Jack Johnson - If I Had Eyes

      

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 IF I HAD EYES - JACK JOHNSON

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 Tuning: Standard
 
 So, here's a tab of Jack's newest single, "If I Had Eyes," which will be officially
 on December 11th, ultimately to come out on his album "Sleeping Through The Static," due out
 February.
 
 This tab is gonna be very basic, just to give you an idea of how to play the song, and
 to expect with regards to chords. It's very simple and straight-forward, so I hope this
 you out in some way.
 
 Chords (can be played in any variation, this is just the way i hear it)
   D5   A5   G5    Bm    Em    A       
 D Alternate form of A5, for the chorus

 e|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 B|------------------3-----8----------7-------------10-------------------------|
 G|------------------4-----9-----6----7-------------9--------------------------|
 D|--7----14---------4-----9-----7----7-------------7--------------------------|
 A|--5----12---5-----2-----7-----7----5----------------------------------------|
 E|------------3-----------------5---------------------------------------------|
 

 
 The little riff

 e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 B|---10----12\-5------7\-3----0---3-5-3--------------------------------------|
 G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 

 
 D5                    A5            
 If I had eyes in the back of my head
             G5                                Bm      D5 
 I would have told you that you looked good as I walk away
 
 (play riff)
 D5                                 A5             
 If you could have tried to trust the hand that fed
                     G5                                Bm     
 you would have never been hungry but you'd never really be...
 
 D5 A5 G5 Bm 
     
 D5 A5 G5 
   
        Bm                                                                   
 more of this or less or is there any difference or are we just holding on to
 Em A 
   
 things that we don't have anymore?
 
 Chorus:
      D              Em     
 Sometimes time doesn't heal
 G          A5 
 no not at all
      D           Em 
 it just stands still
 G          A5 
 while we fall
   D           Em       
 in or out of love again
   G         A5   
 i doubt i'm gonna
   D       Em                
 win you back when you've got
 G         A5  
 eyes like that
               A                       
 you won't let me in (hear the "Yeah!")
               D5                     
 always looking out > (Play riff here)
          A5         G5  Bm D 
 woo ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh
 D5       A5         G5  Bm D 
 ooh ooh ooh, ooh woo ooh
 
 Verse 2:
 D5                         A5               
 Lot of people spend their time just floating
            G5                  Bm  
 we were victims together but lonely
 D5                         A5                   
 you got hungry eyes that just can't look forward
        G5                      A5                                        
 can't give them enough, but we just can't start over (play the riff next)
 D5                                  A5                
 building with (thin nails)?, we're falling but holding
 G5                           Em           A 
 i don't want to take up anymore of your time
 A               
 time, time, time
            D            Em 
 Sometimes time doesn't heal
 G        A5  
 no not at all
     D          Em   
 it just stands still
 G         A5 
 while we fall
 D       Em       
 in or out of love
 G        A5            
 again i doubt i'm gonna
 D         Em                
 win you back when you've got
 G          A5 
 eyes like that
             A  
 won't let me in
                D5 
 always looking out
 
 D5        A5           G5    Bm 
 oooh ooh ooh, ooh woo ooh ooh
 
 always lookin
 
 D5 A5 G5 Bm (repeat until end)
 
 I know this is a pretty rough tab, but considering that the single hasn't even
 been released yet, I hope you can make do. Thanks to casio g.c. from the Jack Johnson message
 for the lyrics, which i modified slightly. Enjoy this, and keep listening to JJ.
 -Jamstein