�And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps

By Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull�s Heavy Horses

Transcription by Peter Dawson

Capo III

3:4 time

 

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[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.