Not Necessary chords by The Tragically Hip

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

♫ Intro:
A  B   A  B
A  B   A  B


♫ Verse 1:
A  B
     Oh you're so calico
A  B
     You're all the colours in the world
E
  You're not a curious young girl

A  B
Oh oh, I always beg of you
A  B
     Do I know as much as I'm going to
E                             A  B   A  B
  You're so rebelled up in curls

♫ Verse 2:
A  B                             A
     Now when there's nothin' sacred
B
  Everyone's tellin' everyone everything
E
  She just watches from a hill

A  B
Oh oh, on the periphery
A  B
     This tempts a certain part of me
E                B
  To wander unfulfilled


♫ Chorus 1:
A                 E
  Well all these things I carry
B
  They're not so necessary
A            E
  And all is solitary
B                         A  B   A  B
  Well it's just not necessary


♫ Verse 3:
A  B
     In a purple minded dream
A  B                                     A
     You keeping peeling back at what it really means
E
  This beauty's too small to be true

A  B
Oh oh, it's all so calico
A  B
     And it's all the colours in the world
E               B
  Unraveling in you


♫ Chorus 2:
E                A
  And all these things I carry
B
  They're not so necessary
E            A
  And all is solitary
B
  Well it's quite necessary


♫ Outro:
A            E
  When I can get so weary
B
  Well it's just not necessary
A                E
  When all these things I carry
B                           A  E  B
  Well it's just not necessary

A                E
  Well all these things I carry
B
  Well it's just not necessary
A            E
  When I can get so weary
B                         A  B
  Well it's just not necessary
A  B
A  B
A  B