Neil Young

Neil Young - Ambulance Blues guitar tab

Steve Vetter

Ambulance Blues

Words and Music by Neil Young

typed by Steve Vetter

*Tune guitar down one step, but I think it sounds all right if you don't*

C F

Back in the old folky days

Am Em D

The air was magic when we played

C F

The river boat was rocking in the rain

Am Em D

Midnight was the time for the raid

G

Oh Isabella, Proud Isabella

Am

They tore you down and plowed you under

Bm C

You're only real with your makeup on

G D

How could I see you and stay too long

C F

All along the Navaho Trail

Am Em D

burnouts stub their toes on garbage pails

C F

Waitresses crying in the rain

Am Em D

Will their boyfriends pass this way again?

G

Oh Mother Goose, she's on the skids

Am

the shoe* ain't happy neither are the kids

Bm C

She needs someone that she can scream at

G D

And I'm such at heel for making her so bad

C F

I guess I'll call it sickness gone

Am Em D

It's hard to say the meaning to this song

C F

An ambulance can only go so fast

Am Em D

It's easy to get buried in the past

C F

When you try to make a good thing last

Am Em D

G

I saw today, in the entertainment section

Am

There's room at the top for private detection

Bm C

To Mom and Dad this just doesn't matter

G D

But it's either that or pay off the kidnappers

C F

So all you critics sit alone

Am Em D

You're no better than me for what you've shown

C F

With your stomach pump and your hook and ladder dreams

Am Em D

We could get together for some scenes

G

Well I'm up in T.O. keepin' jive alive

Am

and out on the corner it's half past five

Bm C

But the subways are empty and so are the cafes

G D

Except for the Farmer's Market and I can still hear him sayin'

C F

"You're all just pissin' in the wind

Am Em D

You don't know it but you are"

C F

And there ain't nothing like a friend

Am Em D

Who can tell you you're just pissin' in the wind

G

I never knew a man could tell so many lies

Am

he had a different story for every set of eyes

Bm C

How can he remember who he's talking to?

G D G(hold)

Cause I know it ain't me and I hope it isn't you

>From _Neil Young Complete Music Volume III (1974-1979)_

* until now, I never knew this word



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