The Tragically Hip – The Drop-Off (Guitar)

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Tabbed By Geoff Lawson ([email protected]) 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

D5                A5                          F#5
There’s no swimming past the drop-off

D5                 A5           F#5
or feeling sorry for yourself

D5                   A5                       F#5
Ya don’t go swimming past the drop-off

D5 A5 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

    D5          A5                           F#5
But there’s no swimming past the drop-off

D5           A5                   F#5
Yea we don’t replace ourselves

D5                   A5                 F#5
Ya don’t go swimming past the drop-off

   D5   E5
or else

Bridge 1

        E5               E5                 E5                           E5 D5
The fates are amok and spun, measured and cut and the past is meant to please us

            E5            E5              E5                      E5                 D5
Yer a comet from earth in a Kiss Alive shirt saying, ‘holy fuck, it’s jesus!?’

            E5         E5                             E5             E5             D5
The surface is green and the dark interweaves in a lonely iridescence

     E5      E5               E5            E5                  D5                  A5
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

     E5     E5                E5            E5                D5                    A5
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. Enjoy!