Biography:
Ben Folds Five is a trio formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States in 1994, who until their breakup in 2000 were a mainstay of Piano rock. Much of their work was influenced by jazz, evident in frequent improv-styled passages through bridge and/or ending.
The members of the band are Ben Folds, the lead singer and pianist, who also wrote most of the songs; Robert Sledge on bass; and Darren Jessee on drums. The group enjoyed the success of the single Brick in 1997
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Other songs:
- Brick
- Do It Anyway
- Draw A Crowd
- Fred Jones Part 2
- Landed
- Magic
- Not The Same
- The Luckiest
- Air
- Alice Childress
- Annie Waits
- Army
- Away When You Were Here
- Bad Idea
- Battle Of Who Could Care Less
- Best Imitation
- Bizarre Christmas Incident
- Boxing
- Cigarette
- Dont Change Your Plans
- Eddie Walker
- Emaline
- Erase Me
- Evaporated
- Fired
- Hold That Thought
- Hospital Song
- House
- Jackson Cannery
- Julianne
- Just Pretend
- Kate
- Leather Jacket
- Lonely Christmas Eve
- Luckiest
- Lullabye
- Mess
- Michael Praytor Five Years Later
- Missing The War
- Narcolepsy
- On Being Frank
- One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces
- One Down
- Philosophy
- Rain Drops Keep Falling
- Red Is Blue
- Rockstar
- Selfless Cold And Composed
- She Dont Use Jelly
- Silver Street
- Sky High
- Smoke
- Song For The Dumped
- Stevens Last Night In Town
- Stumblin Home Winter Blues
- The Ascent Of Stan
- The Last Polka
- Twin Falls
- Underground
- Video
- War
- Wheres Summer B
- Your Redneck Past
- Youve Got To Learn To Live With What You Are
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
...KATE... by Ben Folds Five
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*from 'Whatever And Ever Amen' (1997)*
(modified from Brent Ritchey's original tab)
*CAPO 3rd FRET*
(Original Key: F)
Intro:
D
Verse 1:
D Dmaj7
She plays 'Wipeout' on the drums, the squirrels and the birds come,
Em
Gather round to sing the guitar.
Gmaj7 D
Oh I, have you got nothing to say?
Verse 2:
D Dmaj7
When all words fail she speaks, her mix-tape's a masterpiece,
Em
Walks through the garden, so the roses can see,
Gmaj7 D
Oh I, have you got nothing to say?
Chorus 1:
F#m7 F7 Em7
And you can see, the daisies in her footsteps.
G6 Em7b5 D
Dande-lions, butter-flies, I wanna be; Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate.
Verse 3:
D Dmaj7
Every-day she wears the same thing, I think she smokes pot,
Em
She's everything I want, she's everything I'm not.
Gmaj7 D
Oh I, have you got nothing to say?
Chorus 2:
F#m7 F7 Em7
She never gets wet, she smiles and it's a rainbow.
G6 Em7b5 D
And she speaks and she breathes; I wanna be Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate.
Middle 8:
Am7 Gmaj7 Gm7 Fmaj7
Down by the Rosemary and Cameron, she hands out The Bhagavad Gita.
Fm7 Bb7
I see her around every couple days,
Em7 Em7b5 D Gm
I wanna meet her so I can say; hey Kate!
Interlude:
D Dmaj7 Em7, Gmaj7 D
D Dmaj7 Em7
Ooh la la la, ooh la la la, ooh la la la, la.
Gmaj7 Gm D
Doo doo doo doo, doo doo, doo, doo.
Chorus 3:
F#m7 F7 Em7
She never gets wet, she smiles and it's a rainbow.
G6 Em7b5
You can see, I wanna, wanna, wanna, wanna be...
Coda:
D Gm
Kate, Kate, Kate, na, na.
D Gm
Kate, Kate, Kate, na na, na na, na na.
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
---------------
D Dmaj7 Em Gmaj7 F#m7 F7 Em7 G6
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
xx0232 xx0222 022000 3x443x 242222 131211 022030 322000
Em7b5 Am7 Gm7 Fmaj7 Fm7 Bb7 Gm
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
xx2333 x02013 353333 x03210 131111 x13131 355333
Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2004 ([email protected])
----------..................
*from 'Whatever And Ever Amen' (1997)*
(modified from Brent Ritchey's original tab)
*CAPO 3rd FRET*
(Original Key: F)
Intro:
D
Verse 1:
D Dmaj7
She plays 'Wipeout' on the drums, the squirrels and the birds come,
Em
Gather round to sing the guitar.
Gmaj7 D
Oh I, have you got nothing to say?
Verse 2:
D Dmaj7
When all words fail she speaks, her mix-tape's a masterpiece,
Em
Walks through the garden, so the roses can see,
Gmaj7 D
Oh I, have you got nothing to say?
Chorus 1:
F#m7 F7 Em7
And you can see, the daisies in her footsteps.
G6 Em7b5 D
Dande-lions, butter-flies, I wanna be; Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate.
Verse 3:
D Dmaj7
Every-day she wears the same thing, I think she smokes pot,
Em
She's everything I want, she's everything I'm not.
Gmaj7 D
Oh I, have you got nothing to say?
Chorus 2:
F#m7 F7 Em7
She never gets wet, she smiles and it's a rainbow.
G6 Em7b5 D
And she speaks and she breathes; I wanna be Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate.
Middle 8:
Am7 Gmaj7 Gm7 Fmaj7
Down by the Rosemary and Cameron, she hands out The Bhagavad Gita.
Fm7 Bb7
I see her around every couple days,
Em7 Em7b5 D Gm
I wanna meet her so I can say; hey Kate!
Interlude:
D Dmaj7 Em7, Gmaj7 D
D Dmaj7 Em7
Ooh la la la, ooh la la la, ooh la la la, la.
Gmaj7 Gm D
Doo doo doo doo, doo doo, doo, doo.
Chorus 3:
F#m7 F7 Em7
She never gets wet, she smiles and it's a rainbow.
G6 Em7b5
You can see, I wanna, wanna, wanna, wanna be...
Coda:
D Gm
Kate, Kate, Kate, na, na.
D Gm
Kate, Kate, Kate, na na, na na, na na.
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
---------------
D Dmaj7 Em Gmaj7 F#m7 F7 Em7 G6
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
xx0232 xx0222 022000 3x443x 242222 131211 022030 322000
Em7b5 Am7 Gm7 Fmaj7 Fm7 Bb7 Gm
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
xx2333 x02013 353333 x03210 131111 x13131 355333
Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2004 ([email protected])
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