Poor Taylor chords

Jack Johnson

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  			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