They Call Her The Cat
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Intro: C
[Verso 1]
F C
She threw back that shiny hair
G7 C
Like the mane on a Delta queen
F C
Gonna spend my last dime on a telephone call
G7 C
'Cause she's the wildest thing I've ever seen
[Pré-Refrão]
Dm7 C
She was just plain mister once
E7 Am
Got herself fixed up real good
Fm C
Just a little boy lost in the land of the free
D7 G7
A wiggle and a walk away from womanhood
[Refrão]
N.C. F
Now they call her the cat
C
And that's a stone fact
F
They took a little of this
C
She got a little of that
Bb
Now Billy got a kitty
F
He got something to scratch
D7
So they call her
G7 N.C. C
Yeah they call her the cat
[Verso 2]
F C
She just does that double act
G7 C
She got Babs and Joan down pat
F
She got hips like Mick,
C
She's a Rolling Stone
G7 C
Never seen a woman shake like that
[Pré-Refrão]
Dm7 C
She was just plain mister once
E7 Am
Got herself fixed up real good
Fm C
Just a little boy lost in the land of the free
D7 G7
A wiggle and a walk away from womanhood
[Refrão]
N.C. F
Now they call her the cat
C
And that's a stone fact
F
They took a little of this
C
She got a little of that
Bb
Now Billy got a kitty
F
He got something to scratch
D7
So they call her
G7 N.C. C
Yeah they call her the cat
[Ponte]
Bb F
She's so fine that the water line
C
Don't separate hot and cold
Bb F
She got stitched up bitchy by an old M.D
D7 G7
Now she's headed out to Hollywood or so I'm told
Interlude:
N.C. F C F C
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
F C D7 G
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[Refrão]
N.C. F
Now they call her the cat
C
And that's a stone fact
F
They took a little of this
C
She got a little of that
Bb
Now Billy got a kitty
F
He got something to scratch
D7
So they call her
G7 N.C. F
Yeah they call her the cat
C
And that's a stone fact
F
They took a little of this
C
She got a little of that
Bb
Now Billy got a kitty
F
He got something to scratch
D7
So they call her
G7 N.C. C
Yeah they call her the cat
Outro:
C
Ooh ooh yes
F C F C
F C F C
F
They call her the cat
C
Ooh ooh yeah
F C
Ooh ooh yeah
F C
Ooh ooh yeah
F C
Ooh ooh
F
They call her the cat
C
Ooh ooh yeah
F C
Ooh ooh yeah
F C
Ooh ooh yeah
F C
Ooh
How to play They Call Her The Cat
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Can I play it on guitar or keyboard?
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