Cool For Cats Chords

Song: Cool for cats
Artist: Squeeze
Composers: Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook
Album: Cool for cats
 
Tabbed by DJ  15th June 2015
 
[Bass riff 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--|
 
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option for a particular chord progression. Just use
the voicings suggested in the text column numbers
 
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G    = 355433 or 320033   F     = 133211
G/F# = 2xxxxx or 2x0033   A     = x02220
Em   = 022000             Em/F# = 2xxxxx or 222000
Em/D = xx0xxx or xx0000   Em/G  = 3xxxxx or 322000
C    = x32010             Em/G# = 4xxxxx or 422000
C/B  = x2xxxx or x22010   A/G#  = 4xxxxx or 422200
Am   = 577555 or x02210   A/G   = 3xxxxx or 322200
Eb   = x68886             A/E   = 0xxxxx or 022200
Cm   = x35543
 
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[Intro]
  G       G/F# Em      Em/D  C      C/B  Am
| /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / |
 
[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]
    Em        (A)      (Em)       (A)
||: / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / :||[x3]
 
[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,
      Cm
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
| /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / |
 Eb          Cm    Eb          Cm    Eb          C
(Oo---, oo - oo!   Oo---, oo - oo!   Oo---, oo - oo!)
 
  G       G/F# Em     Em/D  C            F
| /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / |
 Em  Em/F# Em/G Em/G#  A  A/G A/F# A/E
(Cool-----------for    cats-----------!)
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