Stray Cat Strut by The Stray Cats

Stray Cat Strut  Stray Cats

gilstorf@sympatico.ca

Cm   Bb   Ab   G 
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh,  x4

Cm               Bb        Ab           G
Black and orange stray cat sittin' on a fence.

Cm        Bb              Ab      G
Ain't got enough dough to pay the rent.

Cm       Bb        Ab      G       Cm (no cord)
I'm flat broke but I don't care,   I strut right by with my tail in the air.

Fm        Eb          C#     C7         Fm         Eb       C#         C7
Stray cat strut I'm a ladies cat, I'm a feline Casanova hey man that's that.

      Fm          Eb           C#       C7   Fm (no cord)
Get a shoe thrown at me from a mean old man. Get my dinner from a garbage can.

(instrumental) Cm   Bb  G#   G Cm  Ya don't cross my path.    Solo

Verse 2
Fm      Fm7 Fm         Fm7  Cm                Fm
I don't bother chasing mice around. Whoa no.  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        G      Cm        Bb           Ab        G     Cm             Bb
lady cats cry.  Wild stray cat you're a real gone guy.  I wish I could be as

Ab            G            Cm(no cord)
care-free and wild,  but I got cat class and I got cat style.

solo
|Cm  Bb  |Ab  G  | etc.

repeat verse 2
Fm      Fm7 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        G     Cm         Bb           Ab        G     Cm             Bb
lady cats cry.  Wild stray cat you're a real gone guy.  I wish I could be as

Ab            G            Cm(no cord)
care-free and wild,  but I got cat class and I got cat style.