Temple of The Dog - Black Cat guitar tab
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Author/Artist: Temple Of The Dog
Title: Black Cat (aka Bellshit)
Album: Unreleased demo
Transcribed by: Evan Cowan
Email: ecowan@uclink4.berkeley.edu
With slide
Tuning -- Open D -- (low to high) : DADF#AD
12^ -- harmonic at the 12th fret
Lyrics from unofficial soundgarden website
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0:36
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Black cat black cat's gone gone for good gone for long
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Don't believe that he left me alone and I hope he don't come home
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Looking back the black path trust him once lost my map
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Trust again to save my bones and I never made it back
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Black cat black cat's gone gone for good gone for long
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Don't believe I made it home and I hope he don't come home
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Never had anything never lose and I never win
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-|-----/-5---------------\-------------------------------------/-12-12----\-|-
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Lost my only love never get her back there's a black cat on my back
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Black cat black cat's gone gone for good gone for long
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Don't believe that he left me alone and I hope he don't come home
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-|-12-------/12-----12----/15-------12-12----/12----12---------------15-----|-
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-|-/-3--0-3--0-3--/6\----3------12-----12-----15--12----12-----------------|--
-|-/-3------------/6\--3----/12-----12-----15--------12--------------------|--
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-|-/-3--------------------------------------------------------5--/5-/5-/5--|--
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-|---------------------------------12vvv--------\-----|-----------------------
-|-5/7--------------------12vvvvvv--------------\-----|-----------------------
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*quarter step bend
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Mercy mercy laying low down where the poor dogs go
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-|-/3--------\-------------------------3-----/-----/--12-vvvvv--------------|-
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-|-/3--------\-----------------------3---3---/-----/--12-vvvvv--------------|-
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Lick my wounds when I go home death is spiraling down death is low
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Black cat black cat's gone gone for good gone for long
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Can't believe that he left me alone and I hope he don't come home
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Every day every hour another baby's born
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Going to hang my head dry and blind
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'Til the black cat drags it home
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Black cat black cat's gone gone for good gone for long
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Can't believe that he left me alone and I hope he don't come home
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Mercy mercy I'm laying low down where the poor dogs go
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Lick my wounds when I grow old the sun is down and gone
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Sun is down sun is down and gone (gradual volume swell on the chord)
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Sun is down sun is down and gone
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Sun is down sun is down and gone
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Black cat sun is down and gone
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Hope he don't come home Fade out
