The Tragically Hip – Fiddlers Green (Guitar Tab)

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Tragically Hip - Fiddler's Green - Road Apples Tabbed by: Mason Guetter Email: [email protected] Here's my take on the Road Apples version of Fiddler's Green. This is the best way to play it with only one guitar, but it sounds even better with a second guitar, in regular tuning, strumming the chords all the way through. Intro:
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E |-0h2-----2p0-------0---0---0----------0---0---------0-----|
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Verse 1:
   September seventeen
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  for a girl I know it's mothers day
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  her son is gone alee
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   and that's where he will stay
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  wind on a weathervane
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  tearing blue eyes sailor mean
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  as Falstaff sings a sorrowful refrain
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B |-0-------0-----------0---0---0---0------------3---3-------|
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  for a boy in Fiddler's Green
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B |------------------3--0---0-0---0h2-------2h0-----0---0-----|
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Verse 2: His tiny knotted heart, well I guess it never worked too good the timber tore apart, and the water gorged the wood you can hear her whispered prayer, for men at masts that always lean the same wind that moves her hair, moves her boy through Fiddler's Green
Bridge:
            Oh,                   nothing's changed anyway
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            Oh,            nothing's changed anyway
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              Oh,          anytime today
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Verse 3: He doesn't know a soul, and there's nowhere that he's really been but he won't travel long alone, no not in Fiddler's Green balloons all filled with rain, as children's eyes turn sleepy mean as Falstaff sings a sorrowful refrain, for a boy in Fiddler's Green Coda (x5):
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| / slide up | \ slide down | h hammer-on | p pull-off | ~ vibrato | + harmonic | x Mute note