Biography:
Catherine Tift Merritt (born January 8, 1975, in Houston, Texas, but moved to Raleigh, North Carolina soon after) is a critically acclaimed American singer-songwriter, musician. She is currently based in New York.
Merritt's father taught her guitar chords and Percy Sledge songs. She began her professional career in 1998 with her band The Carbines playing small clubs. In her early twenties, though Tift had gigged by herself, she decided she was not very good at music and better suited for writing short stories.
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Other songs:
- Aint Looking Closely
- All The Reasons We Dont Have To Fight
- Another Country
- Bird Of Freedom
- Broken
- Diamond Shoes
- Drifted Apart
- Eastern Light
- Engine To Turn
- Feel Of The World
- Feeling Of Beauty
- Good Hearted Man
- Hopes Too High
- I Am Your Tambourine
- I Know Him Too
- I Know What Im Looking For Now
- Keep You Happy
- Laid A Highway
- Late Night Pilgrim
- Little Birds
- Live Till You Die
- Mixtape
- Morning Is My Destination
- My Heart Is Free
- Never Talk About It
- Plainest Thing
- See You On The Moon
- Shadow In The Way
- Six More Days Of Rain
- Small Talk Relations
- Something To Me
- Still Not Home
- Still Pretending
- Stray Paper
- Sunday
- Supposed To Make You Happy
- Sweet Spot
- Tender Branch
- Too Soon To Go
- Traveling Alone
- Trouble Over Me
- Virginia No One Can Warn You
- Wait It Out
- Write My Ticket
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Small Talk Relations
by Tift Merritt on "Traveling Alone"
Ok, so she plays this on piano but if you want the chords for guitar here they are
as I've figured them:
(No capo). All chords in song= C, Am, A#, F, Em. *Note: add fun walk-downs in
between chords for that bluesy feel.
C Am
Skipped a stone and watched it go
C Am
the arc and then the undertoe
C Am Em F
thinking a day is something like a prayer
So much to ask you started soft
Then the wait of locks come off
In the end you just hope someone's there
CHORUS:
C Em F
Cuz all these small talk relations
C Em F
No they ain't nothin' for me
C-Em A# F C
No nobody here knows the way that I feel
VERSE
There's no one to answer to
Just the dark and me and you
All the angels standin' round just wishin'
For the drag there of your smoke
Taste of skin, scent of hope
Raise their skirts up when no words are rising
CHORUS
Small Talk relations
I can't hear one thing from you
Don't nobody here at all know the way that I feel
BRIDGE
G
Workman in the street below
C
Softly play a radio
G C
Hear my static through the traffic
A#
Crowd just turns to leave
F
Secret current underneath
Em C
Cannot be heard above the racket
CHORUS
Enjoy! Tift is awesome!
by Tift Merritt on "Traveling Alone"
Ok, so she plays this on piano but if you want the chords for guitar here they are
as I've figured them:
(No capo). All chords in song= C, Am, A#, F, Em. *Note: add fun walk-downs in
between chords for that bluesy feel.
C Am
Skipped a stone and watched it go
C Am
the arc and then the undertoe
C Am Em F
thinking a day is something like a prayer
So much to ask you started soft
Then the wait of locks come off
In the end you just hope someone's there
CHORUS:
C Em F
Cuz all these small talk relations
C Em F
No they ain't nothin' for me
C-Em A# F C
No nobody here knows the way that I feel
VERSE
There's no one to answer to
Just the dark and me and you
All the angels standin' round just wishin'
For the drag there of your smoke
Taste of skin, scent of hope
Raise their skirts up when no words are rising
CHORUS
Small Talk relations
I can't hear one thing from you
Don't nobody here at all know the way that I feel
BRIDGE
G
Workman in the street below
C
Softly play a radio
G C
Hear my static through the traffic
A#
Crowd just turns to leave
F
Secret current underneath
Em C
Cannot be heard above the racket
CHORUS
Enjoy! Tift is awesome!
Tiger Trap
Tigercub
Tigers On Trains
Tiggs Da Author
Tiggy