BAnd- Temple Of The Dog
Song- Black Cat
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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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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*quarter step bend
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/temple_of_the_dog/black_cat_tab.html ]
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Mercy mercy laying low down where the poor dogs go
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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
