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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, CB, Amin, F to the best of my 


knowledge. 





   C   CB  Aminor F           C  CB  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---------------------3-3/5-5-53-2-0----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