Nine Cats Tabs & Lyrics by Porcupine Tree

Nine Cats

guitar tabs lyrics

Porcupine Tree

NINE CATS (S. Wilson - A. Duffy)

Am D
The butterfly sailed on the breeze
Fmaj7 E
Past a field of barbed wire trees
Am D
Where golden dragons chased around
Fmaj7 E
Pampered poppies on the ground

C Am Fmaj7
Two silver trout sat way on high
C G Am Fmaj
And watched a royal samurai
C Am Fmaj7
Plant two black orchids in a box
C G Am Fmaj7
And strap it to a laughing fox

Am D
A minstrel bought a crooked spoon
Am D
He gave it to a blue baboon
Am D
Who filled it full of virgin snow
Fmaj7 G Am
And watched it in the afterglow


Fat toad stood in his ballet shoes
Teaching sixteen kangaroos
How to skip across a lake
They found it hard to stay awake
A pharaoh played a merry tune
And watched nine cats dance on the moon
I didn't know what all this meant
I didn't know why I'd been sent.

The Insignificance version of Nine Cats has the following additional verse at the end:

I threw 5 clocks down on my bed
The chimes danced out on golden threads
And turned to footprints on my wall
Sequined tears began to fall