Middle Of The Hill


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