb
It's funny how their missus...

       C
Always looks the bleeding same,

    G
And meanwhile, at the station,

G/F#      Em                      Em/D
There's a couple of likely lads,

    C
Who swear like 'how's-your-father',

            F
And they're very cool for cats,

                 Em  Em/F# Em/G Em/G#  A A/G A/F# A/E
They're cool for cats!"
(Cool-----------for cats--------!) [Verse 3]
   G
To change the mood a little,

G/F#      Em                    Em/D
I've been posing down the pub,

   C                     C/B
On seeing my reflection,

    Am
I'm looking slightly rough

  Eb                          Cm
I fancy this, I fancy that, I wanna be so flash,

  Eb                         Cm
I give a little muscle and I spend a little cash,

    Eb                        C
But all I get is bitter and a nasty little rash,

    G
And by the time I'm sober...

G/F#       Em                     Em/D
I've for - gotten what I've had,

    C                            F
And everybody tells me that it's cool to be a cat,

         Em  Em/F# Em/G Em/G#  A
Cool for cats!"
(Cool-----------for cats-----------!) [Ad-libbed Bridge]
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  Em           (A)         (Em)         (A)
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[Verse 4]
G                     G/F#  Em
Shake up at the disco and I think I've got a pull,

Em/D    C
      I ask her lots of questions,

C/B     Am
And she hangs on to the wall,

  Eb
I kiss her for the first time,

    Cm
And then I take her home,

        Eb
I'm in- vited in for coffee and I give the dog a bone

    Eb                              C
She likes to go to discos but she's never on her own,

  G
I said, 'I'll see you later!',

G/F#  Em                       Em/D
And I give her some old chat,

    C
But it's not like that on the TV,

F
When it's cool for cats,

              Em   Em/F# Em/G Em/G#  A  A/G A/F# A/E
It's cool for ca-a -a-a -ats!"
(Cool------------for cats-----------!) [Coda - Repeats]
    G     G/F# Em      Em/D  C      C/B  Am
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 Eb          Cm    Eb          Cm    Eb          C
(Oo---, oo - oo!   Oo---, oo - oo!   Oo---, oo - oo!)

  G       G/F# Em     Em/D  C            F
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 Em  Em/F# Em/G Em/G#  A  A/G A/F# A/E
(Cool-----------for    cats-----------!)
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[Bass run at end of verses]
    Em  Em/F# Em/G Em/G#  A   A/G  A/F# A/E
   (Cool---------- for    cats-----------!)
e|--0------------------|--0----------------|
B|--0------------------|--2----------------|
G|--0------------------|--2----------------|
D|--2------------------|--2----------------|
A|--2------------------|--0----------------|
E|--0----2----3----4---|------3----2----0--|