Neil Young

Neil Young - Keep On Rockin In The (chords) guitar tab

From: tms@tis.com (Tom Swiss)

Subject: Re: Help:Young - Keep on Rockin'

Martin Smart wrote:

I know you all know this, and I also know I'm the only

person on the planet who can't play it and doesn't know

the lyrics. I had a crack a working it out against a live

copy I have but it's a very noisy vinyl copy. Anyway

I came up with :

E C D played as A - shape barre chords

for the verses with a bit of right hand dampening on the E.

Try Em, D, C for the verse, then G, D, C for the chorus. Toss in an Am

after the C when going from chorus to verse.

G, D, C, Em for the chorus, then 4 bars of some A varients (Am, Asus,

A7) that I just play A for.

One of my favorites - strong lyrics, but simple enough to play after

pouring beer down my throat all night (gotta keep them vocal chords

lubricated, ya know).

ROCKIN' IN THE FREE WORLD

Neil Young - Freedom Album

Intro: Em D C (4 times in total)

Verse1:

Em D C

Colours on the street

Em D C

Red white and blue

Em D C

People shufflin' their feet

Em D C

People sleepin' in their shoes

Em D C

But there's a warnin' sign on the road ahead

Em D C

There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead

Em D C

Don't feel like Satan but I'm to them

Em D C

so I try to forget it anyway I can

CHORUS:

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G D C C Em

Keep on rockin' in the free world

G D C C Em

Keep on rockin' in the free world

G D C C Em

Keep on rockin' in the free world

G D C C Em

Keep on rockin' in the free world

A(7) x4 (interleave A with A7)

Em D C x4 (just like in the intro)

Verse 2:

I see a girl in the night

With a baby in her hand

Under an old street light

Near a garbage can

Now she puts the kid away and she's gone to get a hit

She hates her life and what she's done to it

That's one more kid that will never go to school

Never get to fall in love never get to be cool

Keep on rockin' in the free world...(x4)

A(7) x4 (interleave A with A7)

Em D C x4

Verse 3 (not included in the acoustic version):

We got a thousand points of light

For the homeless man

We got a kinder gentler machine gun hand

---[Here add an additional Em, D and C without lyrics]

We got department stores and toilet paper

Got styrophone boxes for the ozone layer

Got a man of the people says keep hope alive

Got fuel to burn got roads to drive

Keep on rockin' in the free world...(x4)

A(7) x4 (interleave A with A7)

Em D C x4

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