The Year Of The Cat-Live /Al Stewart/ Album (The Best Of Al Stewart) (1976)

Thank you my audiophile friend SGT (Join to see) for posting the music video of Scottish singer Alastair 'Al' Ian Stewart performing 'The Year Of The Cat' live in 1976 in honor of the fact that on September 5, 1945 UK singer, songwriter Al Stewart was born.

He is a wonderful song writer, I well remember Road to Moscow, Palace of Versailles, On the Border and Time Passages. The first album I purchased of his was Past, Present & Future which included the following tracks
1. Old Admirals; 05:54
2. Warren Harding; 02:39
3 Soho (Needless to Say); 03:55
4 The Last Day of June 1934; 04:45
5 Post World War Two Blues; 04:17
6. Roads to Moscow; 08:00
7. Terminal Eyes; 03:22
8 Nostradamus 09:46

"Year Of The Cat" written by Peter Wood, Al Stewart
Lyrics
On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolor in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came

In the year of the cat

She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears

By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, "I feel my life
Just like a river running through"

The year of the cat

Well, she looks at you so coolly
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her, to find what's waiting inside

The year of the cat

Well morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away your choice and lost your ticket
So you have to stay on

But the drumbeat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born day
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay

In the year of the cat
Year of the cat

One classic Al Stewart song inspires me to post a few more

Al Stewart Time Passages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCJkbrQF88A

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Very nice brother David. Been a while my friend.

Thanks, I’d forgotten about this group and song.