By Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull’s Heavy Horses
Transcription by Peter Dawson
Capo III
3:4 time
Two suggestions for playing Am & Dm
accompaniment...
~ |Am | |Dm
strum | ▲ ▼ ▼ ▲ ▼ |▲ ▼ ▼ ▲ ▼ | | ▲ ▼ ▼ ▲ ▼ |▲
▼ ▼ ▲ ▼ |
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3|---0---0-----|------------|
|---1---------|------------|
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3|---1-----1---|------------|
|---3---------|--3---------|
~ 3|---2-------2-|--2---2-0---| |---2---2-----|--2---------|
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3|---2---------|--2-------2-|
|-0-------3-0-|0-0---0-----|
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3|-0-----------|0-----------|
|-------------|--------3-0-|
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3|-------------|------------|
|-------------|------------|
the second emphasizes the bass.
~ |Am | |Dm
strum | ▲ ▼ ▼ ▲ ▼ |▲ ▼ ▼ ▲ ▼ | | ▲ ▼ ▼ ▲ ▼ |▲
▼ ▼ ▲ ▼ |
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3|---0---0-----|------------|
|---1---1-----|------------|
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3|---1---1-----|--1---1-----|
|---3---3-----|--3---3-----|
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3|---2---2-----|--2---2-----|
|---2---2-----|--2---2-----|
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3|---2---2-----|--2---2-----|
|-0-------3-0-|0-0---0-----|
~
3|-0-------3-0-|0-----------|
|-------------|--------3-0-|
~
3|-------------|--------3-0-| |-------------|------------|
[Am]Muscled, black with steel-green eye
[Dm]Swishing through the rye grass
With [Am]thoughts of mouse-and-apple pie
Tail [Dm]balancing at half mast.
And the [C]Mouse Police [D]Never Sleeps [Dsus4 D Dsus2
D]
[G]lying in the [F]cherry tree. [notes f e f d e f]
[Am]Savage bed foot-warmer
Of purist feline ancestry.
Look out little furry folk!
He’s the [Dm]all night working cat
[Am]Eats but one in every ten
[Dm]Leaves the others on the mat.
And the [C]Mouse Police [D]Never Sleeps [Dsus4 D Dsus2
D]
[G]Waiting by the [F]cellar door. [notes f e f d e f]
[Am]Window-box town-crier;
Birth and death registrar.
Instrumental over Am
[Am]With claws that rake a furrow red
[Dm]Licensed to mutilate.
From [Am]warm milk on a lazy day
To [Dm]dawn patrol on hungry hate
No, the [C]Mouse Police [D]Never Sleeps [Dsus4 D Dsus2
D]
[G]Climbing on the [F]ivy. [notes f e f d e f]
[Am]Windy roof-top weathercock
Warm-blooded night on a cold tile.