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Send "At The Hundredth Meridian" Ringtone to your Cell Phone

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

-|-----------------------------|----------------|-----------------------------|
-|-----------------------------|----------------|-----------------------------|
-|-7--5----7--5----7-5---7-5---|----------------|-----------------------------|
-|-7--5----7--5----7-5---7-5---|----------------|-----------------------------|
-|-5--3----5--3----5-3---5-3---|----------------|-----------------------------|
-|-----------------------------|----------------|-----------------------------|
  G1
(Intro)

--|----------------------------|----------------|---|-------------------------|
--|----------------------------|----------------|---|-------------------------|
--|----------------------------|----------------|---|-------------------------|
--|----------------------------|--3p2-----------|---|-------------------------|
--|----------------------------|------3p2-------|---|-------------------------|
--|----------------------------|----------2---0-|---|-------------------------|

G2

--|--------------------------|----------|-------------------------------------|
--|--------------------------|----------|-------------------------------------|
--|-------5--7---------------|--x3------|------5--7---------------------------|
--|-------5--7---3p2---------|----------|------5--7--3------------------------|
--|-------3--5-------3p2-----|----------|------3--5----2h3p2------------------|
--|---0-0----------------3---|----------|--0-0---------------3p0--------------|

G1

--|--------------------------|----------|-------------------------------------|
--|--------------------------|----------|-------------------------------------|
--|--7-----------5-/-7-------|----------|-7----5------------------------------|
--|--7-----------5-/-7-------|-x3-------|-7----5-----3-p-0--------------------|
--|--5---------------5-------|----------|------------3-p-0--------------------|
--|--------------------------|----------|-------------------------------------|
 G2
w/wah

--|--------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
--|--------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
--|------7-5-----------------|-x4---------------------------------------------|
--|------7-5---3p2-----------|------------------------------------------------|
--|------5-3-------3p2-------|------------------------------------------------|
--|--0-0---------------2--0--|------------------------------------------------|
  G1    Rythym 1
(Verse)

--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
  G2 Me debunk an american
myth..

--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|------7--5-----------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|------7--5---3p2-----------|-x4--------------------------------------------|
--|------5--3-------3p2-------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|--0-0----------------2--0--|-----------------------------------------------|
  G1  Where the Great Plains
begin.....

--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|-------------5-h--7--------|--x4-------------------------------------------|
--|-------------5-h--7--------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
  G2     v.quiet
w/wah

--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|-------7--5----------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|-------7--5--3p2-----------|-x3--------------------------------------------|
--|-------5--3------3p2-------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---0-0---------------2--0--|-----------------------------------------------|
 G1        Driving Down the corodoroy
road

--|---------------------x-x--x-x-|--------------------------------------------|
--|-------------x-------x-x--x-x-|--------------------------------------------|
--|---7--------x-x--------------|--------------------------------------------|
--|---7--------x-x--------------|-x3-----------------------------------------|
--|---5-----x-x----x-x----xx----|--------------------------------------------|
--|----------x-x----x-x----xx----|--------------------------------------------|
 G2
w/wah

---|----------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
---|----------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
---|-------7---5----------------|-x4------------------------------------------|
---|-------7---5--3p2-----------|---------------------------------------------|
---|-------5---3------3p2-------|---------------------------------------------|
---|--0-0-----------------2--0--|---------------------------------------------|
  G1   Ferris Wheel is
rusted

---|------------------------------------------|-------------------------------|
---|----------------------------------7-7-----|-------------------------------|
---|--7-/-9---5-/--7-/-9--5-/7------7-7-----|-------------------------------|
---|--7-/-9---5-/--7-/-9--5-/7--------------|-x1----------------------------|
---|------------------------------55----------|-------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------00--|-------------------------------|
 G2       This section stretches out of the 4 bars for
g1.

---|-------------------------------------------------|------------------------|
---|-------------------------------------------------|------------------------|
---|-------------------------------------------------|------------------------|
---|-------------------------------------------------|------------------------|
---|-0---0--0-00-00-3--3--3-33-5-5-5-55-55-3-3--3-33-|------------------------|
---|-0---0--0-00-00-3--3--3-33-5-5-5-55-55-3-3--3-33-|------------------------|
  G1 At the hundreth
Meridian.....

---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|-7---7--7-77-77-10-10-10101010-10-10-1212-1212-101010101010---------------|
---|-5---5--5-55-55-8--8--8-88--10-10-10-1010-1010-8-8-888-88-----------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 G2 Chorus             (Just bar chords... G2 is 1 octave higher than
g1)

---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|---5--5-505-0-8-8-88-8-8-0-3-3-3-3--0-0-0-0-0-3-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-----------|
---|---5--5-505-0-8-8-88-8-8-0-3-3-3-3--0-0-0-0-0-3-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-----------|
 G1  And I
remember,

---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 G2   Same as
G1

---|-------------------------|--------------------------|---------------------|
---|-------------------------|--------------------------|---------------------|
---|------7---5--------------|-------7--5---------------|---------------------|
---|------7---5--3p2---------|-------7--5--3p2----------|---------------------|
---|------5---3------3p2-----|-------5--3------3p2------|---------------------|
---|-0-0-----------------2---|---0-0---------------2----|---------------------|

G1

---|-10----------------------|--------------------------|---------------------|
---|-10----------8h10-p8-7h-|8^^^^^^---7^^^^^----------|---------------------|
---|-7-----------------------|---------------------5-h--|---------------------|
---|-7-----------------------|--------------------------|---------------------|
---|-------------------------|--------------------------|---------------------|
---|-------------------------|--------------------------|---------------------|

G2

---|-------------------------|---------------------------|--------------------|
---|-------------------------|---------------------------|--------------------|
---|------7---5--------------|--------7---5--------------|--------------------|
---|------7---5---3p2--------|--------7---5---3p2--------|--------------------|
---|------5---3-------3p2----|--------5---3-------3p2----|--------------------|
---|--0-0-----------------2--|--0--0------------------2--|--------------------|

G1

---|--------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
---|--7-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^|^^^^^^^^^^^------------------------------------|
---|--7-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^|^^^^^^^^^^^------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|

G2

---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|------7--5--------------|-----7--5-------------|------7--5----------------|
---|------7--5--3p2---------|-----7--5-3p2---------|------7--5-3p2------------|
---|------5--3------3p2-----|-----5--3-----3p2-----|------5--3-----3p2--------|
---|--0-0---------------2---|-0-0--------------2---|--0-0--------------2------|
 G1  aiiiiiiiiiinssssssssss
beginnnnnnnnnnnnnn

---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|------7--5--------------|------7--10-9---------|--------7--5--------------|
---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|------5--3--------------|------5--8--7---------|--------5--3--------------|
---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
 G2   Ending
(w/wah)

---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|-----7--5---------------|-----7--5-------------|-----7--5-----------------|
---|-----7--5-3p2-----------|-----7--5-3p2---------|-----7--5-3p2-------------|
---|-----5--3-----3p2-------|-----5--3-----3p2-----|-----5--3-----3p2---------|
---|-0-0--------------2-----|-0-0--------------2---|-0-0--------------2-------|

G1

---|------------------------|----------------------|-10-10p8h10p87h8p7-------|
---|------------------------|10-10p8h10p87h8p7-10-|--------------------10----|
---|------------------------|----------------------|x-------------------------|
---|7-5h6p5-3/5-3p2-3p2-----|----------------------|x-------------------------|
---|--------------------3---|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|

G2

---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|-----7--5---------------|------7-5--7----------|--------------------------|
---|-----7--5-3p2-----------|------7-5--7----------|--------------------------|
---|-----5--3-----3p2-------|------5/3--5----------|--------------------------|
---|-0-0--------------2-----|-0-0------------------|--------------------------|

G1

---|-----10p8--8p7----------|----8--8p7------------|--------------------------|
---|----------------8-------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|------------------------|------------7---------|--------------------------|
---|------------------------|------------7---------|--------------------------|
---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|

G2

        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

Chorus:
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

Chorus

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

Chorus


--
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			       
From tthorne@nf.sympatico.ca Thu May  8 14:10:07 1997
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 18:12:43 -0230
From: "Terry "Bassman" Thorne" 
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: TAB: 'At The Hundreth Meridian' by 'The Tragically Hip'

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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

-|-----------------------------|----------------|-----------------------------|
-|-----------------------------|----------------|-----------------------------|
-|-7--5----7--5----7-5---7-5---|----------------|-----------------------------|
-|-7--5----7--5----7-5---7-5---|----------------|-----------------------------|
-|-5--3----5--3----5-3---5-3---|----------------|-----------------------------|
-|-----------------------------|----------------|-----------------------------|
  G1
(Intro)

--|----------------------------|----------------|---|-------------------------|
--|----------------------------|----------------|---|-------------------------|
--|----------------------------|----------------|---|-------------------------|
--|----------------------------|--3p2-----------|---|-------------------------|
--|----------------------------|------3p2-------|---|-------------------------|
--|----------------------------|----------2---0-|---|-------------------------|

G2

--|--------------------------|----------|-------------------------------------|
--|--------------------------|----------|-------------------------------------|
--|-------5--7---------------|--x3------|------5--7---------------------------|
--|-------5--7---3p2---------|----------|------5--7--3------------------------|
--|-------3--5-------3p2-----|----------|------3--5----2h3p2------------------|
--|---0-0----------------3---|----------|--0-0---------------3p0--------------|

G1

--|--------------------------|----------|-------------------------------------|
--|--------------------------|----------|-------------------------------------|
--|--7-----------5-/-7-------|----------|-7----5------------------------------|
--|--7-----------5-/-7-------|-x3-------|-7----5-----3-p-0--------------------|
--|--5---------------5-------|----------|------------3-p-0--------------------|
--|--------------------------|----------|-------------------------------------|
 G2
w/wah

--|--------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
--|--------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
--|------7-5-----------------|-x4---------------------------------------------|
--|------7-5---3p2-----------|------------------------------------------------|
--|------5-3-------3p2-------|------------------------------------------------|
--|--0-0---------------2--0--|------------------------------------------------|
  G1    Rythym 1
(Verse)

--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
  G2 Me debunk an american
myth..

--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|------7--5-----------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|------7--5---3p2-----------|-x4--------------------------------------------|
--|------5--3-------3p2-------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|--0-0----------------2--0--|-----------------------------------------------|
  G1  Where the Great Plains
begin.....

--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|-------------5-h--7--------|--x4-------------------------------------------|
--|-------------5-h--7--------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
  G2     v.quiet
w/wah

--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|-------7--5----------------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|-------7--5--3p2-----------|-x3--------------------------------------------|
--|-------5--3------3p2-------|-----------------------------------------------|
--|---0-0---------------2--0--|-----------------------------------------------|
 G1        Driving Down the corodoroy
road

--|---------------------x-x--x-x-|--------------------------------------------|
--|-------------x-------x-x--x-x-|--------------------------------------------|
--|---7--------x-x--------------|--------------------------------------------|
--|---7--------x-x--------------|-x3-----------------------------------------|
--|---5-----x-x----x-x----xx----|--------------------------------------------|
--|----------x-x----x-x----xx----|--------------------------------------------|
 G2
w/wah

---|----------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
---|----------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
---|-------7---5----------------|-x4------------------------------------------|
---|-------7---5--3p2-----------|---------------------------------------------|
---|-------5---3------3p2-------|---------------------------------------------|
---|--0-0-----------------2--0--|---------------------------------------------|
  G1   Ferris Wheel is
rusted

---|------------------------------------------|-------------------------------|
---|----------------------------------7-7-----|-------------------------------|
---|--7-/-9---5-/--7-/-9--5-/7------7-7-----|-------------------------------|
---|--7-/-9---5-/--7-/-9--5-/7--------------|-x1----------------------------|
---|------------------------------55----------|-------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------00--|-------------------------------|
 G2       This section stretches out of the 4 bars for
g1.

---|-------------------------------------------------|------------------------|
---|-------------------------------------------------|------------------------|
---|-------------------------------------------------|------------------------|
---|-------------------------------------------------|------------------------|
---|-0---0--0-00-00-3--3--3-33-5-5-5-55-55-3-3--3-33-|------------------------|
---|-0---0--0-00-00-3--3--3-33-5-5-5-55-55-3-3--3-33-|------------------------|
  G1 At the hundreth
Meridian.....

---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|-7---7--7-77-77-10-10-10101010-10-10-1212-1212-101010101010---------------|
---|-5---5--5-55-55-8--8--8-88--10-10-10-1010-1010-8-8-888-88-----------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 G2 Chorus             (Just bar chords... G2 is 1 octave higher than
g1)

---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|---5--5-505-0-8-8-88-8-8-0-3-3-3-3--0-0-0-0-0-3-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-----------|
---|---5--5-505-0-8-8-88-8-8-0-3-3-3-3--0-0-0-0-0-3-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-----------|
 G1  And I
remember,

---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 G2   Same as
G1

---|-------------------------|--------------------------|---------------------|
---|-------------------------|--------------------------|---------------------|
---|------7---5--------------|-------7--5---------------|---------------------|
---|------7---5--3p2---------|-------7--5--3p2----------|---------------------|
---|------5---3------3p2-----|-------5--3------3p2------|---------------------|
---|-0-0-----------------2---|---0-0---------------2----|---------------------|

G1

---|-10----------------------|--------------------------|---------------------|
---|-10----------8h10-p8-7h-|8^^^^^^---7^^^^^----------|---------------------|
---|-7-----------------------|---------------------5-h--|---------------------|
---|-7-----------------------|--------------------------|---------------------|
---|-------------------------|--------------------------|---------------------|
---|-------------------------|--------------------------|---------------------|

G2

---|-------------------------|---------------------------|--------------------|
---|-------------------------|---------------------------|--------------------|
---|------7---5--------------|--------7---5--------------|--------------------|
---|------7---5---3p2--------|--------7---5---3p2--------|--------------------|
---|------5---3-------3p2----|--------5---3-------3p2----|--------------------|
---|--0-0-----------------2--|--0--0------------------2--|--------------------|

G1

---|--------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
---|--7-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^|^^^^^^^^^^^------------------------------------|
---|--7-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^|^^^^^^^^^^^------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
---|--------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|

G2

---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|------7--5--------------|-----7--5-------------|------7--5----------------|
---|------7--5--3p2---------|-----7--5-3p2---------|------7--5-3p2------------|
---|------5--3------3p2-----|-----5--3-----3p2-----|------5--3-----3p2--------|
---|--0-0---------------2---|-0-0--------------2---|--0-0--------------2------|
 G1  aiiiiiiiiiinssssssssss
beginnnnnnnnnnnnnn

---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|------7--5--------------|------7--10-9---------|--------7--5--------------|
---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|------5--3--------------|------5--8--7---------|--------5--3--------------|
---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
 G2   Ending
(w/wah)

---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|-----7--5---------------|-----7--5-------------|-----7--5-----------------|
---|-----7--5-3p2-----------|-----7--5-3p2---------|-----7--5-3p2-------------|
---|-----5--3-----3p2-------|-----5--3-----3p2-----|-----5--3-----3p2---------|
---|-0-0--------------2-----|-0-0--------------2---|-0-0--------------2-------|

G1

---|------------------------|----------------------|-10-10p8h10p87h8p7-------|
---|------------------------|10-10p8h10p87h8p7-10-|--------------------10----|
---|------------------------|----------------------|x-------------------------|
---|7-5h6p5-3/5-3p2-3p2-----|----------------------|x-------------------------|
---|--------------------3---|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|

G2

---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|-----7--5---------------|------7-5--7----------|--------------------------|
---|-----7--5-3p2-----------|------7-5--7----------|--------------------------|
---|-----5--3-----3p2-------|------5/3--5----------|--------------------------|
---|-0-0--------------2-----|-0-0------------------|--------------------------|

G1

---|-----10p8--8p7----------|----8--8p7------------|--------------------------|
---|----------------8-------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|------------------------|------------7---------|--------------------------|
---|------------------------|------------7---------|--------------------------|
---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
---|------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|

G2

        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

Chorus:
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

Chorus

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

Chorus


--
Terry Thorne		   
tthorne@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			       

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Tyler Wanna Be	#1 by Tyler Swagar at Jan 7, 1973 at 11:43 AM EST
	I've always thought "the Hundredth Meridian" was a metaphor for the 49th parallel, and all it means to Canadian Artists. They have to go there, they must be carried there to be considered successful, but they lose themselves there. If you change "The Great Plains" could be the flat countryside of central North America, or it could be plain as in ordinary, nondistinct, homoginized, as American Music tends to become. Much of what he cries to be carried away from (swollen city-breeze, acts of enormity) seem very american. The song is an acknowledgement that they may have to travel south of 49 (across the 100th), but they will not allow it to change them.

No Picture ¿Josh Rhythm Player	#2 by ¿Josh Kirkpatrick? at Jan 17, 1974 at 10:11 PM EST
	That a bi Kenny. HAHA! Couldn't tell you what Gord S. is saying but it sounds good. Let's jam this song soon.

No Picture danielle Lead Player	#3 by danielle woodley at Jan 30, 1982 at 2:12 PM EST
	Ry Cooder is a blues artist That Gord Downie looks up to

No Picture Jon Badass	#4 by Jon Coath at Apr 29, 1984 at 8:51 PM EST
	Can someone tell me what the hell Gord Sinclair is saying in the backgroung during the chorus?????

No Picture ryan Lead Player	#5 by ryan harney at Mar 3, 1985 at 10:00 PM EST
	Yep, the meridian of 100 degrees west runs pretty much smack through the middle (north-south) iof the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Kansas, nips off the corner of Oklahoma then runs on down through Texas just west of San Antonio and is quite literally "where the Great Plains begin". On the surface, this song looks like an evocative indictment of the rural American midwest. I can see how you'd go from that to drawing a parallel between the desolate nature of the landscape and the desolate nature of the culture, but I'm not totally convinced that's the intent.

No Picture Snap! Crackle! Average	#6 by Snap! Crackle! Josh!! waldenmaier at Sep 22, 1990 at 10:39 PM EST
	IvoKent - if you still care - I think the final chorus goes like this: GD: at the hundredth meridian GS: hundredth meridian GD: at the hundredth meridian GS: you're gonna miss me GD: at the hundredth meridian, where the great plains begin GS: at the hundredth meridian GD: at the hundredth meridian GS: at the hundredth meridian GD: at the hundredth meridian GS: you're gonna miss me GD: at the hundredth meridian, where the great plaiiiinnnnnnnnnnnsssssss....

No Picture Kenny Lead Player	#7 by Kenny Berg at Jun 7, 1995 at 11:22 PM EST
	The hundredth meridian (longitude) is where the plains begin.

No Picture devon Average	#8 by devon patterson at May 25, 1997 at 11:30 AM EST
	I think that this song has absolutely nothing to do with the American musical landscape. If he was talking about that he would have referred to a parallel (e.g. 49th parallel). 100 degrees longitude runs through Canada and the U.S., and is an east-west divider, not a north-south. I think he is talking about the purest part of Canada, the "great plains" that are, for the most part, untouched by urban plight. He says that if he "dies of vanity" he should buried at the hundredth meridian, away from the overcrowed, overconsuming city. If he "dies of vanity", he will at least be buried where life is simple, and without the big city attitude.

No Picture Gabba Gabba Hey Average	#9 by Gabba Gabba Hey at Dec 26, 1998 at 9:14 AM EST
	The Hundredth Meridian is the border between Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

No Picture Jimmy Average	#10 by Jimmy Dresbach at Nov 27, 1999 at 1:13 PM EST
	Awesome song...."It would seem to me I remember every single fucking thing I know!"

No Picture Doolittle Lead Player	#11 by Doolittle at Jul 25, 2002 at 7:22 PM EST
	Yeah, I lived behind that line for a small bit of time in my life. It seems to be a weird indictment if you bringing up a Dutch City and an American guitar god in the same song. The culture is desolate from the Red RIver of the North westward. According to an article I've read in USA Today, The northern Great Plains of the 1990's and 2000's is now what the Deep South was from the 1930's to say the 1980's was. Poor as poor can get...and I've seen it driving between Williston, North Dakota and Glasgow, Montana. I find the meaning to be about the American musical landscape. It's rare that anybody finds a great band and if they are found, they die off as quickly as they appear. The American landscape prefers music that's easily to listen to and therefore, it's easy to consume. Nirvana wasn't like that, Days of the New wasn't like that, Alice In Chains wasn't like that. Modest Mouse shouldn't be like that, I guess for the most part they aren't. Listen to their new album to see what I mean. Neither are The Hip, at least now. I started with Road Apples and Fully Completely, Road Apples was easily my favorite because it was easier to listen to. I love Up To Here as well. Those two albums are the easiest to consume by the band. They are great because they are easy to consume rock and roll. Fully Completely was tougher for me so I should give it another go. I love Day For Night though. I also have In Violet Light and In Between Evolution and they are the most complex albums by them. I started out of order but I will eventually get on the horse. This is the best band on Earth and I wish they would play in North Dakota. You wouldn't know how many Canadians we get from Winnipeg on a weekly basis. That would be awesome in my mind.