• Song:

    Drop Off

  • Artist:

    Tragically Hip

Tabbed By Geoff Lawson (geofflawson@hotmail.com)

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 (x02220@1)				                        Riff Be|-----------------------| (x2444x@1)		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 (xx023x@1)         A5 (x022xx@1)              F#5There's (244xxx@1)no swimming past the drop-off
D5 (xx023x@1)          A5 (x022xx@1)         F#5or (244xxx@1)feeling sorry for yourself
D5 (xx023x@1)            A5 (x022xx@1)              F#5Ya (244xxx@1)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 (xx023x@1)       A5 (x022xx@1)             F#5But (244xxx@1)there's no swimming past the drop-off
D5 (xx023x@1)    A5 (x022xx@1)                 F#5Yea (244xxx@1)we don't replace ourselves
D5 (xx023x@1)            A5 (x022xx@1)               F#5Ya (244xxx@1)don't go swimming past the drop-off
   D5 (xx023x@1) E5or (022xxx@1)else


Bridge 1
        E5 (022xxx@1) E5 (022xxx@1)    E5 (022xxx@1)                 E5 (022xxx@1)name="chord_xx023x@1">D5
The fates are amok and spun, measured and cut and the past is meant to please us
            E5 (022xxx@1)         E5 (022xxx@1)  E5 (022xxx@1)                 E5 (022xxx@1)     D5Yer (xx023x@1)a comet from earth in a Kiss Alive shirt saying, 'holy fuck, it's jesus!?'
            E5 (022xxx@1)       E5 (022xxx@1)              E5 (022xxx@1)    E5 (022xxx@1)           D5The (xx023x@1)surface is green and the dark interweaves in a lonely iridescence
     E5 (022xxx@1)    E5 (022xxx@1)      E5 (022xxx@1)   E5 (022xxx@1)        D5 (xx023x@1)    A5It's (x022xx@1)terribly deep and the cold is complete and it only lacks a presence
		 Riff Ax4 (x02220@1)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 (022xxx@1)   E5 (022xxx@1)      E5 (022xxx@1)   E5 (022xxx@1)      D5 (xx023x@1)    A5It's (x022xx@1)terribly deep and the cold is complete and it only lacks a presence
		 C5and (x355xx@1)nothing else.
	 D5nothing (xx023x@1)else
 E5nothing (022xxx@1)else
Riff A x4
and no one else.

Enjoy!

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