Close To Cathy

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)

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Verse 1:

I'm so close to Cathy

I know just what she's dreaming of

Am6/C E/B A#m7-5

She always calls me up to tell me

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

Always for some other guy

Oh, why can't she see

The one true lasting love in her life

Should be me

Verse 3:

I'm so close to Cathy

As close as anyone can be

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

-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers