The Tragically Hip is a Canadian rock band from Kingston, Ontario, consisting of Gordon Downie (lead vocals and guitar), Paul Langlois (guitar), Rob Baker (guitar), Gord Sinclair (bass) and Johnny Fay (drums).
The band is a popular and influential band in Canada. Their acclaimed 2000 album Music at Work won Best Rock Album at the 2001 Juno Awards, as did their 1998 album Phantom Power at the 1999 Junos. In 2005 they were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
Quatro anos de trabalho duro!Neste mês de maio fizemos quatro anos no ar. Continuamos trabalhando na divulgação deste maravilhoso instrumento, obrigado por participar da nossa história!
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 D5A5F#5 There’s no swimming past the drop-off D5A5F#5 or feeling sorry for yourself D5A5F#5 Ya don’t go swimming past the drop-off D5A5 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 D5A5F#5 But there’s no swimming past the drop-off D5A5F#5 Yea we don’t replace ourselves D5A5F#5 Ya don’t go swimming past the drop-off D5E5 or else
Bridge 1 E5E5E5E5D5 The fates are amok and spun, measured and cut and the past is meant to please us E5E5E5E5D5 Yer a comet from earth in a Kiss Alive shirt saying, ‘holy fuck, it’s jesus!?’ E5E5E5E5D5 The surface is green and the dark interweaves in a lonely iridescence E5E5E5E5D5A5 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 E5E5E5E5D5A5 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.