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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 23:15:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Hops 
Subject: Boots or Hearts by The Tragically Hip


Boots or Hearts - The Tragically Hip
>From the LP Up to Here 

Original transcription by:

Duncan
sports2@genie.geis.com

Editing and changes:
Gord Murdoch
jm94bu@badger.ac.BrockU.CA

Tune A sting down to G
Note: Use an upstroke when striking the the open 3rd string (G)
Intro:

E-|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B-|--0---0------------------------------------------------------------------|
G-|--4\2-0--0-0---0--0---0-0--------0--0-0---0-----------0--------0---------|
D-|------0--0-0---0--0---0-0-----------0-0---0--0-/3-2-0--------------------|
G-|-------------0------0------0-3/4--------0----------------0-3/4-----------|
E-|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
                                                                               
                                                                               
E-|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B-|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G-|--0-0---0--0---0-0--------0--0-0---0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-------------------|
D-|--0-0---0--0---0-0-----------0-0---0--/5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-------------------|
G-|------0------0------0-3/4--------0---------------------------------------|
E-|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

 C and D chords alternate between these chords:

   C     -5-    -6-      D    -7-    -8-
 chord   -5- => -5-    chord  -7- => -7-
         -5-    -7-           -7-    -9-

Fill A                 Fill B
E---------------       ---------------
B---------------       ---------------
G---------0-----       ---------------
D-0-3-2-0-------       -3\2-0-2p0-----
G---------------       -----------3p0-
E---------------       ---------------
 
Fill C                Fill D
----------------      ----------------
--6-5---6-5-3-0-      -6-5---6-5-6/8--
--5-5-5-5-5-3-0-      -5-5---5-5-5/7--
----------------      -----5-7-5-7/9--
----------------      ----------------
----------------      ----------------
G
Well I think that there's a problem here
G                               Fill B
her voice just don't sound right
G
but I left myself on her answering machine
G                                Fill A
said "I'm back in town tonight."
C
I feel I've stepped out of the wilderness
C                           Fill D
all squint-eyed and confused
G
but even babies raised by wolves
G                                        Fill B
they know exactly when they've been used
 
CHORUS:
 
C                    D
See when it starts to fall apart,
  G                  Fill A
it really falls apart
     C                  D
like boots or hearts, oh when they start
     G                Fill A
they really fall apart
 
G
Fingers and toes, fingers and toes,
G                    Fill C
forty things we share
G
forty-one if you include,
G
the fact that we don't care
C
now you've blocked off most of main street
C                    Fill D
for your faith parade
G
everyone in town now, they probably all agree
G
I'm lying in the bed I made
 
CHORUS
 
SOLO
 
G
Now you won't even let me talk to you
G
we got some air to clear
G
we'd probably only agree on one thing anyway
G                                      Fill C
that's what the hell is happening here?
C
fingers and toes, fingers and toes
C                    Fill D
forty things we share
G
forty-one if you include
G
the fact that we don't care

Thanks to Duncan for doing most of the work here. I just made a few changes,
for the better I hope!

Cheers,
Gord
jm94bu@badger.ac.BrockU.ca


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Gord Murdoch			     "You see...I don't know Neil, I don't   
jm94bu@badger.ac.BrockU.CA	      know Neil."
Brock University		      		
St. Catharines, Ontario		      The Tragically Hip
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