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Tuning: Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb
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Kathy’s Song – Paul Simon
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Written by: Paul Simon
From the solo album "The Paul Simon Songbook" (1965)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: one step down
This is not the Simon and Garfunkel version of this beautiful song, but
the solo version that Simon recorded in London in 1965.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9KNS7cHIHs
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tuning: Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb
play: G
key: Gb/F#
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CHORDS
E-A-D-G-B-e
D * 5-x-4-0-3-5 - technically speaking: D(add11)/A
C/G 3-x-2-0-1-3
Asus2/G 3-x-2-2-0-0
Bm/F# 2-x-4-4-3-2
Gadd9 3-x-0-2-x-3
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[Intro]
| D * | % | % | % |
| G C/G | G C/G | G C/G | G C/G |
[Verse]
G I hear the C/Gdrizzle of the Grain
Am Asus4/G C /B /A Bm/F#
Like a memo- ry it falls
G Soft and Bm/F#warm conGtinuCing
Am Asus2/G D | G C/G | G C/G | G C/G | G C/G |
Tapping on my roof and walls
[Verse]
G C/G | G C/G | G |
And from the shelter of my mind
Am Asus2/G C /B /A Bm/F#
Through the window of my eyes
I Ggaze beBm/F#yond the Grain drenched Cstreets
Am D | G C/G | G C/G | G C/G | G C/G |
To England where my heart lies
[Interlude]
| D * | % | % | D * C/G |
| G C/G | G C/G | G C/G | G C/G |
[Verse]
G My mind's disC/Gtracted and difGfused
Am Asus2/G C /B /A Bm/F#
My thoughts are many miles a- way
They Glie with Bm/F#you when Gyou're aCsleep
Am Asus2/G D | G C/G | G C/G | G C/G | G C/G |
And kiss you when you-ou-ou start your day
[Verse]
And a Gsong I was C/Gwriting is left Gundone
Am Asus2/G C /B /A Bm/F#
I don't know why I spent my time
G Writing Bm/F#songs I Gcan't beClieve
Am Asus2/G D | G C/G | G C/G | G C/G | G C/G |
With words that tear a-a-nd strain to rhyme
[Interlude]
| D * | % | % | D * C/G |
| G C/G | G C/G | G C/G | G C/G |
[Verse]
G And so you C/Gsee I have come to Gdoubt
Am Asus2/G C /B /A Bm/F#
All that I once held as true
G I stand aBm/F#lone withGout beCliefs
Am Asus2/G D | G C/G | G C/G | G C/G | G C/G |
The only truth I know is you
[Verse]
G And as I C/Gwatch the drops of Grain
Am Asus2/G C /B /A Bm/F#
Weave their weary paths and die
G I know that Bm/F#I am Glike the Crain
Am Asus2/G D | G C/G | G C/G | G C/G | G C/G |
There but for the grace of you go I
[Instrumental verse] (+ coda)
| G | Gadd9 | G | % | % |
| Am | Asus2/G | C /B /A | Bm/F# | % |
| G | Bm/F# | G | C | % |
| Am | Asus2/G | D/A | G