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Song title:      Catherine Wheels
Original Album:  Together Alone

Words and Music by Neil Finn, Tim Finn and Nick Seymour
Copyright © 1993 Roundhead Music
Published by EMI Music Publishing Limited

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
The published sheet-music seems a bit off-whack (to say the least) so, 
I thought I'd try a bit of DIY...

The way to play the change from the Em back to the Cmaj7(#11), in the 
verses, is to keep your 2nd finger on the B-note (5th str; 2nd fret).
Nevertheless, it's still it a bit of a stretch... 

Chord x is a sort of A6/9 chord (minus a third and a fifth). What it's 
called is maybe less important; it sounds right... There seem also to
be some augmented eleventh chords around. Well, that's just the way it
worked out. Do they sound right...?

Guitar Figure 2 is the jam that gets played at the end of the song.
This was transcribed from a version played at The Corner Bar/Hotel, 
Melbourne, 20 November 1996.


VERSE: 
   Cmaj7(#11)         Em      Cmaj7(#11)           Em
No night      to stay in, bad moon      is rising again
     x             G
Dice rolls and you burn
     C      B7
Come down I fear
        E          Am7
As that cold wheel turns.


VERSE:
  Cmaj7(#11)        Em
I know       what I know
    Cmaj7(#11)                Em
Sad Claude's   been sleeping around
   x                G
To stroke the right nerve
      C          B7
Whose needs do I serve
   E                 Am7   C6(#11)
As Catherine's wheel turns


CHORUS:
        G          C            D
She was always the first to say gone
G             C                D
She's got her catherine wheels on
G          C            D
Always the first to say gone


VERSE:
   Cmaj7(#11)      Em         Cmaj7(#11)   Em
Go kindly     with him to his blind      apparition
      x    G               C        B7
Whose face creases up with age gone grey
      E             Am7  C6(#11)
He'll back here one day


CHORUS:
        G          C            D
She was always the first to say gone
G             C                D
She's got her catherine wheels on
G          C            D
Always the first to say gone
G             C                Esus4           G   C   D
She's got her catherine wheels on,   wheels on
          G    C    D
Catherine wheels
          G    C    D
Catherine wheels
          G    C    D
Catherine wheels

G   C   D


[when on D, transition to Guitar Figure 1 and repeat]


Guitar Figure 1

   Dsus2 - D                  Dsus4 - D
||---0//-2----0//-2----0//-2----3//-2-----||
||---3//-3----3//-3----3//-3----3//-3-----||
||*--2//-2----2//-2----2//-2----2//-2----*||
||*--------------------------------------*||
||----------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------||



BRIDGE:
      D             G
She's gone vanished in the night,
                       D
Broke off the logic of light
   D             G
He woke tore the covers back
                     D
Found he was empty inside
             D
So they were told
         G
When the moon would rise
                                 D
The best time to leave with your soul
      D         G
She's gone up towards the light
                          D    Dm
Watching her whole life unfold
C                Bbm7(#11)
Bruises come out dark



   D              G
So strong was his hold on her,
                        D
Regarded by some as his slave
   D             G
He spoke as in a stranger's tongue
                          D   Dm
Despair us and drive you away
C                Bbm7(#11)
Bruises come out dark


[Play Guitar Figure 2 for a few measures...]

Guitar Figure 2

     C6        D6

||---5-/-///---7/----------||
||---5-/-///---7/----------||
||*--5-/-///---7/---------*||
||*--5-/-///---7/---------*||
||-------------------------||
||-------------------------||


[...then end on C6]



CHORDS:
Cmaj7(#11) 024010
Em         022000
x          x044xx
G          300033
C          032010
B7         x21200
E          022100
Am7        x02013
C6(#11)    x02012
D          xx0232
Esus4      022200
Dm         xx0231
Dsus2      xx0230
Dsus4      xx0233
Bbm7(#11)  010230
C6         xx5555
D6         xx7777