Middle of the Hill by Josh Pyke
Drop-
CHORDS USED:
/ Am4 F#o /
E|------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------0--|
G|---0----0-----7----0-------------------------------------0--|
D|---7----7-----10---9-----7----7---7----12----12-----12---0--|
A|---10---9-----0----7-----10---9---9----10----10-----10------|
D|-------------------------0----0---10---9-----10-----8----5--|
G2 is a dyad (G-A)
Am4 has no 5th (A-C-D)
F#o is a substitute for D7
Csus2 is an inversion of Gsus4
Open 2nd and 3rd-strings occassionally ring in error
INTRO: (two times)
/ Am4
VERSE-LONG:
/
When I was a kid I grew up in a house on a
Am4
Hill not the top not the bottom but the middle and I
/
Still remember where I cracked my head in the
Vacant lot there's a row of tiny houses there
/
Now and we used to light fires in the gutters and
Am4
I could cool my head on the concrete steps but the
VERSE-:
Girl down the street hit my sister on the head with a
F#o
Stick and we hid behind my father as he knocked on her
Parents' door to tell them what she did but the
F#o
Parents were drunk so they really didn't give a shit
LINK-1:
And the
VERSE:
/
Girl down the street said her dog couldn't bark 'cos a
Am4
Man with an axe cut its voice box out but my
/
Older sister told me that it prob'ly wasn't true and I
Am4
Believed what she said 'cos she took me by the hand one
VERSE-:
Time when a coupla men drove down the hill in a
F#o
White van said there was a phone box filled with
Money 'round the corner and I would've gone along but she
F#o
Took me by the hand to the house in the middle of the
LINK-2:
Hill the middle of the hill the middle of the
/ /
Hill and our
VERSE:
/
Mother knew the words to a lot of different songs and we
Am4
Always sing the harmonies when we'd sing along she had
/
Cool cool hands when the fever hit then the
Am4
Noises that the trains made sounded like people in my
VERSE-:
Head and the stories that the ceiling told through the
F#o
Pictures in the grains in the pinewood boards and I could
Stay outside till the sky went red and I could
F#o
Cool my head on the concrete steps and you
CODA:
Never really see the top from the bottom I don't
F#o
Pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em you can
Never really see the top from the bottom I don't
F#o
Pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em I don't
TAG:
Pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em I don't
/
Pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em (I) don't
Pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em I don't
/
Pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em no
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