The Tragically Hip – Fly (Guitar)

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World Container [Verse 1]
D     G
Seventy days to cross the ocean

D     G
Seventy nights where no one’s gonna hear me fall

D     A
Freddie Mercury, “I’ve sometimes wished

G
I’d never been born at all”
[Verse 2]
D     G
I remain unphotographed yea

D     G
I don’t exaggerate my intelligence

D     A
I might turn a broom into a tree

G
But I’ll never be one of them
[Chorus]
Bm G      D        G
I fly,         cause there’s no why in getting beaten up by

Bm G      A
a guy       who cries before he fights
[Verse 3]
D     G
I don’t want em to see me like this

D     G
The way they like to kick people when their down

D     A
You said, ‘please stop worrying bout this

G
They stop kicking once you’re down’
[Verse 4]
D     G
There’s Mistaken Point, Newfoundland

D     G
There’s Moonbeam, Ontari-ari-o

D     A
There are places I’ve never been

G
and always wanted to go
[Chorus]
Bm G      D        G
I fly,          cause woe betide a guy who just lives to fight

Bm G      A
Fly,           love is to try and die trying
[Bridge]
Bm C D
Fly, yea, that’s right

Bm C D
Fly, yea, that’s right

Bm C D D  G A
Try, love is to try and die trying
[Solo] Bm G D G Bm G A [Verse 5]
D     G
Coastline rising out of the ocean

D     G
Coastline rises like a pair of glowing thighs

D     A
There's something down deep inside me says,

G
‘Where ya been all my life.’
[Chorus]
Bm G   D  G
Fly, turn your back, get your face in the sky

Bm G      A
Fly, love is to try and die trying

Bm G   D  G
Try, left and right, across your mind

Bm G      A
Try, love is to try and die trying
[Outro] D A G D A G D A G
D A G
D…….(fade)