Mad World

by Tears For Fears / Gary Jules · posted by pagan

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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Tab

Tab based on the Gary Jules version, which is played slowly

-4  -4  -5 -5 -4  -4 -6 -6 -6 -5
All around me are familiar faces
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Worn out faces, worn out fa-ce-e's
 -4    -4  -5 -5 -4   -4   -6 -6 -6 -5
Bright and early for their daily races
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Going nowhere, going no-wh-e-r-e
-4   -5   -5  -4 -4   -6  -6   -6 -5
The tears are filling up their glasses
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No expression, no ex-pre-ss-ion
-4  -4  -5   -5 -4   -4  -6   -6  -6 -5
Hide my head, I want to drown my sorrow
6   6 6  5   6   6  6 -55-4
No tomorrow, no to-mo-rr-ow

-4  -4 -5  -5  -6  -6  -7 6
And I find it kind of funny
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I find it kind of sad
-4   -5   -5  -6   -6  -7  6
The dreams in which I'm dying
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Are the best I've ever had
-4 -5  -5  -6  -6  -7  6
I find it hard to tell you
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I find it hard to take
-4   -5 -5  -6  -6  -7  6
When people run in circles
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Its a very, very mad world, mad world

-4  -4   -5  -5  -4  -4  -6  -6   -6    -5
Children waiting for the day they feel good
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Happy birthday, happy birth-d-a-y
-4  -4   -5   -5   -4  -4  -6 -6   -6    -5
And they feel the way that every child should
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Sit and listen, sit and li-st-en

-4   -4  -5   -5  -4 -4  -6-6  -6 -5
Went to school and I was very nervous
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No-one knew me, No-one knew m-e-e-e
-4 -4  -5 -5   -4  -4   -6   -6  -6 -5
Hello teacher, tell me whats my lesson
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Look right through me, look right through m-e-e-e

-4  -4 -5  -5  -6  -6  -7 6
And I find it kind of funny
6  -7  -7  6   6  -4
I find it kind of sad
-4   -5    -5  -6   -6  -7 6
The dreams in which I'm dying
 6   6  -7   -7   6 6  -4
Are the best I've ever had
-4 -5  -5  -6  -6  -7  6
I find it hard to tell you
6  -7  -7  6    6  -4
I find it hard to take
-4   -5 -5  -6  -6  -7  6
When people run in circles
6   6 -7-7  6 6  -9  -8    -9   -8
Its a very, very mad world, mad world
-9     -8   -8    -8
Mad world, mad world
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MAD WORLD, MAD WORLD................

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