At The Hundredth Meridian

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Author/Artist: The Tragically Hip

Title: At The Hundreth Meridian

Album: Fully Completely

Transcribed by: Terry Thorne

Email: a1xuib56@nf.sympatico.ca

This piece is a great tune to jam to. Enjoy (Note: Both Guitars are in

Dropped D)

Guitar 1 is dirty, Guitar 2 is usually dirty but also has a wah over it

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(Intro)

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w/wah

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G1 Rythym 1

(Verse)

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G2 Me debunk an american

myth..

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G1 Where the Great Plains

begin.....

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G2 v.quiet

w/wah

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G1 Driving Down the corodoroy

road

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w/wah

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G1 Ferris Wheel is

rusted

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G2 This section stretches out of the 4 bars for

g1.

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G1 At the hundreth

Meridian.....

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G2 Chorus (Just bar chords... G2 is 1 octave higher than

g1)

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G1 And I

remember,

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G2 Same as

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G1 aiiiiiiiiiinssssssssss

beginnnnnnnnnnnnnn

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G2 Ending

(w/wah)

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That's all the guitar, now YOU just got to go and listen to the

tune

to see what goes where (hehe I'm too lazy :) ) But here's the

lyrics

Me debunk an american myth?

And take my life in my hands?

Where the great plains begin

at the hundreth meridian

at the hundreth meridian

where the great plains begin

Driving down a corduroy road

weeds standing shoulder high

ferris wheel is ruting

off in the distance

At the hundreth meridian

at the hundreth meridian

at the hundreth meridian

where the great plains begin

Left alone to get gigantic

Hard, huge, and haunted

A generation so much dumber than it's parents

came crashing through the window

A raven strains along the line of the road

carrying a muddy, old skull

the wires show their approval

Off down the distance

I remember, I remember buffalo

And I remember Hengelo

It would seem to me

I remember every single fucking thing I know

If I die of Vanity, promise me, promise me

that if they bury me some place I don't want to be

That you'll dig me up and transport me

uncerimoniously

away from the swollen city breeze, garbage bag trees

whispers of disease, and acts of enormity

and lower me slowly, sadly, and properly

Get Ry Cooder to sing my eulogy

--

Terry Thorne \

a1xuib56@nf.sympatico.ca \ "If There's glory in

9 Lingard Place \ miracles, it's that they're

Bishop's Falls, NF, CA \ reversible" Gord Downie

A0H-1C0 \