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Middle Of The Hill

Biography:

Josh Pyke (born 18 December 1977 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian singer-songwriting musician. His albums include Memories & Dust (2007), Chimney's Afire (2008), Only Sparrows (2011).

It didn't take long before Josh's unique voice and song writing style, influenced by the likes of Elliott Smith, Evan Dando, and Sparklehorse, began to find favour amongst music tastemakers, critics and Triple J listeners. The first taste, the assured 'Kids Don't Sell Their Hopes So Fast'

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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