Poor Taylorv2

Poor Taylor - Jack Johnson

Tabbed by Seanoss Demestoss Asbestos Malestos Infectos (it's ok to tell)

sean_nostin@hotmail.com

Standard tuning, no capo.

This song sounds awesome if you do it right and do it well and do it on a good acoustic guitar.

You'll need to listen to the song a bit too to get the strumming going right and the solo funky.

The solo has gotta be played funky or else it wont sound good. Get some diagonal head nodding

movement in there too if you can, every bit helps.

Play E minor7 like this: it sounds better

Em7: 1234

e----

Bx---

A-x--

I'll assume you know F, C and Am. If not, you wont be good enough to get through this song anyway.

// = slap

h = hammer on

p = pull off

s = slide

Normal strumming for the intro, no muting. Listen to the track for the strum pattern.

She just wanders around

unaffected by the winter winds here

and she pretends that she's somewhere else

so far and clear

two thousand miles.... from here

rip straight into the solo, nice and funky now:

solo

hammer the D string here while

C - let chord ring C C strumming and strum back into verse

ok the strumming in this next bit is different from the start. Jack is picking

the top string of the chord TWICE (so the A string for the C, Em7 and Am chords and the E

string for the F chord) and then strums the chord ONCE and then up-strums and changes to the

next chord, all with just a wee bit of palm muting. You'll have to listen to the song

carefully to hear what he's doing. Anyway, here's the next bit:

Taylor was a good girl never one to be late,

complain, express ideas in her brain.

Workin' on the night shift passing out the tickets,

you're gonna have to pay her if you wanna park here.

Well mommy's little dancer has quite a little secret

she's workin on the streets now, never gonna keep it.

It's quite an imposition and now she's only wishin'

that she would have listened to the words they say

.....Poor Taylor :(

After singin' "Poor Taylor" launch straight back into the solo. It's the exact same solo as above.

Then, next verse:

peter patrick pitter patters on the window

but sunny silhouette wont let him in.

Poor old Peter's got nothing cos he's been fallin'

somehow Taylor knows just where he's been.

He thinks that singin' on Sundays gonna save his soul

Now that Saturday's gone.

Sometimes he thinks that he's on his way

But I can see,

F C -> straight into last few chords:

that his brake lights are on.

the last couple of chords to end the song I dont know exactly what they're called,

but they slide up from the C and go a little somethin' like this:

Ch1: 1234567 Ch2: 1234567 Ch3: 1234567

C Ch1 Ch2 Ch3 C Ch1

if Taylor finds a better world

Ch2 Ch3 play C without 3rd finger, then slide right up the neck to end the song!

then Taylor's gonna run away