The Pretenders - Middle of the Road

      [INTRO]
Drums then, 
A G E x2 

A    G   D    C 
 OOO-OOO-OOOH OOH      X4


[VERSE]
                  A    G D   C         A       G D C
The middle of the road    is trying to find me      
    A               G         D            C        A        G D C
I'm standing in the middle of life with my plans be-hind me       
             A     G D           C    A    G D C    
Well I got a smile,    for everyone I meet 
   A           G          D          C      
As long as you don't try dragging my bay
    A            G          D      C
Or dropping the bomb on my street


[CHORUS]
                 A G E
Now come on baby      
                A G E
Get in the road      
               A G
Oh come on now    
       E                        A G E     E E
in the middle of the road, yeah          



[BREAK]
A     G    D       C  x2
 OOOH OOOH OOOH OOH     


[VERSE]
                     A    G D           C        A      G D C
In the middle of the road   you see the darndest things      
     A                G           D                    C         
Like fat guys driving 'round in j-eeps through the cit-y  wearing
A           G              D     C
big diamond rings and silk suits  
     A          G          D               C 
Past corrugated tin shacks full up with ki-ds
         A            G         D       C
Oh man I don't mean a hampstead nursery  
         A         G            D            C    
When you own a big chunk of the bloody third world
    A           G             D        C
The babies just come with the scenery   



[CHORUS]
                 A G E
Now come on baby
                    A G E
Ooh Get in the road      
               A G
Oh come on now    
       E                         A G E    E E
in the middle of the road YE-AH!          



[Solo]
A G D C x12 
A G E x4
        

[Bridge]
A   D G 
One     
A   D G 
two     
A     D G 
three     
A    D G 
four     


A   D     G   x4
Ooo-ooooh-ooh   



[VERSE]
                  A    D G              A         D G 
The middle of the road    is no private cul-de-sac    
A       G            D          C   
I can't get from the cab to the curb
        A             G             D C 
Without some little j-erk on my bac-k   
A                   G           
Don't harass me, ca-n't you tell
    D               C            
I'm going home, I'm tired as hell
    A             G         
I'm not the cat I used to be
  D             C           
I got a kid I'm thirty-three



[CHORUS]
      A G E
Baby!      
                 A G E
Get in the road       
               A G
Oh come on now    
       E                        A G E E E
in the middle of the road, yeah          



[Harmonica Solo]
A G D C x12 
A G E x4


End hard on last E