Name: Jon Aleman Tabs: This is a song of the new Matchbox Twenty album mad season by matchbox twenty. If you don’t have it, get it, it is absolutely amazing. This song is Black and White People, it’s accompanied by a bunch of horns and such so it’s best to just play along with the CD. Standard tuning... no capo. CHORDS: E-A-D-G-B-E G: 320033 C: x32010 Em:022000 D5: xx023x Cadd9: x3203x INTRO: This is the horn part tabbed for guitar. It’s all just on the high e string. e--3-3-1-3-3-1-3-8-7-5-5-3-3-3-1-3-8-6-8-10-3-1-3-1-3-3-1-3-8-7-5-- e--5-3-3-1-3-1-0-8-13-12-10 VERSE 1: G C G C One more day down, Everybody has those days G C G C Where one soft sweet song is just enough to clear my head In between "head" and the chord change is this on horns: E:3-3-3-1-1-1-1-2-3 G C Fall on real life, (fall on real life) G C Is anybody left here sane? Em D5 Cadd9 And we’ll slide on over, the accept fate G Man it’s bound to be a powerful thing CHORUS: G C And if it’s just that you’re weak, can we talk about it? G C It’s gettin so damn creepy just nursing this D5 Ghost of a chance Cadd9 The fiction, the romance, and the Technicolor dreams G C G C Black and white people VERSE 2: G C One boy headstrong G C He thinks everything here is just plain G C G C He’s pushed down so hard you can hear him start to sink G C G And it’s one last round of this petty conversation C Em You hold on boy, cuz you won’t go down like this D5 Cadd9 You just roll on over and lay down till it’s more that you can take CHORUS: same as last time The solo (with horns) is as follows: E-7-5-7-5-7-5-0-3-5-3-3-2-0-2-3-2 E-7-5-7-5-7-5-0-3-2-3-3-2-2-0-2-3 E-2-3-7-5-5-3-5-7 That little guitar thing in between solo and next verse: e----3-------------------- B-----3-------3---------- G--------0--------------- G C G C So one more day down, everybody’s changing G C D5 One soft sweet song is just enough to clear my.... Cadd9 My head CHORUS: same as last time Outro: Just switch between G and C, it’s kinda confusing Any questions, comments, email me at jona@ufl.edu.
