...CARRYING CATHY... by Ben Folds
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*from 'Rockin' The Suburbs' (2001)*
*CAPO 4th FRET*
(Original Key: F#)
Intro:
D G, D G, C F, C F
D G, D G, C F, C, Bbmaj7,
DGD
Verse 1:
DD/C
Her window was hung like a painting,
D/BBbmaj7
She worried it might come to life.
DA
She stared for hours.
DD/C
So obsessed was I, and self-absorbed that I,
D/BBbmajDA
Didn't see that she was, cry-ing.
Chorus 1:
GmC
There was always someone carrying,
AmDm7
There was always someone carrying,
GmCD
Always someone's carrying Cathy.
Interlude:
D G, D G, C F, C (x2)
Verse 2:
DD/C
There were times when I'd find myself saying that;
D/BBbmaj7
"Friends, you don't understand",
DA
And she's different, when it's just me and her.
DD/C
And I closed the door and I tried to hang on,
D/BBbmaj7DA
And she sank into the dark. I was over my head.
Chorus 2:
GmC
There was always someone carrying,
AmDm7
There was always someone carrying,
GmCD
Always someone's carrying Cathy.
Interlude:
D G, D G, C F, C
Bridge 1:
Bbmaj7D
We gave you everything; you could have been anything.
Bbmaj7D
We gave you everything; you could have done anything.
Bbmaj7Dm6DDm6D
But to i-magine a fall, with no one at all to catch you.
Chorus 3:
AmDm7
There'd always been someone...
GCDGmC
Then one night, she climbed into the picture frame.
AmDm7GmCDD
Out in the frozen air, and out, of sight.
Verse 3:
DD/C
Woke up sad from this dream I've been having,
D/BBbmAj7
The last couple nights or so.
DD/C
With her father and brothers, we're all at the funeral,
D/BBbmaj7
Carrying a box through the rain.
DA
Then somebody says that it's always been this way.
Chorus 4:
GmC
There was always someone carrying,
AmDm7
There was always someone carrying,
GmC
Always someone's carrying...
GmCD
Always someone's carrying... Cathy.
Outro:
D G, D G, C F, D
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