The Tragically Hip – Trickle Down (Guitar)

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## # Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:49:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Sacha Mallais <[email protected]> Subject: CRD: "Trickle Down" by The Tragically Hip Beautifully written Hip song about trickle down economics (my interpretation, of course).

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from "Up To Here" (or "up to here")

Intro: | E | D | E | E | x4 Verse 1:

|E           |E  |A           |A
  Old lion's dyin, got left behind

          |E                |E
  Cut your teeth, lose your meat

      |A              |A
  And man it's just a matter of time

|E             |E    |A            |A
  Key's to the cuffs, you might be king

         |B         |B          |B     |B
  That's it, that's all, that's everything

Verse 2: Skeletons come here to dance Where barrooms beat their brothers Into a bloody trance What's the deal? What did I do? Who cops all the cops is all I asked of you Chorus:

|E   |D     |E              |E
  Lining up, waiting on the trickle down

|E         |D    |E             |E
  Somethings up, taking time to get around

|E    |D    |A                 |A
  Belly up, all the drinks are on the Crown

|A            |A          |E            |E
  It's just a matter of a trickle down

Verse 3: Twenty miles before the crash That's the style for a while And man I think it's gonna last "Hit the brakes" is all you can say Conductor says we'll save them for another rainy day Chorus Solo: | E | D | E | E | x10 | E | D | A | A |

|   A   |   A   |   E   |   E   |
[sort of...]

Verse 1 Chorus Chorus (screaming) Outro:

|A/A4         |A          |E            |E     x2
  It's just a matter of a trickle down

| E | A/A4 | E | - | x1

Chords are: (I don't really play these, but I believe its what they play)
E's that begin a line:   all other E's:     D's:      A's:      A/A4:     B's:
---2---0---              ---0---         ---3---2--- ---0--- ---0---0--- ---2---
---0---0---              ---0---         ---3---3--- ---2--- ---2---3--- ---4---
---1---1---              ---1---         ---2---2--- ---2--- ---2---2--- ---4---
---2---2---              ---2---         ---0---0--- ---2--- ---2---2--- ---4---
---2---2---              ---2---         ---x---x--- ---0--- ---0---0--- ---2---
---0---0---              ---0---         ---x---x--- ---x--- ---x---x--- ---x---

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sacha Michel Mallais [email protected] http://www.global-village.net/sacha The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.