This is just the best song ever, and I'm lucky enough to have seen a copy from Tom
himself (aaah!!) so these should be very accurate! This is the video i sorta learnt it
off http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8QnGZEbdjo
Tabbed by TheRustyBlues / TheRainmaker
Capo on 2nd fret
C Am
Out of the rain I burst in through the front door,
C Am
Soaking and bleeding again I hit the floor spinning
G
Backpack on my back, it's weighing me down
G
Weighing me down, weighing me down.
C Am
C Am
C Am
I think it's that I don't know kids and they don't know me
C Am
But I know one thing, that I'm safer in my room
G
I've got the internet, I meet friends on msn,
G
Friends' friends, friends' friends, they tell me
C Am
I can put stuff in your backpack that'll scare the
C Am
Shit out of kids, that chase you in the street
G F
That'd help me out... That'd help me out
Am F
That'd help me out... That'd help me out
C
But after a while I get tired,
G C
They try to get me to study but I've got
Am G
Things to do... I've got homework too
Em
'Cause they don't know my dad
F C
He's this town through and through
Em
Old school fifty-something balding racist
F C
And so his mates are too
G Am Em
But me I'm a modern man!
G Am Em
Me I'm a modern man!
F Am
I'm a modern man a wo-ooah
F Am
I'm a modern man a wo-ooah
G
And I think I'm intelligent
Am
I think I'm open minded
G
And I think I've got a world view
Am
And there's not many people like me round here I can tell you
G Am
And I think I'm the future
G
And I think I'm dead
Am
if I lose track
Em
'Cause they don't know my dad
F C
He's this town through and through
Em
Old school fifty-something balding racist
F C
And so his mates are too
G Am Em
But me I'm a modern man!
G Am Em
Me I'm a modern man!
F Am
I'm a modern man a wo-ooah
F Am
I'm a modern man a wo-ooah
G
Yeah me I'm a modern man
G
Me I'm a modern man
F Am
I'm a modern man a wo-ooah
F Am G
I'm a modern man a wo-oo-oo-aaahhh yeah yeah yeah yeah oh
G.... Am
