Cathedral In The Dell

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                         Cathedral in the Dell - Andrew Bird
                            Written by The Handsome Family
                        Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of
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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 A and D. I'll note it with an A*
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        VERSE

        (single strum)

A
  The cathedral in Cologne looks like a spaceship

A                      E                A   A*
  Like the hand of God falling from the sky


        (strumming)

D                                        A
A thousand stone-carved saints hang like icicles

    B7                   E                   D    A
But icicles don't take a thousand years to die


    A
And all of us who worked on this cathedral

                D              A   A*
Or even spent a moment passing by

D                             A
All of us are swept away like breadcrumbs

     B7
What comfort does it bring

        E               D     A
Soaring towers left behind

            D       A
Towers left behind


        (single strum)

               A
Well there's a fiberglass castle in Wisconsin

A                     E              A    A*
   Where kids race go-carts around a moat


        (strumming)

D                          A
Once we went up there in December

     B7                      E                     D    A
When all the waterslides and fudge shops were closed

A
Looking to find love under the ice machine

                   D              A     A*
But all we did was drink in empty bars

D                                      A
Stumbling drunk we crawled back to our hotel rooms

B7                     E                     D   A
I fell against you and felt your beating heart

                    D    A
I felt your beating heart


        (single strum)

         A
Well the snow is slowly falling on the ice machine

A                    E                    A*
  And the moon shone hazy through the pine

D                               A
Lawn chairs were thrown into an empty pool

  B7                    E                D  A
A dog chained to a tree barking at the sky

             D    A
Towers left behind

        OUTRO
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