The Tragically Hip – The Bear (Guitar)

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BAND: The Tragically Hip TITLE: The Bear ALBUM: Music @ Work TABBED BY: [email protected] Sounds good on acoustic if you play the chords as barre chords, while keeping the high e and b strings open on every chord and you just move up and down the neck, as shown below. F# 244300 E 012200 B 799800 A 577600 G 355400 [Intro] F# E [Verse 1] F# E
                                F#  E
I was first attracted by your scent

                                 F#   E
Your heart must be a caramelised onion

                         F#   E
By the time I saw your flame

                                      F#  E
It was all over for you and what's his name
[Instrumental] F# E F# E [Verse 2]
                         F#  E
I think it was Algonquin park

                          F#  E
It was so cold and winter dark

                          F#  E
A promised hibernation high

                                          B  A     B  A
Took me across the great black plate of ice

                F#  E
Now I'm the islander
[Instrumental] F# E F# E [Verse 3]
                           F#  E
I found a place to call my den

                                          F#  E
And dreamt of the ferry and the enormous man

                     F#  E
Huge as were his children

                          B  A    B  A
Following around after him

           F#  E
I'm the islander
[Bridge]
G                         A
I woke up in the furtive spring

                   B  A    B  A
More capable of anything
[Instrumental] B A B A F# E [Verse 4]
                         F#  E
I waited for more men to come

                                         F#  E
They docked their boats and cocked their guns

                                        F#  E
The time for truth and reconciliation's gone

                                         B         A
But with my belly full I intended to get something done
B A
             F#  E
I'm the islander
F# E [Bridge]
G                         A
I woke up in the dead of spring

                        B  A    B  A
More hungry than anything
[Outro]
F#           E
I'm the islander

F#           E
I'm the islander
F# E F# E F# E (4x)