Mediocre Bad Guys

Jack Johnson

Hawaiian

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INTRO (try 4, ,3,2,3) (for four counts try 4, ,3,2,3,strum)
[Bm]	[D]	[|]	[A]	[G]	[|]	
[Bm]	[D]	[|]	[A]	[G]	[|]

Verse 1
[Bm]Don't give me no [A]comic book sad looks [|][E][\]no[pluck_E] more,
[Bm]please don't [A]use those sam[|][E]e excuses you've used before,
[Bm]mmmh mhhmmm, [A]mmmh mhh, [|][E]mmmh mmmh
[Bm]you told yourself [A]so many times it's o[|][E]kay,
[Bm]so be good to [A]try, but you just don't know [|][E]how to come back down,

CHORUS (add G string at end 4, ,3,2,3,4)
and now you [|][Bm]beat me up and break me down,
[D]hopeing i don't come around,[|]
[A]kick me when i'm on the[|] [G]ground, 
[Bm]beat me up, break me down,
[D]hopeing i don't come around,[|]
[A]kick me when i'm on the[|] [G]ground, 

[Bm][\\]	[none]	[|]	[Em]	[G]	[|]
[Bm]	[A]	[|]	[E]	[A]	[|]

Verse 2
[Bm]well how about those [A]people i know, but you [|][E]know the ones i mean,
[Bm]not so good, not so bad, only [A]know what they have, and they [|][E]have only what they've seen, ohh
[Bm]them mediocre [A]bad guys don't let them bring you do[|][E]wn,
[Bm]they can't be de[A]feated, and you know, they're [|][E]never going to come around,

Chorus
and now you [|][Bm]beat me up and break me down,
[D]hopeing i don't come around,[|]
[A]kick me when i'm on the[|] [G]ground, 
[Bm]beat me up, break me down,
[D]hopeing i don't come around,[|]
[A]kick me when i'm on the[|] [G]ground,

[Bm]beat me up and break me down,
[D]hopeing i don't come around,[|]
[A]kick me when i'm on the[|] [G]ground,
[Bm]beat me up, break me down,
[D]hopeing i don't come around,[|]
[A]kick me when i'm on the[|] [G]ground,

[Bm]beat me up and break me down,
[D]hopeing i don't come around,[|]
[A]kick me when i'm on the[|] [G]ground, 
[Bm]beat me up, break me down,
[D]hopeing i don't come around,[|]
[A]kick me when i'm on the[|] [G]ground, 

Outro
[Bm]	[D]	[|]	[A]	[G]	[|]	
[Bm]	[D]	[|]	[A]	[G]	[|]	
[Bm]	[D]	[|]	[A]	[G]	[|]	[Bm] [single]


Verse 3 (sometimes included in live version)

well, [Bm]somebody's something was [A]left in the room, and [|][E]now that it's gone of course we assume,
that [Bm]somebody else needed [A]something so bad, that they [|][E]took everything somebody had,
[Bm]somebody saw him jump yeah but [A]nobody saw him slip, i guess he [|][E]lost a lot of hope
and then he lost his grip,
and now he's [Bm]lying in the freeway in the [A]middle of this mess, I [|][E]guess we lost
another one, just like the other one,