Carrying Cathy chords by 
Ben Folds 
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Key: F# major•
Intro 1
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E
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Verse 1
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Her window was hung like a painting
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She worried it might come to life
C#
She stared for hours
F#
So obsessed was I and
self-absorbed that that I
D#m
D#dim
D
Didn't see that she was
F#
C#sus4
Cry ing
Verse 2
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Bm
There was always
E
someone carrying
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D
There was always someone carrying
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F#
Always someone's carrying Cathy
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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There were times when I'd find
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myself saying that:
"Friends,
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you don't under stand"
C#sus4
And she's different when it's
C#
just me and her, and I
F#
Closed the door and I tried
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to hang on and she
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D
Sank in to the dark
C#sus4
C#
I was over my head
Verse 4
Bm
There was always someone
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carrying
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D
There was always someone carrying
Bm
E
Always someone's carrying
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Cathy
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E
A
Verse 5
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We gave you everything
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You could have been anything
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We gave you everything
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You could have done anything
Verse 6
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But to ima gine a fall
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With no one at all to catch
you
Bm
There'd always been someone
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Interlude 2
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D
Bm
E
F#
Verse 7
Bm
Then one night she climbed
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into the picture frame
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D
Out in the frozen air
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An d out of sight
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Verse 8
Woke up sad from this dream
I've been having
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The last couple nights or so
C#sus4
C#
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With her father and brothers
we're all at the funeral
D#m
D
Carrying a box through the rain
C#sus4
Then some body says that it's
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al ways been this way
Verse 9
Bm
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Always someone's carrying
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There was always someone carrying
Bm
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F#
B
Always someone's carrying Cathy
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ChordsF# B E A D...
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D#dim
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Bm
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