Average Joe David Ryan Harris
[Intro]
[E] [F#] [A] [E] [E]
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I just don't
*Thumb on low E
[Verse]
[E] [E]
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get it. What does she see in him? They're nothing
[F#] [A] [E]
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like we were. Damn he's so
[E] [E]
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small town. She's such a city girl. I'm abso-
[F#] [A] [F#] [A]
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-lutely sure, he's not the one for her. But still
[Precborus A]
[B] [C#m] [Asus2]
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he gets to kiss the queen. While I'm down here on my own
[B] [C#m] [Asus2]
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He sits next to her like her king, While I'm in the shadows
[B] [Cm#5] [C#m] [E/G#]
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He's bland, he's ordinary, He's such a bore but everybody knows
[F#sus4] [F#] [F#m] [A]
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When the curtains close, He'll be kiss-
[Cborus]
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-ing his queen, I'll just walk
home alone. He's her new
everything. So that makes me the
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Average Joe.
[Verse]
[E]
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I thought we were the
[E] [E]
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real thing. We were just one wedding ring short, Of a once in a
[F#] [A] [E]
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life time love. Well, now that it's
[E] [E]
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over I just don't understand, How she thinks they com-
[F#] [A] [F#] [A]
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-pare to us. He'll never be good enough. But still
[Precborus A]
[B] [C#m] [Asus2]
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he gets to kiss the queen. While I'm down here on my own
[B] [C#m] [Asus2]
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He sits next to her like her king, While I'm in the shadows
[B] [Cm#5] [C#m] [E/G#]
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He's bland, he's ordinary, He's such a bore but everybody knows
[F#sus4] [F#] [F#m] [A]
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When the curtains close, He'll be kiss-
[Cborus]
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-ing his queen, I'll just walk
home alone. He's her new
everything. So that makes me the
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Average Joe.
[Interlude]
*Here I've written out the cello melody for guitar lead with the backing chords on top
[C#m] [G#] [A] [E]
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[C#m] [G#] [A] [E]
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[Bridge]
[C#m] [G#] [A] [E]
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Now I'm a punch line, I'm the story that everyone knows.
[A] [E] [F#m] [G#]
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Of how even the invisible Can become an Average Joe
[Precborus A]
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No more kissing the queen I'll never sit on the throne
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He sits next to her like her king, I'm in the shadows
[E] [C#m] [E/G#]
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He's bland, he's ordinary, He's such a bore but everybody knows
[F#sus4] [F#] [F#m] [A]
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When the curtains close, He'll be kiss-
[Cborus/Outro]
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-ing his queen, I'll just walk
home alone. He's her new
everything. So that makes me the
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Average Joe.
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