Tom: C
Picking patterns for the chords:
F C Am G Em
E|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
B|----1------|----1------|----1------|----1------|----0------|
G|------0----|------0----|------0----|------0----|------0----|
D|--------3--|--------2--|--------2--|--------0--|--------2--|
A|-(3)-------|--3--------|--0--------|-----------|-----------|
E|--1--------|-----------|-----------|--3--------|--0--------|
[Intro]
F
[Verse I-a]
C F Am G
Hey Kathy, can you hear me? How you doing? I could use you tonight.
C F Am G
Hey Kathy, are you listening? I gotta question, and you were usually right.
[Verse I-b]
Em F C G
You told me to go to Susequahanna, and it changed my whole life.
Em F C G
You said not to rush home in a snowstorm, and we got stuck there on the drive.
Am G
You came to rescue me.
F
You’d always rescue me.
[Verse II-a]
C F Am G
Hey Kathy, I started a garden, but I wasn’t blessed with your green thumb.
C F Am G
So, there on my skin, I planted roses, I planted hyacinths, I planted mums
[Verse II-b]
Em F C G
and a bouquet of hydrangeas ‘cause they remind me of you,
Em F C G
and one single sunflower like the ones you always grew,
Am G
and a lilly for my sister.
F
Ma, she misses you.
[Verse III-a]
C F Am G
Hey Kathy, when we were children, you made us feel like we were the sun.
C F Am G
I never knew that we didn’t have money. You kept us learning and we didn’t want.
[Verse III-b]
Em F C G
You took us to Tuscarora; we had picnics on the beach.
Em F C G
Sewed us all of our own costumes; we were the kings of Halloween.
Am G
You drove Ian down to Philly
F
to witness Springsteen.
[Verse IV-a]
C F Am G
Hey Kathy, when I think that I’m crumbling, I stand up straighter ‘cause you built me strong.
C F Am
You taught us empathy. You taught us to take care of each other. You taught us selflessness.
G
You taught us love.
[Verse IV-b]
Em F Am G
So we’ll light bayberry candles every year on Christmas Eve,
Em F Am G
and we’ll be home for Sunday dinner; we’ll cook all your old recipes.
Am G
We’ll keep moving forward.
F
That’s what you’d wanna see.
C (let ring)
Hey Kathy...
