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Neil Young : Neil Young
1969


  1. The Loner
  2. If I Could Have Her Tonight
  3. I've Been Waiting For You
  4. The Old Laughing Lady

  5. Here We Are In The Years
  6. What Did You Do To My Life?
  7. I've Loved Her So Long
  8. The Last Trip To Tulsa

The Loner

Tuning: DADGBD (Double Drop D)
G7 550033 Gm7 355333
D 0x0230 Am7 577555
C x32010 Am 577557
F*
G*
C*
D*
C
D
G7
D
C
D
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G7
(
F
)
D
He's a perfect stranger, a cross of himself and a fox
G7
(
F
)
D
He's a feeling arranger and a changer of the ways he talks
G7
(
F
)
D
He's the unforeseen danger, the keeper of the key to the locks
Gm7
Am7
Know when you see him
Gm7
Am7
Nothing can free him
Gm7
Am7
Step aside, open wide
D
It's the loner
If you see him in the subway he'll be down at the end of the car Watching you move until he knows he knows who you are When you get off at your station alone he'll know that you are Know when you see him Nothing can free him Step aside, open wide It's the loner
Fmaj7
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There was a woman he knew about a year or so ago She had something that he needed and he pleaded with her not to go On the day that she left he died, but it did not show Know when you see him Nothing can free him Step aside, open wide It's the loner


If I Could Have Her Tonight

D6 xx0202
D/a x04x3x
E/a x05x5x
Dsus2
D
D6
All of a sudden she was on my mind
Dmaj7
G
Em
I wasn't ready for her kind
Bb
Em
A
And she was taking her time
C
G
What if she came to me?
C
G
Would she be kind?
C
G
And if she stayed with me
A
D/a
E/a
D/a
Do you think that she'd like to do anything I would?
A
D
Or would she leave me?
Dsus2
Lately I've found myself losing my mind Knowing how badly I need her It's something hard to find What if she came to me? Would she be kind? And if she stayed with me Do you think that she'd like to do anything I would? Of would she leave me?
D7
If I could have her tonight
F
Does she want to go?
F
Look at those eyes
F
Does she want it?
D7
If I could have her tonight
D7
If I could have her tonight
G
D
If I could have her tonight
D6
Dmaj7
G
Em
Gm7
Em7b5
A
A7
C


I've Been Waiting For You

D9 x00210
Dsus2
Am7
Am
Fmaj7
Am7
Am
x2
Am
D9
I've been looking for a woman
C
D9
To save my life
Fmaj7
Em
Fmaj7
Em
Not to beg or to borrow
Am
D9
A woman with the feeling
C
D9
Of losing once or twice
Fmaj7
Em
Fmaj7
Em
Who knows how it could be tomorrow?
Am
Am/g
I've been waiting for you
Am/f#
Fmaj7
And you've been coming to me
Dsus2
Am7
Am
For such a long time now
Fmaj7
Am7
Am
Such a long time now
Am
D9
C
D9
Fmaj7
Em
Fmaj7
Em
Am
D9
C
D9
Fmaj7
Em
Fmaj7
Em
Am
Am/g
I've been waiting for you
Am/f#
Fmaj7
And you've been coming to me
Dsus2
Am7
Am
For such a long time now
Fmaj7
Am7
Am
Such a long time now
Dsus2
Am7
Am
Such a long time now
Fmaj7
Am7
Am
Such a long time now...


The Old Laughing Lady

G
C
G
G
C
G
Don't call pretty Peggy, she can't hear you no more
G
C
G
Don't leave no message round her back door
C
G
They say the old laughing lady been here before
D
C
G
She don't keep time, she don't count score
G
C
G
G
C
G
You can't have a cupboard if there ain't no wall
C
You got to move, there's no time for you to stall
C
/b
Am
C
D
G
They say the old laughing lady dropped by to call
D
Am
C
G
And when she leaves, she leaves nothing at all
G
C
G
See the drunkard of the village fallin' on the street
C
G
He can't tell his ankle from the rest of his feet
C
/b
Am
C
G
Bm
He loves his old laughing lady Because the taste is so sweet
D
Am
C
G
But the laughin' lady's loving ain't the kind he can keep
D
Am
C
G
G
C
G
There's a fever on the freeway, blacks out the night
C
G
There's a slippin' on the stairway, just don't feel right
C
C
G
There's a rumblin' in the bedroom and a flashin' of light
D
C
G
There's the old laughing lady, everything is all right
D
C
G
There's the old laughing lady, everything is all right
D
Am
C
G


Here We Are In The Years

G
/f#
Em
Am
C
G
/f#
Em
Am
D
x2
G
/f#
Em
Now that the holidays have come
Am
C
They can relax and watch the sun
G
/f#
Em
Am
D
Rise above all of the beautiful things they've done
Go to the country, take the dog Look at the sky without the smog See the world, laugh at the farmers feeding hogs
Am
D
E
Eat hot-dogs
(
E
)
G#
C
F#
What a pity that the people from the city
F
Am
C
Em
/bb
Can't relate to the slower things
D
Dmaj7
That the country brings
D
Dmaj7
G
C
G
/c
G
G
Time itself is bought and sold
Em
The spreading fear of growing old
Bm
C
Contains a thousand foolish games
G
That we play
G
While people planning trips to stars
Em
Bm
C
Allow another boulevard to claim a quiet country lane
G
A
Asus4
A
It's insane
A
G
Bm
D
E
Em/g
F#m
Em/g
F#m
So the subtle face is a loser this time around
G
A
Here we are in the years
D
Where the showman shifts the gears
G
Lives become careers
D
G
A
Children cry in fear, "Let us out of here"
Asus2
Asus4
Asus2
A
Asus2
F#
F
D


What Did You Do To My Life?

Dmaj7
Em/d
Dmaj7
Em7
A
Dmaj7
Em/d
When we were living together
Dmaj7
Em7
A
I thought that I knew you would stay
Dmaj7
Em/d
Still, when you left me I tried to pretend
Dmaj7
Em7
A
We could make it some way
Am
F
I don't care if all of the mountains turn to dust in the air (What did you do to my)
Am
F
It isn't fair that I should wake up at dawn and not find you there
Em7
Am7
Em7
Am7
What did you do to my life?
Cmaj7
Am7
Dm7
Em7
A
A+
Dmaj7
Em/d
It's hard enough losing without
Dmaj7
Em7
A
The confusion of knowing I tried
Dmaj7
Em/d
But you've made your mind up that I'll be alone
Dmaj7
Em7
A
Now there's nothing to hide
Am
F
I don't care if all the mountains turn to dust in the air (What did you do to my)
Am
It isn't fair that I should wake up at dawn and not find you there
Em7
Am7
Em7
Am7
What did you do to my life?
Cmaj7
Am7
Dm7
Em7
A
A+


I've Loved Her So Long

Bm
A
Bm
A
Dmaj7
Bm
A
She's a victim of her senses, do you know her?
Bm
A
Dmaj7
Can you see her in the distance as she tumbles by?
Bm
A
Veteran of a race that should be over
Bm
Bm/a
A
Bm
Can you hear her sigh? With wings to fly
E/g#
A
A/g#
D/f#
She rolls along doing it wrong
A
E
D
A
E
D
Oh, I've loved her so long, oh I've loved her so long
D
A
Bm
A
G
There's a place that I know, we could go, get away for a while
D
A
Bm
A
I can bring her the peace that she needs
G
Give her reason to smile
Bm
E
C#m
D
A
E
D
Oh, I've loved her so long
A
E
D
Oh, I've loved her so long


The Last Trip To Tulsa

A9 x02423
Asus2
Asus2
C
Well, I used to drive a cab, you know, I heard a siren scream
D
C
Asus2
Pulled over to the corner and fell into a dream
Asus2
C
There were two men eating pennies and three young girls who cried
D
C
Asus2
"The West coast is falling, I see rocks in the sky"
E
The preacher took his bible and he laid it on the stool
D
C
He said, "With the congregation running, why should I play the fool?"
Asus2
Asus2
C
Well I used to be a woman, you know I took you for a ride
D
C
A
I let you fly my airplane, it looked good for your pride
A
C
'Cause you're the kind of man, you know, who likes what he says
D
C
A
I wonder what's it's like to be so far over my head
E
Well, the lady made the wedding and she brought along the ring
D
C
C
She got down on her knees and said, "Let's get on with this thing!"
A7
A7
C
Well I used to be a folk singer keeping managers alive
D
C
A7
When you saw me on a corner and told me I was jive
A7
C
So I unlocked your mind, you know to see what I could see
D
C
A9
If you guarantee the postage I'll mail you back the key
E
Well I woke up in the morning with an arrow through my nose
D
C
There was an Indian in the corner tryin' on my clothes
A
Em7
A
C
Well I used to be asleep, you know, with blankets on my bed
D
C
Esus4
I stayed there for a while, 'til they discovered I was dead
A
C
The coroner was friendly, I liked him quite a lot
D
C
A
If I hadn't a-been a woman I guess I'd never have been caught
E
They gave me back my house and car and nothing more was said
A
A
C
Well I was driving down the freeway when my car ran out of gas
D
C
A
Pulled over to the station, but I was afraid to ask
A
C
The servicemen were yellow and the gasoline was green
D
C
A
Although I knew I could not, thought that I was gonna scream
E
That was on my last trip to Tulsa, just before the snow
D
C
If you ever need a ride there, be sure to let me know
A
A
C
I was chopping down a palm tree when a friend dropped by to ask
D
C
Asus2
If I would feel less lonely if he helped me swing the axe
A
C
I said, "No, it's not a case of being lonely we have here
D
C
Asus2
I've been working on this palm tree for eighty-seven years"
Asus2*
C
I said, "No, it's not a case of being lonely we have here
D
C
A7
I've been working on this palm tree eighty-seven years"
E
He said, "Go get lost," and walked towards his Cadillac
D
Dsus4
C
C
I chopped down the palm tree and it landed on his back