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


        (strumming)

D                                 
A thousand stone-carved saints 
       A
hang like icicles

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


    A
And all of us who worked on this 
cathedral

Continues after the ad
                D              A   
Or even spent a moment passing by
A*


D                           
All of us are swept away like 
  A
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          
   Where kids race go-carts 
    A    A*
around a moat


        (strumming)

D                          A
Once we went up there in December

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

A
Looking to find love under the ice 
machine

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

D                                 
Stumbling drunk we crawled back to
     A
 our hotel rooms

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

                    D    A
I felt your beating heart


        (single strum)

         A
Well the snow is slowly falling on 
the ice machine

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

D                             
Lawn chairs were thrown into an 
  A
empty pool

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

             D    A
Towers left behind

        OUTRO
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