Black And White People by Matchbox 20

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.


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