in standard tuning. CHORDS USED: / Am4 / e|---------------------------------------------------------x--| B|---------------------------------------------------------3--| G|---0----0-----7----0-------------------7-----7------7----0--| D|---7----7-----10---9-----7----7---7----5-----5------5----0--| A|---10---9-----0----7-----10---9---9----x-----x------x----2--| E|-------------------0-----10--10---8----7-----8------6----3--| strumming pattern: d = downstroke mainly on bass note D= donwstroke, u = upstroke this pattern is maintaind throughout most of the song. eg / 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + u u INTRO: (two times) / Am4 VERSE-LONG: / When I was a kid I grew up in a house on a Am4 Hill not the top not the bottom but the middle and I / Still remember where I cracked my head in the Vacant lot there's a row of tiny houses there / Now and we used to light fires in the gutters and Am4 I could cool my head on the concrete steps but the VERSE-: Girl down the street hit my sister on the head with a F#o Stick and we hid behind my father as he knocked on her Parents' door to tell them what she did but the F#o Parents were drunk so they really didn't give a shit LINK-1: And the VERSE: / Girl down the street said her dog couldn't bark 'cos a Am4 Man with an axe cut its voice box out but my / Older sister told me that it prob'ly wasn't true and I Am4 Believed what she said 'cos she took me by the hand one VERSE-: Time when a coupla men drove down the hill in a F#o White van said there was a phone box filled with Money 'round the corner and I would've gone along but she F#o Took me by the hand to the house in the middle of the LINK-2: Hill the middle of the hill the middle of the / / Hill and our VERSE: / Mother knew the words to a lot of different songs and we Am4 Always sing the harmonies when we'd sing along she had / Cool cool hands when the fever hit then the Am4 Noises that the trains made sounded like people in my VERSE-: Head and the stories that the ceiling told through the F#o Pictures in the grains in the pinewood boards and I could Stay outside till the sky went red and I could F#o Cool my head on the concrete steps and you CODA: Never really see the top from the bottom I don't F#o Pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em you can Never really see the top from the bottom I don't F#o Pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em I don't TAG: Pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em I don't / Pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em (I) don't Pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em I don't / Pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em no ENDING: