Artist: | Neil Young (English) |
User: | Andrew Sunshine Frangs |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
Intro: G
G C G C G
Look out, Ma, there's a white boat comin' up the river
C G C G
With a big red beacon and a flag and a man on the rail
C
I think you better call John/ it
Bm C
don't look like they're here to deliver/ the mail
Bm Cmaj7
And it's less than a mile away
Bm Cmaj7
I hope they didn't come to stay
Bm Cmaj7
It's got numbers on the side and a gun
D //// ////
it's makin' big waves
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Daddy's gone and my brother's out huntin' in the mountains
C G C G
Big John's been drinkin' since the river took Emmy Lou
C Bm C
So the powers that be left me here to do the thinkin'
Bm Cmaj7
And I just turned twenty-two
Bm Cmaj7
I was wonderin' what to do
Bm
And the closer they got
Cmaj7 D ////’////
The more those feelin's grew
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G C G C G
Daddy's rifle in my hand felt reassurin’
C G C G
He told me "Red means run, son, and numbers add up to nothin'"
C Bm C
When the first shot hit the dock I saw it comin'
Bm Cmaj7
Raised my rifle to my eye
Bm Cmaj7
Never stopped to wonder why
Bm Cmaj7 D ////’////
Then I saw black and my face splashed in the sky
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C G
G C G C G
Shelter me from the powder and the finger
C G C G
Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger
C Bm C
Just think of me as one you never figured (out)
Bm Cmaj7
You fade away so young
Bm Cmaj7
So much left undone
Bm Cmaj7 D ////’////
Remember me to my love, I know I'll miss her
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