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Middle Of The Hill Tab

by Josh Pyke


in standard tuning.

CHORDS USED:
      /  Am4         
     /  
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
     /
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
   u    u


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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