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Song title:      The Modern World
Original Album:	 This Is The Modern World

Words and Music by Paul Weller
Copyright © 1977 Polydor Records (UK)
Published by EMI Music Publishing Limited

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


INTRO:

[play: Guitar Figure 1]  [x2]


Guitar Figure 1

      A           D       A
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                                   This is the modern world

      A           D       A
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                                   This is the modern world

  G5
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VERSE:
C              G                   C    F  G
  What kind of fool do you think I am?
C                  G                     C      C7
  You think I know nothing of the modern world?

Am       F                 Am
  All my life has been the same
                F                Am
I've learned to live by hate and pain
        F           D      F  G
It's my inspiration drive


VERSE:
C              G                     C     F  G
  I've learned more then you'll ever know
C         G                   C     C7
  Even in school I felt quite sure

Am             F             Am
  That one day I would be on top
             F             Am
And I'd look down upon the map
                 F             D      Bm  G  A
The teachers who said I'd be nothing


CHORUS:
D             E                       A           Bm  G  A
  This is the modern world that I've learned about
D           E                      A
This is the modern world, we don't need no one
   Bm                      G5
To tell us what's right or wrong
This is the modern world!


[Guitar SOLO]


[play: | G |]  [x4]


VERSE:
D              A                    D    G  A
  Say what you like, 'cause I don't care
D                A            D     D7
  I know where I am and going to

Bm               G
  It's somewhere I won't preview
Bm                G               Bm
  Don't have to explain myself to you
                 G                E
I don't give two fucks about your review


[repeat CHORUS]


OUTRO:
    A
The modern world this is, this is, this is, this is,
D                      E
This is, this is, this is,
         A              D                Bm       G
We don't need no-one to tell us what's a-right or wrong,

Ahh,


[play:]


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                                   This is the modern world

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                                   This is the modern world

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