Black Cat Tab

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

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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