Biography:
The Tragically Hip's infectious songs, catchy melodies, inspired lyrics, and solid musicianship have secured their place as the kings of rock in Canada. Formed in the early '80s in Kingston, Ontario, they are a five-piece group of friends: Gordon Downie (primary lyricist and lead vocalist (February 6, 1963-October 17,2017), Paul Langlois and Rob Baker (guitars), Gord Sinclair (bass) and Johnny Fay (drums). For thirty years, The Tragically Hip has
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Other songs:
- 38 Years Old
- Ahead By A Century
- All Canadian Surf Club
- Another Midnight
- Are We Family Acoustic
- At The Hundredth Meridian
- Blow At High Dough
- Bobcaygeon
- Boots Or Hearts
- Born In The Water
- Bring It All Back
- Cemetary Sideroad
- Coffee Girl
- Cordelia
- Country Day
- Courage
- Dark Canuck
- Dire Wolf
- Done And Done
- Dont Wake Daddy
- Drop Off
- Eldorado
- Escape Is At Hand For The Travellin Man
- Evelyn
- Family Band
- Fiddlers Green
- Fifty Mission Cap
- Fireworks
- Flamenco
- Fly
- Fully Completely
- Get Back Again
- Gift Shop
- Grace Too
- Gus The Polar Bear From Central Park
- Im A Werewolf Baby
- In A World Possessed By The Human Mind
- In Sarnia
- In View
- Inch An Hour
- Its A Good Life If You Dont Weaken
- Killing Time
- Lake Fever
- Last American Exit
- Leave
- Little Bones
- Locked In The Trunk Of A Car
- Long Time Running
- Looking For A Place To Happen
- Love Sic
- Man Machine Poem
- Membership
- Morning Moon
- Music At Work
- My Music At Work
- Nautical Disaster
- New Maybe
- New Orleans Is Sinking
- Now The Struggle Has A Name
- Nuclear Bbq
- On The Verge
- Opiated
- Pigeon Camera
- Putting Down
- Queen Of The Furrows
- Scared
- She Didnt Know
- Sherpa
- Silver Jet
- Smalltown Bringdown
- So Hard Done By
- Something On
- Speed River
- Springtime In Vienna
- Stay
- The Bear
- The Darkest One
- The Last Of The Unplucked Gems
- The Last Recluse
- The Lookahead
- The New Maybe
- The Rules
- The Wherewithal
- Thompson Girl
- Three Pistols
- Throwing Off Glass
- Thugs
- Tired As Fuck
- Trickle Down
- Vaccination Scar
- Vapour Trails
- Waltz For Juliette
- Well Go Too
- What Blue
- Wheat Kings
- When The Weight Comes Down
- World Container
- Yer Not The Ocean
- Youre Everywhere
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!
Tabbed By Geoff Lawson ([email protected])
NOTE The formatting for UG sucks when you paste from Microsoft Word so all the chords
not be in the exact places...but they are close. Listen to the song for the timing. Also,
main riff may be hard to keep up for the whole song so you may just want to strum
the F# to A and B
to D parts for the verses.
Riff A Riff B
e|-----------------------| e|-----------------------|
B|-----------------------| B|-----------------------|
G|-----------------------| G|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-7-|
D|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-7-| D|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-7-|
A|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-7-| A|-0-2-2-0-2-2-0-2-2-0-5-|
E|-0-2-2-0-2-2-0-2-2-0-5-| E|-----------------------|
Intro: Riff A x4
Verse 1
Riff A x4
When the summer is young
and nobody has their prices
Riff B x2
No one is no one
Riff A x2
and nobody in a crisis
Chorus
D5 A5 F#5
There’s no swimming past the drop-off
D5 A5 F#5
or feeling sorry for yourself
D5 A5 F#5
Ya don’t go swimming past the drop-off
D5 A5 Riff Ax4
or else
Verse 2
Yer a pistol, yer a gun
and suddenly I have no prices
I’m like a friend of Dylan’s
our shovels meeting in some crisis
Chorus
D5 A5 F#5
But there’s no swimming past the drop-off
D5 A5 F#5
Yea we don’t replace ourselves
D5 A5 F#5
Ya don’t go swimming past the drop-off
D5 E5
or else
Bridge 1
E5 E5 E5 E5 D5
The fates are amok and spun, measured and cut and the past is meant to please us
E5 E5 E5 E5 D5
Yer a comet from earth in a Kiss Alive shirt saying, ‘holy fuck, it’s jesus!?’
E5 E5 E5 E5 D5
The surface is green and the dark interweaves in a lonely iridescence
E5 E5 E5 E5 D5 A5
It’s terribly deep and the cold is complete and it only lacks a presence
Riff A x4
and nothing else.
Verse 3
When the summer is done
and nobody sympathizes
Yer no friend of Dylan’s
Yea, you won’t see another crisis
Chorus
There’s no swimming past the drop-off
or feeling sorry for ourselves
Ya don’t go swimming past the drop-off
or else
Bridge 2
Personal stakes will get raised and get raised til your story gets compelling
If you lacked the sense or were willfully dense is forever in the telling
The surface is green and the dark interweaves in a lonely iridescence
E5 E5 E5 E5 D5 A5
It’s terribly deep and the cold is complete and it only lacks a presence
C5
and nothing else.
D5
nothing else
E5
nothing else
Riff A x4
and no one else.
Enjoy!
NOTE The formatting for UG sucks when you paste from Microsoft Word so all the chords
not be in the exact places...but they are close. Listen to the song for the timing. Also,
main riff may be hard to keep up for the whole song so you may just want to strum
the F# to A and B
to D parts for the verses.
Riff A Riff B
e|-----------------------| e|-----------------------|
B|-----------------------| B|-----------------------|
G|-----------------------| G|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-7-|
D|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-7-| D|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-7-|
A|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-7-| A|-0-2-2-0-2-2-0-2-2-0-5-|
E|-0-2-2-0-2-2-0-2-2-0-5-| E|-----------------------|
Intro: Riff A x4
Verse 1
Riff A x4
When the summer is young
and nobody has their prices
Riff B x2
No one is no one
Riff A x2
and nobody in a crisis
Chorus
D5 A5 F#5
There’s no swimming past the drop-off
D5 A5 F#5
or feeling sorry for yourself
D5 A5 F#5
Ya don’t go swimming past the drop-off
D5 A5 Riff Ax4
or else
Verse 2
Yer a pistol, yer a gun
and suddenly I have no prices
I’m like a friend of Dylan’s
our shovels meeting in some crisis
Chorus
D5 A5 F#5
But there’s no swimming past the drop-off
D5 A5 F#5
Yea we don’t replace ourselves
D5 A5 F#5
Ya don’t go swimming past the drop-off
D5 E5
or else
Bridge 1
E5 E5 E5 E5 D5
The fates are amok and spun, measured and cut and the past is meant to please us
E5 E5 E5 E5 D5
Yer a comet from earth in a Kiss Alive shirt saying, ‘holy fuck, it’s jesus!?’
E5 E5 E5 E5 D5
The surface is green and the dark interweaves in a lonely iridescence
E5 E5 E5 E5 D5 A5
It’s terribly deep and the cold is complete and it only lacks a presence
Riff A x4
and nothing else.
Verse 3
When the summer is done
and nobody sympathizes
Yer no friend of Dylan’s
Yea, you won’t see another crisis
Chorus
There’s no swimming past the drop-off
or feeling sorry for ourselves
Ya don’t go swimming past the drop-off
or else
Bridge 2
Personal stakes will get raised and get raised til your story gets compelling
If you lacked the sense or were willfully dense is forever in the telling
The surface is green and the dark interweaves in a lonely iridescence
E5 E5 E5 E5 D5 A5
It’s terribly deep and the cold is complete and it only lacks a presence
C5
and nothing else.
D5
nothing else
E5
nothing else
Riff A x4
and no one else.
Enjoy!
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