This is just the best song ever, and I'm lucky enough to have seen a copy from Tom
himself (aaah!!) so these should be very accurate! This is the video i sorta learnt it
off http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8QnGZEbdjo
Tabbed by TheRustyBlues / TheRainmaker
Capo on 2nd fret
CAm
Out of the rain I burst in through the front door,
CAm
Soaking and bleeding again I hit the floor spinning
G
Backpack on my back, it's weighing me down
G
Weighing me down, weighing me down.
CAmCAmCAm
I think it's that I don't know kids and they don't know me
CAm
But I know one thing, that I'm safer in my room
G
I've got the internet, I meet friends on msn,
G
Friends' friends, friends' friends, they tell me
CAm
I can put stuff in your backpack that'll scare the
CAm
Shit out of kids, that chase you in the street
GF
That'd help me out... That'd help me out
AmF
That'd help me out... That'd help me out
C
But after a while I get tired,
GC
They try to get me to study but I've got
AmG
Things to do... I've got homework too
Em
'Cause they don't know my dad
FC
He's this town through and through
Em
Old school fifty-something balding racist
FC
And so his mates are too
GEm
But me I'm a modern man!
GEm
Me I'm a modern man!
FAm
I'm a modern man a wo-ooah
FAm
I'm a modern man a wo-ooah
G
And I think I'm intelligent
Am
I think I'm open minded
G
And I think I've got a world view
Am
And there's not many people like me round here I can tell you
GAm
And I think I'm the future
G
And I think I'm dead
Am
if I lose track
Em
'Cause they don't know my dad
FC
He's this town through and through
Em
Old school fifty-something balding racist
FC
And so his mates are too
GEm
But me I'm a modern man!
GEm
Me I'm a modern man!
FAm
I'm a modern man a wo-ooah
FAm
I'm a modern man a wo-ooah
G
Yeah me I'm a modern man
G
Me I'm a modern man
FAm
I'm a modern man a wo-ooah
FAmG
I'm a modern man a wo-oo-oo-aaahhh yeah yeah yeah yeah oh
G.... Am