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                             If New Orleans Is Beat – The Tragically Hip
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Tabbed by: Aloha Jo
Email:jojomo@sympatico.ca

Tuning: Regular tuning

Verse
E|--------------0------------0-----------3--2---0----------------------------|
B|------3-----------3-----------3--------------------3-----------------------|
G|--------2------------2-----------2---------------------2-------------------|
D|--0------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
    Repeat per verse

    For the chorus I use chords

   Bm       G         D        Em     Asus
e|-2-|   |-3-|   |-2-|   |-0-|   |-0-|
B|-3-|   |-3-|   |-3-|   |-0-|   |-3-| 
G|-4-|   |-0-|   |-2-|   |-0-|   |-2-|
D|-4-|   |-0-|   |-0-|   |-2-|   |-2-|
A|-0-|   |-2-|   |-0-|   |-2-|   |-0-|
E|---| |-3-|   |---|   |-0-|   |---|

The solo part I haven’t really figured out yet. However I use this scale and play around with it.

E|----0--2--3--5--7--9--10--------------------------------------------------|
B|--3------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Lyrics:
(verse part)
Your smile is fading a bit so I ration it
Don’t think about it
Here where the Mississippi quits
Where its still got a bit of Minnesota in it

No one will give you a thing these days
They’d rather kill it or throw it away
You don’t “do” dark American streets so 
If New Orleans is beat 
(Bm)
If New Orleans is beat
(G)
If New Orleans is beat
(D)
If New Orleans is beat
(Em)
If New Orleans is beat
(Asus)
Where’s that leave you and me?
(solo part)