Chord/Tab song: Poor Boy

Poor Boy - Blind Pilot

By jtzingsheim

Tuning: Standard
Capo: 1st Fret

Verse/Chorus
(Alternate these chord lines, listen to the track for help, usually plays the
first line during vocal lines and the second line between vocal lines.)

[C] [Cmaj7] [Cadd9] [Fmaj7]

e|0-------0-------0-------0-------|
B|1-------0-------3-------1-------|
G|0-------0-------0-------2-------|
D|2-------2-------2-------3-------|
A|3-------3-------3---------------|
E|--------------------------------|


[C] [Cmaj7] [Dm] [Fmaj7]

e|0-------0-------1-------0-------|
B|1-------0-------3-------1-------|
G|0-------0-------2-------2-------|
D|2-------2-------3-------3-------|
A|3-------3-----------------------|
E|--------------------------------|


::Verse 1::

[C]Poor [Cmaj7]boy

[Cadd9]Why don't you [Fmaj7]try getting water?

[C] [Cmaj7] [Dm] [Fmaj7]
[C]Poor [Cmaj7]boy

[Cadd9]Why don't you [Fmaj7]try getting sleep?

[C] [Cmaj7] [Dm] [Fmaj7]
[C]I [Cmaj7]think

[Cadd9]if one of us [Fmaj7]is going to suffer

[C] [Cmaj7] [Dm] Why [Fmaj7]shouldn't it be me?

[C] [Cmaj7] [Dm] [Fmaj7]
::Verse 2::

[C]Poor [Cmaj7]boy

[Cadd9]Your wife is i[Fmaj7]n hard labor

[C] [Cmaj7] [Dm] [Fmaj7]
[C]The rhythm you [Cmaj7]know

[Cadd9]Is pulsing an[Fmaj7]d drifting to the grave

[C] [Cmaj7] [Dm] [Fmaj7]
[C]When you come[Cmaj7] to

You'll be [Cadd9]asking you[Fmaj7]rself just one question

[C] [Cmaj7] [Dm]Was I [Fmaj7]always this way?
[C] [Cmaj7] [Dm]Was I [Fmaj7]always this way?

::Verse 3::

[C]Think back a [Cmaj7]year

When [Cadd9]everything [Fmaj7]stood at the surface

[C] [Cmaj7] [Dm] [Fmaj7]
[C]But bandage your[Cmaj7] cuts

cause[Cadd9] you don't know what s[Fmaj7]wims underneath

[C] [Cmaj7] [Dm] [Fmaj7]
[C]Hold [Cmaj7]tight

The [Cadd9]bondage of [Fmaj7]this life is slipping

[C] [Cmaj7] [Dm] Why [Fmaj7]shouldn't it be me?

[C] [Cmaj7] [Dm] Why [Fmaj7]shouldn't it be me?

::Bridge::

[F] When I come [Fm]back

You'll be the [C]brightest [Em]star

In the [F]black[G]

[F] When there are [Fm]days

That you want the [C]call we're a[Em]ll waiting [Am]for[G]

[C]Think back

::Final Verse::

[C]Poor [Cmaj7]boy

[Cadd9]Your wife is i[Fmaj7]n hard labor

[C] [Cmaj7] [Dm] [Fmaj7]
[C]Go bu[Cmaj7]y

the [Cadd9]flowers you'll [Fmaj7]leave on its grave

[C] [Cmaj7] [Dm] [Fmaj7]
[C]You went with the [Cmaj7]goal

of [Cadd9]movement, Now [Fmaj7]one thing is different:

[C] [Cmaj7] [Dm] You [Fmaj7]don't want to change.

[C] [Cmaj7] [Dm] I do[Fmaj7]n't want to change

[C]