This is the same as the tab by cate brown but ive changed the chord shapes so it can be
in standard tuning.
CHORDS USED:
G2 G2/F# Am4 Em Dsus4 D
G/B Csus2 Gm/Bb G
e|---------------------------------------------------------x--|
B|---------------------------------------------------------3--|
G|---0----0-----7----0-------------------7-----7------7----0--|
D|---7----7-----10---9-----7----7---7----5-----5------5----0--|
A|---10---9-----0----7-----10---9---9----x-----x------x----2--|
E|-------------------0-----10--10---8----7-----8------6----3--|
strumming pattern: d = downstroke mainly on bass note D= donwstroke,
u = upstroke
this pattern is maintaind throughout most of the song.
eg
G2 G2/F#
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
D D D u D D D u
INTRO: (two times)
G2 G2/F# Am4 Em
VERSE-LONG:
G2 G2/F#
When I was a kid I grew up in a house on a
Am4 Em
Hill not the top not the bottom but the middle and I
G2 G2/F#
Still remember where I cracked my head in the
Am Em
Vacant lot there's a row of tiny houses there
G2 G2/F#
Now and we used to light fires in the gutters and
Am4 Em
I could cool my head on the concrete steps but the
VERSE-B:
Dsus4 D
Girl down the street hit my sister on the head with a
F#o G/B
Stick and we hid behind my father as he knocked on her
Dsus4 D
Parents' door to tell them what she did but the
F#o G/B
Parents were drunk so they really didn't give a shit
LINK-1:
Dsus4 D
And the
VERSE:
G2 G2/F#
Girl down the street said her dog couldn't bark 'cos a
Am4 Em
Man with an axe cut its voice box out but my
G2 G2/F#
Older sister told me that it prob'ly wasn't true and I
Am4 Em
Believed what she said 'cos she took me by the hand one
VERSE-B:
Dsus4 D
Time when a coupla men drove down the hill in a
F#o G/B
White van said there was a phone box filled with
Dsus4 D
Money 'round the corner and I would've gone along but she
F#o G/B
Took me by the hand to the house in the middle of the
LINK-2:
Csus2 G/B
Hill the middle of the hill the middle of the
Gm/Bb Gm/Bb
Hill and our
VERSE:
G2 G2/F#
Mother knew the words to a lot of different songs and we
Am4 Em
Always sing the harmonies when we'd sing along she had
G2 G2/F#
Cool cool hands when the fever hit then the
Am4 Em
Noises that the trains made sounded like people in my
VERSE-B:
Dsus4 D
Head and the stories that the ceiling told through the
F#o G/B
Pictures in the grains in the pinewood boards and I could
Dsus4 D
Stay outside till the sky went red and I could
F#o G/B
Cool my head on the concrete steps and you
CODA:
Dsus4 D
Never really see the top from the bottom I don't
F#o G/B
Pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em you can
Dsus4 D
Never really see the top from the bottom I don't
F#o G/B
Pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em I don't
TAG:
Csus2 G/B
Pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em I don't
Gm/Bb G/B
Pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em (I) don't
Csus2 G/B
Pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em I don't
Gm/Bb G/B
Pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em no
ENDING:
Dsus4 D G
