Remove AdsMIDDLE MAN
All music and lyrics written by and property of Jack Johnson
Transcribed by Jai Mitchell
After 5 shows of Jack in 7 days I manged to see a few errors in my tabs, one of them was in
one of the main chords for this song.. look at the chords in the intro and verse for the
difference... the Em, is not and Em until the chorus kind of bit, it is actually an Em9th or
Em7th or something.. as shown in the chord chart below... enjoy..
BASS INTRO
|--------------------------|
|.---------9---7~-7-7-----.|
|.-7~-7-7----7--------5-6-.|repeat until chorus
|--------------------------|
GUITAR CHORDS
Em* X 7 5 7 X X
Em X 7 9 9 8 7
A 5 7 7 6 5 5
C 8 10 10 9 8 8
D X 5 7 7 7 5
G 3 5 5 4 3 3
F# 2 4 4 3 2 2
F 1 3 3 2 1 1
em(1) 0 2 2 0 0 0
Guitar Intro
Em* A repeat
Em*Well he's not necessarily trying to say that he minds it
ABut someone plays evil tricks on that kid
Em*Well he's not necessarily trying to say god can't be trusted
ABut someone plays evil tricks on that kid
Em*As certain situations scream for deviations
ABut somehow we always get stuck in the middle
Em*Of this and that and then he should try less
AEvery time he's rejected then he loses affection
CBut don't we all, don't we just got to give a little time
A D Em DMaybe give a friend a call instead of making him confused
A D Em DWhat a terrible thing for you to do-ooo
A D Em DWhat an awful thing for you to say-eee
A D A G F# F em(1)What a terrible thing for you to relay
(bass intro and drums)
Em*Well I know some people's they got a little less than nothing
ANever still find some to spare
Em*And other people got more than they could use
ABut they don't share
Em*And some people got problems man
AThey got awful complications
Em*Other people got perfect situations
AWith no provocation
CBut don't we all, don't we just got to give a little time
A D Em DMaybe give a friend a call instead of making him confused
A D Em DWhat a terrible thing for you to do-ooo
A D Em DWhat an awful thing for you to say-eee
A DWhat a terrible thing for you
Em DConfused
A D Em DWhat a terrible thing for you to do-ooo
A D Em DWhat an awful thing for you to say-eee
A D A G F# F em(1)What a terrible thing for you to relay
(bass intro and drums)
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|.-----------------------------------------------------
|.---------------------------7-7p5-7p5---5-7-7p5-7p5---
|--7-7p5-7p5---5-7-7p5-7p5-------------7-------------7-
|------------7-------------7---------------------------
--------------------------------|
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-------------------------------.|repeat x 4
---------------------------7-7-.|then
-7-7p5-7p5---5-7-7p5-7p5--------|
-----------7-------------7------|
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-5----------------------
---7-7--7-5-6-7/slide
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