Trickle Down Chords & Tabs
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:49:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sacha Mallais
Subject: CRD: "Trickle Down" by The Tragically Hip
Beautifully written Hip song about trickle down economics (my
interpretation, of course).
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Trickle Down - The Tragically Hip
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
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/tragically_hip/trickle_down_crd_ver_2.html ]
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---
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Sacha Michel Mallais sacha@global-village.net
http://www.global-village.net/sacha
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.