Clifford Mike - Close To Cathy guitar chord

Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 16:45:42 -0400

From: Andrew Rogers

Subject: c/clifford_mike/close_to_cathy.crd

I've never much cared for this 1962 weeper from Mike Clifford, but I'm

including it at AAA anyway for historical reasons: the chord progression -

specifially the chromatically descending bass line over minor-6ths and

half-diminisheds - is an uncanny foreshadowing of the Beach Boys' 'God Only

Knows' from four years later.

                            "Close To Cathy"

                        (E. Shuman - B. Goodman)

Intro:

E

/ / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /

Verse 1:

E              B/D#

I'm so close to Cathy

  Ddim                         A/C#

I know just what she's dreaming of

   Am6/C                  E/B     A#m7-5

She always calls me up to tell me

A        B                G#m7  G7  F#m7  B7

   Every time she falls in love

Verse 2:

Oh, I'm so close to Cathy

I know her every tender sigh

She loves to cry upon my shoulder

A         B              E

   Always for some other guy

Bridge:

    Am7 D7        G

Oh, why    can't she see

    F#m7  B7   F#m7     B7         F#m7

The one  true  lasting love in her life

          B7

Should be me

Verse 3:

I'm so close to Cathy

As close as anyone can be

   Am6/C                E/B

And I'll stay close to Cathy

A#m7-5 Am6 G#m7 C#m7  F#m7        B7      E

   Hoping   someday  she'll feel close to me

[orchestral break over verse 1 chords]

[repeat verse 3]

[orchestral break over verse 1 chords; fade]

-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers