Biography:
The Middle East were a musical collective from Townsville, Australia, which formed in 2005. Fusing various influences from post-rock to folk to ambient, various members have at different times played in other North Queensland based groups such as Joseph Liddy and the Skeleton Horse, The Forest, and We Are Buildings.
After completing several East Coast tours, they released a split EP in 2006 with local Cairns band Sleeping in Trains. Their debut album The Recordings of the Middle East was released on 24th April 2008
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The Middle East – Months
Chords by Tazman Osborne
These chords would be better suited to a piano. If you would like a version that sounds
better/more accurate
on guitar,use the sidebar function of this site to transpose it down two semitones and
put a capo on fret 2.
a lot of the chords alternate between barred inversions of other chords, so I’ve sort
of tried to capture that with slashes.
for eg. in the first line, the A/D/A is alternating between
A and a second
inverson of D (in a barred C chord shape),
which is hammered onto the A chord, with the open A string remaining as the bass note.
[Verse 1]
Bm Bm/E/Bm
Wake me in the morning
Bm A A/D/A
Gon’ wake me up at night
A Bm /E /Bm
Ain’t got no use for sleeping anymore
Bm A
Ain’t got enough time
/D (2nd inversion)
For myself
A A7
Or time for my friends
D D/C# Bm->E(inv)->Bm
And, and I can’t even write
A /D/A
Just wake me up, it’s fine
[Short instrumental]
C#m Bm x2
A Bm/E/Bm
[Verse 2]
Let me go away, Hitch
A /D/A
Away from where we’ve grown
Bm /E
I’ve got dirty and did wandering
/B A
Through bars and foreign family homes
G F#
And I never have cared
Bm
To be alone
Em (barred 7th fret) A7
Now i just wanna feel
D
How you would feel
D/C#m Bm . . .
Left at home
F#sus2 -9th fret (X,9,11,11,9,9)(briefly before next chord)
[Climax]
(Strum on off beat.)
D D D D, D D E
E, Bm Bm Bm Bm, A A
C#7 C#7.
D D D D, D D E
E, Bm Bm C#m C#m, D D F#F#
Hey Hitch, hey Hitch
I’m coming home
Hey Ma, hey Pa
I’m coming home
Hey dirt, hey tree, hey little girl
I’m coming come
Hey heat, hey Chris
I’m coming home
D . . . F#sus2 (9th fret) x2
C#m D A A, A…
[Verse 3]
A Bm
Well I seen many places
A
And they all been seen before
Bm
I done lost my Jack Luck spirit
A
I’m goin’ back to hitch at home
Chords by Tazman Osborne
These chords would be better suited to a piano. If you would like a version that sounds
better/more accurate
on guitar,use the sidebar function of this site to transpose it down two semitones and
put a capo on fret 2.
a lot of the chords alternate between barred inversions of other chords, so I’ve sort
of tried to capture that with slashes.
for eg. in the first line, the A/D/A is alternating between
A and a second
inverson of D (in a barred C chord shape),
which is hammered onto the A chord, with the open A string remaining as the bass note.
[Verse 1]
Bm Bm/E/Bm
Wake me in the morning
Bm A A/D/A
Gon’ wake me up at night
A Bm /E /Bm
Ain’t got no use for sleeping anymore
Bm A
Ain’t got enough time
/D (2nd inversion)
For myself
A A7
Or time for my friends
D D/C# Bm->E(inv)->Bm
And, and I can’t even write
A /D/A
Just wake me up, it’s fine
[Short instrumental]
C#m Bm x2
A Bm/E/Bm
[Verse 2]
Let me go away, Hitch
A /D/A
Away from where we’ve grown
Bm /E
I’ve got dirty and did wandering
/B A
Through bars and foreign family homes
G F#
And I never have cared
Bm
To be alone
Em (barred 7th fret) A7
Now i just wanna feel
D
How you would feel
D/C#m Bm . . .
Left at home
F#sus2 -9th fret (X,9,11,11,9,9)(briefly before next chord)
[Climax]
(Strum on off beat.)
D D D D, D D E
E, Bm Bm Bm Bm, A A
C#7 C#7.
D D D D, D D E
E, Bm Bm C#m C#m, D D F#F#
Hey Hitch, hey Hitch
I’m coming home
Hey Ma, hey Pa
I’m coming home
Hey dirt, hey tree, hey little girl
I’m coming come
Hey heat, hey Chris
I’m coming home
D . . . F#sus2 (9th fret) x2
C#m D A A, A…
[Verse 3]
A Bm
Well I seen many places
A
And they all been seen before
Bm
I done lost my Jack Luck spirit
A
I’m goin’ back to hitch at home
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