The Tragically Hip - Boots or Hearts

      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--------------------|
A|-------------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-------------------|
A|------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|---------------      e|---------------|
B|---------------      B|---------------|
G|---------0-----      G|---------------|
D|-0-3-2-0-------      D|-3\2-0-2p0-----|
A|---------------      A|-----------3p0-|
E|---------------      E|---------------|


[Fill C]               [Fill D]

e|----------------     e|----------------|
B|--6-5---6-5-3-0-     B|-6-5---6-5-6/8--|
G|--5-5-5-5-5-3-0-     G|-5-5---5-5-5/7--|
D|----------------     D|-----5-7-5-7/9--|
A|----------------     A|----------------|
E|----------------     E|----------------|


[Verse 1]

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


[Verse 2]

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]

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


[Solo]


[Verse 3]

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


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