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MIDDLE MAN
All music and lyrics written by and property of Jack Johnson
Transcribed by Jai Mitchell
jai_mitchell@yahoo.com
http://members.optushome.com.au/jaimitchell
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
But Asomeone plays evil tricks on that kid
Em*Well he's not necessarily trying to say god can't be trusted
But Asomeone plays evil tricks on that kid
Em*As certain situations scream for deviations
But Asomehow we always get stuck in the middle
Of Em*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
AMaybe give a friend a call Dinstead of making him EmconfuseDd
AWhat a terrible Dthing for you to Emdo-oDoo
AWhat an awful Dthing for you to Emsay-eeDe
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
Never Astill 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
They got Aawful 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
AMaybe give a friend a call Dinstead of making him EmconfuseDd
AWhat a terrible Dthing for you to Emdo-oDoo
AWhat an awful Dthing for you to Emsay-eeDe
AWhat a terrible Dthing for you
EmConfuseDd
AWhat a terrible Dthing for you to Emdo-oDoo
AWhat an awful Dthing for you to Emsay-eeDe
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<0-
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Somehow we always get stuck in the middle (repeated)
(overdubbed with)
Confused, what an awful thing for you to do
Confused, what an awful thing for you to say-ee