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Johnson jack - Poor Taylor guitar tab

Poor Taylor (also known as Bad News)

Jack Johnson

Tabbed by Brian Noy

This song can be played with just C and Amin and it sounds

okay but Jack plays it C, C\B, Amin, F to the best of my

knowledge.

   C   C\B  Aminor F           C  C\B  Amin F

e--0----0----0-----1-- or     -8---8----5---1--

B--1----1----1-----1-- as     -8---8----5---1--

G--0----0----2-----2-- barre  -9---9----5---2--

D--2----2----2-----3-- chords -10--10---7---3--

A--3----2----0-----3--        -10--10---7---3--

E---------------------        -8---7----5---1--

I play it with the regular chords otherwise there's too

much moving around. Those chords continue through the whole

song pretty much. That awesome lick that he plays between

verses goes something like what I tabbed below

b=bend  /=slide  h=hammer  p=pull off

e-------------------------------------------------------

B-------------------------------------------------------

G-------------------------------------------------------

D------------------------------------------1p0-0--------

A--3-3--1h3-1h3-1h3-----------1-1-1-1/3-3-----3-3-------

E-------------------3-1-1--1/3-------------------3-1-1--

e----------------------------------------1--

B----------------------------------------1--

G----------------------------------------2--

D---------------------3-3/5-5-5\3-2-0----3--

A-----1---1---1-1/3-3----------------3-3----

E--1h3-1h3-1h3------------------------------

After that it's real hard to figure out so instead I play

a C and slide it up to D, F, and G like it does near the

of the song

   C   D   F   G

e--0---0-------0---

B--1---3---6---8---

G--0---0-------0---

D--2---4---7---9---

A--3---5---8---10--

E------------------

Lyrics:

She just wanders around

Unaffected by the winter winds air

She pretends that she's somewhere else

So far and clear

2000 miles from here

Taylor was a good girl

Never one to be late

Complain express ideas in her brain

Working on the night shift

Passing out the tickets

You're going to have to pay her

If you want to park here

Well Mommy's little dancer's

Quite a little secret

She's working on the streets now

Never going to keep it

It's quite an imposition

And now she's only wishin'

That she would have listened

To the words they said

Poor Taylor

Peter Patrick pitter patters on the window

And Sunny's silhouette won't let him in

And poor old Peter's got a nothin

Cuz he's been fallin

But somehow Taylor knows

Just where he's been

He thinks that singing on Sunday's gonna save his soul

Now that Saturday's gone

And sometimes he thinks that he's on his way

but I can see that his brakelights are on

When Taylor finds a better world

Taylor's gonna run the world

There's another version on the same demo CD that doesn't

sound like much anything else on the CD. He plays the

chords fairly muted throughout the song and sings the

first verse ("She just wanders around...2000 miles from

here") instead of playing that fancy little diddy. After

"his brakelights are on" he raps out a whole other verse.

Try to get this version, I noticed a lot of people on

Napster had this version but they all cut off before the

new verse. It goes something like this

She's such a tough enchalada

Filled up with nada(?)

Given what she gotta give to get a dollar bill

She used to be limber chicken

Time has been a ticken

Now she's finger licken to the man

with the money in his pocket

Flying in his rocket

Only stopping by on his way to a better world

When Taylor finds a better world

Taylor's going to run away

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