Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 00:31:39 -0400
From: Nick and Jen Rivette 
Subject: i/indigo_girls/caramia.crd

CARAMIA (Emily Saliers)
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>From the album "Shaming of the Sun"

The song is in 6/8, each chord delineated below represents 1/2 measure or
count of 3.  Please read the notes at the bottom for some of the chord
approximations.

(Intro)
D5   D5/B   D5/C#   D5   Am   Am/B   Am/C   Asus2   (x2)

D5   D5   C9   Eb   D   Dsus4   D   D

(Verse 1)
D   D   D   D   E   E   E   E
Cara...

         Em   Em   G   C#dim   D   Gm   D
You used to...

       D         D   D   D   D   B7   B7   B7   B7
'Cause you hurt...

              Em   Em   G   C#dim   D   Dsus4   D

    ...your notebook...

    D         Bm7   Bm7   Bm7   Bm7   Em   Em   Em
And some say...

Em           Dm   Dm   Dm   Dm   D   D   D
Will you get...

D        G       G   C#dim   C#dim   D   D   D
How you mixed...

  D               Em   Em   G   C#dim
Until your chemistry...

        D5   D5/B   D5/C#   D   Am   Am/B   Am/C   Asus2
...to rage

(Refrain)
D5   D5/B   D5/C#   D5   Am   Am/B   Am/C   Asus2
Why...

D5   D5/B   D5/C#   D5   Am   Am/B   Am/C   Asus2
Where...

    D5             D5/B   D5/C#   D5
For three nights...

            Am         Am/B   Am/C   Asus2
But I've forgotten...

              D5      D5/B   D5/C#   D5
And there's a sea...

        Am        Am/B   Am/C   Asus2
And I'm struck....


D5   D5   C9   Eb5   D   Dsus4   D   D

(Interlude)
D5   D5/E   D5/G   D5/F#   D5/C   D5/C   D5/C   D5/C   (x2)

(Verse 2 - just like 1, except for a tacet near the end that you'll
 know where to place from listening to the recording)

(Repeat Refrain)

Notes:

Drop D tuning (DADGBE) is suggested.  For the most part, play the D5 by
just playing a D chord and muting the high-E string.  The exception is
the interlude, where if you can reach your pinky up to grab an upper A
(5th fret), you'll get a much more interesting imitation of the actual
song.

The 2nd and 3rd chord may actually be variants of G6, rather than D5.
Playing them as (X2003X) and (X4003X) sounds just as good, possibly
more exotic than the D5 variations (X2023X) and (X4023X).

The only remotely weird chord is the C#dim (X45650).  Play the D-Gm-D
by sliding from the D into a short version of Gm (XXX333) and back
to D again.

- Nick Rivette (rivettes@earthlink.net)