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Josh Pyke - Middle Of The Hill Chords

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Middle Of The Hill Chords

(ver. 2)
Josh Pyke
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 sh*t

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
            
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