Andrew Bird – Cathedral In The Dell (Guitar)

Capo 2
Key
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Chords

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by The Handsome Family Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The strum pattern is very country. To make it sound right, play an alternating bass line between strums.
This walk-up is used occasionally between G and C. I'll note it with an G*
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[Verse 1]
G                                                  G
  The cathedral in Cologne looks like a spaceship

          G           D7              G   G*
Like the hand of God falling from the sky

   C                                      G
A thousand stone-carved saints hang like icicles

      A7                  D                 D7   C    G
But icicles don't take a thousand years to die
[Verse 2]
    G
And all of us who worked on this cathedral

    G            D7            G   G*
Or even spent a moment passing by

C                             G
All of us are swept away like breadcrumbs

      A7             
What comfort does it bring

         D            D7     C   G
Soaring towers left behind

            C       G
Towers left behind
[Verse 3]
               G                              G
Well there's a fiberglass castle in Wisconsin

       G         D7                G    G*
Where kids race go-carts around a moat

C                          G
Once we went up there in December

     A7                      D                D7    C     G
When all the waterslides and fudge shops were closed
[Verse 4]
G
Looking to find love under the ice machine

     G              D7             G     G*
But all we did was drink in empty bars

C                                      G
Stumbling drunk we crawled back to our hotel rooms

A7                      D                D7   C    G
I fell against you and felt your beating heart

                    C    G
I felt your beating heart
[Verse 5]
         G                                          G
Well the snow is slowly falling on the ice machine

        G           D7               G    G*
And the moon shone hazy through the pine

C                               G
Lawn chairs were thrown into an empty pool

  A7                    D               D7  C   G
A dog chained to a tree barking at the sky

            C    G
Towers left behind

[Outro]
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