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{{Infobox song
| name       = Kate
| cover      = Ben-Folds-Five-Kate.jpg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Ben Folds Five]]
| album      = [[Whatever and Ever Amen]]
| released   = 1997
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| genre      = Piano rock
| length     =
| label      = [[Epic Records|Epic]]
| writer     = [[Ben Folds]], [[Darren Jessee]], [[Anna Goodman (musician)|Anna Goodman]]
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| prev_title = [[Battle of Who Could Care Less (song)|Battle of Who Could Care Less]]
| prev_year  = 1997
| next_title = [[Whatever and Ever Amen|One Angry Dwarf & 200 Solemn Faces]]
| next_year  = 1997
}}
"'''Kate'''" is a song performed by [[Ben Folds Five]] released on their 1997 album  ''[[Whatever and Ever Amen]]''. Written by [[Ben Folds]], [[Darren Jessee]], and Folds's first wife, [[Anna Goodman (musician)|Anna Goodman]],<ref>[http://repertoire.bmi.com/title.asp?blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&page=1&keyid=3830936&ShowNbr=0&ShowSeqNbr=0&querytype=WorkID repertoire.bmi.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160121114857/http://repertoire.bmi.com/title.asp?blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&page=1&keyid=3830936&ShowNbr=0&ShowSeqNbr=0&querytype=WorkID |date=January 21, 2016 }}</ref> the song follows a love-struck man who is infatuated with a girl named "Kate". It peaked at #39 on the [[UK Singles Chart]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Official Charts Company — Ben Folds Five — Kate<!-- Bot generated title --> |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/Sandman |access-date=2007-08-07 |df=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BEN FOLDS FIVE {{!}} full Official Chart History {{!}} Official Charts Company |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/1142/ben-folds-five/ |access-date=2023-06-11 |website=www.officialcharts.com}}</ref>
==Music video==
The video features the three band members in a bed. The entire video was shot in one take, from a camera over the bed, facing straight down.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-02-12 |title=Listen to Ben Folds Five’s ‘Kate’ from This Is Us, Season 4, Episode 13, “A Hell of a Week: Part Three” |url=https://leosigh.com/listen-to-ben-folds-fives-kate-from-this-is-us-season-4-episode-13-a-hell-of-a-week/ |access-date=2023-06-11 |website=Leo Sigh |language=en-US}}</ref>
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