The Tragically Hip – A Beautiful Thing (Guitar)

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Chords

[Intro] F Bb x2 [Verse 1]
F                           Bb
In the ulcerating silence perspective comes

F                               Bb
The way it always does for it's ransom

F                Bb
So randomly somebody calls

 F                            Bb
The phone rings and it brings Niagara Falls
[Chorus]
      Dm
At three o'clock in the morning

     Dm
"You'd better be dying" and you were

     Dm
So we talked about time and where it went

     Dm
Unremarkable events

    Dm                                      Bb
And how one day took two days and they got spent

             F              C
How you'd continue, carefully, in degrees

     F           Bb              F
Trying to do one true beautiful thing

                    Bb
And your beautiful thing, It'd be

             Dm
A beautiful thing,   To see

               Bb
That beautiful thing

   C
Continuing
[Bridge] F Bb X2 [Verse 2]
F                    Bb
"I don't live there, I just commute"

  F                             Bb
Secretly cradling a joint and I might puke

  F                   Bb
A fumble with the keys under duress

 F                    Bb
The point is this is practise duress
[Chorus]
Dm
At three o'clock in the morning

  Dm
"You'd better be dying" and you were

   Dm
So we talked about things and where they went

   Dm
Big remarkable events

     Dm                                     Bb
And how each day's a new day and they get spent

           F           C
How you'd continue, artfully, like the breeze

   F             Bb               F
Trying to do one true beautiful thing

F                   Bb
And your beautiful thing,  It'd be

Dm
A beautiful thing,   To see

                Bb
That beautiful thing

      C
Continuing

                  Bb
Your beautiful thing

    C
Continuing
[Solo] C Bb X3 C F Bb X4 [Outro]
                  Dm
And your beautiful thing, Will be

             Bb
A beautiful thing, To me

             Dm
A beautiful thing

     C
Continuing

    Dm
Your beautiful thing

      C
Continuing

F Bb  X3  
 fade out
When playing Bb the high e string is barred with the forefinger [first fret] to provide an F note