Song: Ev'rybody wants to be a cat
Movie: The Aristocats
Lyrics: Floyd Huddleston
Music: Al Rinker
Tabbed by: DJ
8th Aug 2013
CAPO: 3rd fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of Cm)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
E7 = 020100 Fmaj7 = 133210 Dmmaj7 = xx0221
Am = x02210 Dm6/F = 100201 Dm7 = xx0211
Ammaj7 = x02110 F7 = 131211 G7 = 320001
Am7 = x02010 Em7 = x22030 C = x32010
Am6 = x04210 Dm = xx0231 F = 133211
A7 = x02020
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[Verse 1]
E7 Am Ammaj7 Am7 Am6
Everybody wants to be a cat,
Fmaj7 Dm6/F F7 E7
Because a cat's the only cat who knows where it's at,
Am Ammaj7 Am7 Am6
(Tell me!) Everybody's picking up on that feline beat,
Fmaj7 Em7 Am Em7 Am
'Cause everything else is obso - lete!
[Verse 2]
Dm Dmmaj7 Dm7 G7
A square with a horn makes you wish you weren't born,
C Dm E7
Every time he plays, but with a square in the act,
Dm E7 Am Dm E7
You can set music back to the cave - man days,
F7 E7
Ze - de, dum, bo - zay!
[Verse 3]
Am Ammaj7 Am7 Am6
I've heard some corny birds who tried to sing,
Fmaj7 Dm6/F F7 E7
Still, a cat's the only cat who knows how to swing,
Am Ammaj7 Am7 Am6
Who wants to dig a long-haired gig, and stuff like that?
Fmaj7 Em7 Am Em7 Am
When every - body wants to be a cat!
[Verse 4]
Dm Dmmaj7 Dm7 G7
A square with a horn makes you wish you weren't born,
C
Every time he plays, (Oh, a - rinky, tinky - tinky!)
Dm E7
But with a square in the act,
Dm E7 Am Dm E7
You can set music back to the cave - man days!
F7 E7
(Oh, a - rinky, tinky - tinky!)
[Verse 5]
Am Ammaj7 Am7 Am6
Yes---, everybody wants to be a cat,
Fmaj7 Dm6/F F7 E7
Because a cat's the only cat who knows where it's at,
Am Ammaj7 Am7 Am6
When playing jazz you always has a welcome mat,
Fmaj7 Em7 Am Em7 Am Am
'Cause every - body digs a swing - ing cat!
[Two bar drum break]
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[Coda]
Dm F7 E7
| / / / / | / / / / |
Dm A7 Dm
Everybody, everybody,
A7 Dm E7 A7
Everybody wants to be a cat! (Alleluia!)
Dm A7 Dm
||: Everybody, everybody,
A7 Dm E7 A7
Everybody wants to be a cat! :|| [Repeat]
[End on Dm]