Poets chords by The Tragically Hip

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:
 C minorCm
Spring starts when a heartbeat's poundin'
 FF                        C minorCm               FF
When the birds can be heard above the reckonin' carts doin' some final accountin'
 C minorCm
Lava flowin' in Superfarmer's direction
 FF                        C minorCm          FF
He's been gettin' reprieve from the heat in the frozen food section, yeah


Chorus:
  C minorCm          Bb majorBb
Don't tell me what the poets are doin'
  C minorCm            Bb majorBb
Don't tell me that they're talking tough
  C minorCm            Bb majorBb
Don't tell me that they're anti-social
  C minorCm        Bb majorBb
Somehow not anti-social enough, all right

Verse 2:
  C minorCm
And porn speaks to its splintered legions
  FF                        C minorCm         FF
To the pink amid the withered cornstalks in them winter regions (Yeah)
  C minorCm
While aimin' at the archetypal father
  FF                          C minorCm          FF
He said with such broad and tentative swipes, "Why do you even bother?" (Yeah)


Chorus:
  C minorCm           Bb majorBb
Don't tell me what the poets are doin'
  C minorCm          Bb majorBb
Those Himalayas of the mind
  C minorCm          Bb majorBb
Don't tell me what the poets been doin'
  C minorCm         Bb majorBb
In the long grasses over time


Instrumental Break:
C minorCm Eb MajorEb FF Bb majorBb (x2)

Chorus:
  C minorCm           Bb majorBb
Don't tell me what the poets are doin'
  C minorCm          Bb majorBb
On the street and the epitome of vague
  C minorCm         Bb majorBb
Don't tell me how the universe is altered
  C minorCm         Bb majorBb
When you find out how he gets paid, all right


Verse 3:
 C minorCm           Eb MajorEb
If there's nothing more that ya need now
   FF         Bb majorBb
The lawn cut by bare-breasted women
 C minorCm          Eb MajorEb          FF
Beach bleached towels within reach for the women
     Bb majorBb                 C minorCm
Got to make it, that'll make it by swimmin

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