A Beautiful Thing chords by The Tragically Hip

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

♫ Intro:
F  Bb  x2

♫ Verse 1:
F                           Bb
In the ulcerating silence perspective comes
F                               Bb
The way it always does for it's ransom
F                Bb
So randomly somebody calls
 F                            Bb
The phone rings and it brings Niagara Falls

♫ Chorus:
      Dm
At three o'clock in the morning
     Dm
"You'd better be dying" and you were
     Dm
So we talked about time and where it went
     Dm
Unremarkable events
    Dm                                      Bb
And how one day took two days and they got spent
             F              C
How you'd continue, carefully, in degrees
     F           Bb              F
Trying to do one true beautiful thing
                    Bb
And your beautiful thing, It'd be
             Dm
A beautiful thing,   To see
               Bb
That beautiful thing
   C
Continuing

♫ Bridge:
F   Bb X2

♫ Verse 2:
F                    Bb
"I don't live there, I just commute"
  F                             Bb
Secretly cradling a joint and I might puke
  F                   Bb
A fumble with the keys under duress
 F                    Bb
The point is this is practise duress

♫ Chorus:
Dm
At three o'clock in the morning
  Dm
"You'd better be dying" and you were
   Dm
So we talked about things and where they went
   Dm
Big remarkable events
     Dm                                     Bb
And how each day's a new day and they get spent
           F           C
How you'd continue, artfully, like the breeze
   F             Bb               F
Trying to do one true beautiful thing

F                   Bb
And your beautiful thing,  It'd be
Dm
A beautiful thing,   To see
                Bb
That beautiful thing
      C
Continuing
                  Bb
Your beautiful thing
    C
Continuing

♫ Solo:
C  Bb X3   C
F   Bb X4

♫ Outro:
                  Dm
And your beautiful thing, Will be
             Bb
A beautiful thing, To me
             Dm
A beautiful thing
     C
Continuing
    Dm
Your beautiful thing
      C
Continuing

F Bb  X3
 fade out

When playing Bb the high e string is barred with the forefinger first fret: to provide an F note