Stray Cat Strut Uke tab by Stray Cats

10 Chords used in the song: Cm, Bb, Ab, G7, Fm, Eb, Db, C7, Fm7, D7

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Artist: Stray Cats

Album: Built For Speed

Year: 1982

Difficulty:

5.4

(Intermediate)

Key: unknownChords

Intro:
Cm      Bb      Ab      G7
Ooh     Oooh...

Cm               Bb        Ab           G7
Black and orange stray cat sittin' on a fence.
Cm          Bb            Ab      G7
Ain't got enough dough to pay the rent.
Cm       Bb        Ab      G7        G7
I'm flat broke but I don't care.  I strut right by with my tail in the air.
Fm        Eb          Db     C7         Fm         Eb       Db         C7
Stray cat strut I'm a ladies cat, I'm a feline Casanova hey man that's that.
      Fm          Eb           Db       C7    
Get a shoe thrown at me from a mean old man.  Get my dinner from a garbage can.


Fm             Fm7               Cm    Fm
I don't bother chasing mice around.  I slink down the alley looking for a fight
 D7                           G7                 Cm             Bb
howlin' to the moonlight on a hot summer night.  Singin' the blues while the
Ab        G7      Cm       Bb           Ab        G7      Cm           Bb
lady cats cry.  Wild stray cat you're a real gone guy.  I wish I could be as 
Ab            G7           Cm
care-free and wild,  but I got cat class and I got cat style.

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About this song: Stray Cat Strut

"Stray Cat Strut" is the eighth track on the Stray Cats' debut album, Stray Cats, released in 1981 in the UK. In the US, the song was first released in 1982 on Built for Speed. The song became a hit in the US, peaking at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, over a year after it had reached its number eleven peak in the UK. The music video for the song received extensive airplay on MTV during the channel's early days. In the October 1998 issue of Guitar World magazine, Brian Setzer's solo from Stray Cat Strut ranked #92 on the "Top 100 Guitar Solos of All Time" list.

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