Neil Young : A Letter Home

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Sit by my side, come as close as the air

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Share in a memory of gray

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And wander in my words

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And dream about the pictures that I play of changes Green leaves of summer turn to red in the fall To brown and to yellow they fade And then they have to die Trapped within the circle time parade of changes Scenes of my young years were warm in my mind Visions of shadows that chime 'Til one day I returned And found they were the victims of the vines, of changes The world spinning madly, it drifts in the dark Swings through a hollow of haze A race around that stars A journey through the universe ablaze, with changes

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Moments of magic will glow in the night All fears of the forest are gone But when the moment breaks They're swept away by golden drops of dawn, the dawn of changes Passions will part to a strange melody As fires will sometimes burn cold Like petals in the wind We're puppets to the silver strings of souls, of changes Your tears will be trembling, now we're somewhere else One last cup of wine will pour And I'll kiss you one more time And I'll leave you on the rolling river shores, of changes

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So sit by my side, come as close as the air Share in a memory of gray And wander in my words And dream about the pictures that I play of changes

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If you're traveling the north country fair

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Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline

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Remember me to one who lives there

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For she once was a true love of mine If you go where the snowflakes storm When the rivers freeze and summer ends Please see for me she has a coat so warm To keep her from that howlin' wind

INTRO CHORDS

Please see for me if her hair hangs long If it rolls and flows all down her breast Please see for me if her hair's hanging long That's the way I remember her best

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I'm a-wonderin' if she remembers me at all Many times I've often prayed In the darkness of my night In the brightness of my day

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So if you're travelin' the north country fair Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline Remember me to one who lives there She once was the true love of mine

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When sadness fills your heart

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And sorrow hides the longing to be free

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When things go wrong with each day

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You fix your mind to escape your misery

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Your troubled young life

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Had made you turn

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To the needle of death How strange, your happy words Have ceased to bring a smile from everyone How tears have filled the eyes Of friends that you once walked among Your troubled young life Had made you turn To the needle of death One grain of pure white snow Dissolved in blood spread quickly to your brain In peace your mind withdraws Your death's so near your soul can't feel the pain Your troubled young life Had made you turn To the needle of death Your mother stands a'cryin' While to the earth your body's slowly cast Your father stands in silence Caressing every young dream of the past Your troubled young life Had made you turn To the needle of death Through ages, man's desires To free his mind, then release his very soul Has proved to all who live That death itself is freedom for evermore And your troubled young life Had make you turn To the needle of death

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And your troubled young life Had make you turn To the needle of death

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In the early mornin' rain

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With a dollar in my hand

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And an aching in my heart

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And my pockets full of sand

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I'm a long way from home

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And I missed my loved one so

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In the early mornin' rain

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With no place to go Out on runway number nine Seven o seven set to go And I'm stuck here on the grass In the pavement never grows And the liquor tasted good And the women all were fast There she goes my friend She'll be rolling down at last

Harmonica over verse chords

Hear the mighty engines roar See the silver wing on high She's away and westward bound For above the clouds she'll fly Where the mornin' rain don't fall Where the sun always shines She'll be flying over my home In about three hours time This ol' airport's got me down It's no earthly good to me Cause I'm stuck here on the ground Cold and drunk as I can be You can't jump a jet plane Like you can a freight train So I best be on my way In the early mornin' rain

Harmonica over verse chords

Crazy I'm crazy for feeling so lonely I'm crazy Crazy for feeling so blue I knew You'd love me as long as you wanted And then someday You'd leave me for somebody new Worry Why do I let myself worry Wondering What in the world did I do Crazy For thinking that my love could hold you I'm crazy for trying I'm crazy for crying I'm crazy for loving you I'm crazy for crying I'm crazy for trying I'm crazy for loving you

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If I listened long enough to you

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I'd find a way to believe that it's all true

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Knowing that you lied straight-faced while I cried

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Still I look to find a reason to believe

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Someone like you makes it hard to live without somebody else

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Someone like you makes it easy to give never thinking of myself

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If I gave you time to change my mind

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I'd find a way to leave the past behind

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Knowing how you lied straight-faced while I cried

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Still I look to find a reason to believe

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Someone like you makes it hard to live without somebody else

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On the road again

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Just can't wait to get on the road again

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The life I love is makin' music with my friends

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And I just can't wait to get on the road again On the road again Goin' places that I've never been Seeing thing that I may never see again And I just can't wait to get on the road again

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On the road again

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Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway

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We're the best of friends

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Insisting that the world keep turning our way, and our way Is on the road again Just can't wait to get on the road again The life I love is makin' music for my friends And I can't wait to get on the road again

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On the road again Goin' places that I've never been

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Seeing thing that I may never see again

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Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway

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And I just can't wait to get on the road again

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If you could read my mind love

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What a tale my thoughts could tell

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Just like an old time movie

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'bout a ghost from a wishin' well

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In a castle dark or a fortress strong

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With chains upon my feet

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You know that ghost is me

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And I will never be set free

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As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see

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If I could read your mind, love What a tale your thoughts could tell Just like a paperback novel The kind the drugstores sell Then you reached the part where the heartaches come The hero would be me But heroes often fail And you won't read that book again Because the ending's just too hard to take!

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I'd walk away like a movie star

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Who gets burned in a three way script

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Enter number two

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A movie queen to play the scene

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Of bringing all the good things out in me

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But for now, love, let's be real

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I never thought I could feel this way

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And I'm about say that I just don't get it

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I don't know where we went wrong

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But the feelings gone and I just can't get it back!

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If you could read my mind, love What a tale my thoughts could tell 'bout a ghost from a wishing well In a castle dark or a fortress strong With chains upon my feet But stories always end And if you read between the lines You'd find that I'm just tryin' to understand The feelings that you lack

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I never thought I could feel this way

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And I'm about say that I just don't get it

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I don't know where we went wrong

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But the feelings gone and I just can't get it back!

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Since I met you baby my whole life has changed Since I met you baby my whole life has changed And my friends all tell me that I am not the same I don't need nobody to tell my troubles to I don't need nobody to tell my troubles to Cause since I met you baby all I need is you Since I met you baby I'm a happy man Yeah since I met you baby I'm a happy man I'm gonna try to please you in every way I can

I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town He'd tousle my hair and say son take a good look around This is your hometown Your hometown This is your hometown This is your hometown In '65 tension was running high at my high school There was a lot of fights between the blacks and white There was nothing you could do Two cars at a light on a Saturday night in the backseat there was a gun Words were passed in a shotgun blast And troubled times had come to my hometown My hometown My hometown My hometown Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back To your hometown Your hometown Your hometown Your hometown Last night me and Kate laid in bed Talking about getting out Packing up our bags and maybe heading south I'm thirty-five we got a boy of our own now Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good look around This is your hometown

I wonder if I care as much As I did before Last night I cried myself to sleep For the one that makes me weep I dried my eyes to greet the day And wondered why I had to pay The tears that I have shed by day Give relief and wash away The memory of the night before I wonder if I'll suffer more I wonder if I care as much As I did before My pride is made to say forgive And take the blame for what you did It's your mistakes I'm thinking of I wonder if I'm still in love My heart can't thrive on misery My life, it has no destiny When things get more than I can bear I ask myself, do I still care I wonder if I care as much As I did before

Neil Young : A Letter Home
2014

Changes

Girl From The North Country

Needle Of Death

Early Morning Rain

Crazy

Reason To Believe

On The Road Again

If You Could Read My Mind

Since I Met You Baby

My Hometown

I Wonder If I Care As Much

Neil Young : A Letter Home 2014

Changes

Girl From The North Country

Needle Of Death

Early Morning Rain

Crazy

Reason To Believe

On The Road Again

If You Could Read My Mind

Since I Met You Baby

My Hometown

I Wonder If I Care As Much

Neil Young : A Letter Home
2014