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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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-|-x-x---x-x---x-x----x-x---x-x----x-x---x----x-x---x-x----x-x-------------|--
-|---0-------------0------------0----------0------------0------------------|--
 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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-|-----------------------------/-5------------\-----------------|-------------
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   Looking back  the black path  trust him once  lost my map

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-|--------5-\--------------------------------------/-12--------\----|---------
-|-------------------------------------------------/-12--------\----|---------
-|-/-5--------------------------------/-3----------/-12--------\----|---------
-|-/-5--------------------------------/-3---------------------------|---------
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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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-|-/5\------------------------------/-3-------------\-------------|-----------
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   Don't believe I made it home and I hope he don't come home

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-|-----------------x-/-5-------------\---------------|------------------------
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  Never had anything   never lose and I never win

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-|-----/-5---------------\-------------------------------------/-12-12----\-|-
-|-----/-5---------------\--------------------/-3---\---/-3--\-/-12-------\-|-
-|-----/-5---------------\--------------------/-3---\---/-3--\--------------|-
-|-----/-5---------------\--------------------/-3---\---/-3--\--------------|-
 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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-|------------/5\------------------------/-3-------------/-12-------|---------
-|------------/5\------------------------/-3-------------/-12-------|---------
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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--------------------|--
-|-/-3-----------------------------------------------------0---------------|--
-|-/-3---------------------------------------------------------------------|--
-|-/-3--------------------------------------------------------5--/5-/5-/5--|--
-|-/-3--------------------------------------------------------0------------|--


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-|---------------------------------12vvv--------\-----|-----------------------
-|-5/7--------------------12vvvvvv--------------\-----|-----------------------
-|-----0-3b*--0-3/5-----------------------------------|-----------------------
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          *quarter step bend

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-|-------------------------------------12^-12^-12^--------------|-------------
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   Mercy  mercy  laying low   down where       the poor dogs go

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-|-/3--------\-------------------------3-----/-----/--12-vvvvv--------------|-
-|-/3--------\---------------------------3---/-----/--12-vvvvv--------------|-
-|-/3--------\-----------------------3---3---/-----/--12-vvvvv--------------|-
-|-/3--------\--------------------------------------------------------------|-
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     Lick my wounds  when I go home  death is spiraling down   death is low

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-|---------12\----------------------------------------------3/5\-|------------
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   Black cat  black cat's gone  gone for good  gone for long

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-|----------------------------------------------3-----/-----/-12-----------|--
-|------------------------------------------/3-----3--/-----/-12-----------|--
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   Can't believe that he left me alone and I hope he don't come home

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-|-/12-------/12----------/12-----12\-----/12-----|---------------------------
-|-/12-------/12----------/12-----12\-----/12-----|---------------------------
-|-/12-------/12----------/12-------------/12-----|---------------------------
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   Every day  every hour   another baby's born

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-|-/12---------------------/12------------|-----------------------------------
-|-/12---------------------/12-----12\----|-----------------------------------
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   Going to hang my head    dry and blind

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-|---------------------------/-12-----12-12------\----|-----------------------
-|------0--/3---3---/--------/-12-----12-12-----------|-----------------------
-|------0--/3-------/--------/-12-----12-12-----------|-----------------------
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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