"Average Person" (Capo: 5th. fret)
____Intro:
EE7/A
____Prelude: 1
EAE
Look at the average person,
BmB
Speak to the man in the street.
EAEF#mG
Can you imagine the first one you'd meet?
F#mE
Doo-doo-doo-doo__________,
EF#mGF#mE
Doo-doo-doo__________, doo-doo-doo-doo.
____Verse: 1
EAmE
Well, I'm talking to a former engine driver, (dri_ver)
EAmE
Trying to find out what he used to do.
AmBmAm
Tells me that he always kept his engine (en_gine)
E
Spit and polished up as good as new.
B7
but he said his only great ambition
EAmaj7
was to work with lions in a zoo
Emaj7A
(oh, to work with lions in a zoo?)
AmE/G#F#m7-5 E
Yes, dear, you heard right,
AmE/G#F#m7B7E
told me his ambition was to work with lions ev'ry night
AmE/G#F#m7-5 E
Na__na, na-na-na-na,
AE/G#
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
FBE7
na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
____Prelude: 2
EAE
Look at the average person,
BmB
Speak to the man on the beat.
EAEF#mG
Can you imagine the first one you'd meet?
F#mE
Ee-ee-ee--ee__________,
EF#mGF#mE
Doo-doo-doo__________, doo-doo-doo-doo.
____Verse: 2
( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/p/paul_mccartney/average_person_crd_ver_2.html )
EAmE
Well, I met a woman working as a waitress, (wai_tress)
EAmE
I asked exactly what it was she did.
AmBmAm
Said she worked the summer crowd at seasides, (seasides)
E
Winter time she ran away and hid.
B7
Once she had a hollywood audition
EAmaj7
but the part was given to a kid.
Emaj7A
(Yes, the part was given to a kid)
AmE/G#F#m7-5 E
Yes, sir, you heard right,
AmE/G#F#m7B7E
Hollywood ambition made a starlet grown up overnight-ee.
AmE/G#F#m7-5 E
Na__na, na-na-na-na,
AE/G#
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
FB77
na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
____Guitar solo: 1
Cmaj7Gmaj7Dm7Cmaj7
Oo____________Oo______________
Bsus
I know someone, an engine driver,
Oo______________________
B
I know someone who'd been a boxer,
Oo______________________
Bsus
I know for sure, I know,
BB
I know that they are super!
____Verse: 3
EAmE
Well, I bumped into a man who'd been a boxer, (bo_xer)
EAmE
asked him what had been his greatest night.
AmBmAm
He looked into the corners of his mem'ry, (mem'ry)
E
searching for a picture of the fight.
B7
but he said he always had a feeling
EAmaj7
that he lacked a little extra height.
Emaj7A
(could have used a little extra height)
AmE/G#F#m7-5 E
Yes, mate, you heard right,
AmE/G#F#m7B7E
He always had a feeling that he might have lacked a little height.
AmE/G#F#m7-5 E
Na__na, na-na-na-na, ee__
AE/G#
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
FBE7
na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
____Guitar solo: 2
AEFEm7-5
AEFB77
____Prelude: 3
EAE
Look at the average person,
BmB
Speak to the man in the queue.
EAEF#mG
Can you imagine the first one is__you?
____Coda:
F#mE
Oo-oo-oo--oo,
EFGFEm
*Doo-doo-doo__________, doo-doo-doo-doo* (Repeat *-* once more)
Dmaj7Cmaj9
Doo-doo---doo,
EAE
Look at the average person.