Ordinary World Tabbed by George Ireland Of Rugby.

Chords: C#m(446654) E(022100) F#(244322) A(577655) B(799877)
Main Riff: C#m,/E,F#,/C#m
PreChorus: C#m,G#,B,E
Chorus: B,F#,A,E,B

The way he plays it, he goes C#m,then you hear the slide to the E then strum strum,
then F# then strum strum slide up to the C#m so the way he plays it.. if you listen
to the acoustic version, almost sounds like 4 chords, but really its only 3

Then guitar 1 playes the foreground riff 1 :


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Main Riff:

C#m
Came in from a rainy Thursday
E B
on the avenue
C3m E B
thought I heard you talking softly
C#m E B
I turned on the lights, the TV and the radio

C#m E B
still I can't escape the ghost of you

C#m
What is happened to it all?
G#m
Crazy, some say
B E
Where is the life that I recognize?
E
gone away

B F#m
But I won't cry for yesterday
A
there's an ordinary world
E B
somehow I have to find
B F#m
And as I try to make my way
A
to the ordinary world
A E
I will learn to survive

C#m
Passion or coincidence
E B
once prompted you to say
C3m E B
"Pride will tear us both apart"
C#m
Well now pride's gone out the window
E B
cross the rooftops, runaway
C#m E B
left me in the vacuum of my heart

C#m
What is happening to me?
G#m
Crazy, some say
B E
Where is my friend when I need you most?
E
Gone away

B F#m
But I won't cry for yesterday
A
there's an ordinary world
E B
somehow I have to find
B F#m
And as I try to make my way
A
to the ordinary world
A E
I will learn to survive

Riff 1 is played again:

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C#m
Papers in the roadside
E B
tell of suffering and greed
C3m E B
feared today, forgot tomorrow
C#m
ooh, here beside the news
E B
of holy war and holy need
C#m E B
ours is just a little sorrowed talk

E
(Just blowing away)

Riff 1 played again:

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B F#m
But I won't cry for yesterday
A
there's an ordinary world
E B
somehow I have to find
B F#m
And as I try to make my way
A
to the ordinary world
A E
I will learn to survive

play this as he repeats 'I will learn'...'to survive'
A E

A E

A E

A E


I think you will find this to be the most accurate tab so far for this song!!!

Please check out my other tab Pretty Vacant by the sex pistols.