Neil Young - Powderfinger (chords) guitar tab

lyrics: from the lp cover/audio

chords: audio

corrections/suggestions (especially on 'ride my llama' and 'sedan delivery' -

see below) welcomed

rcwoods|famoore@unix1.tcd.ie

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Powderfinger : Rust Never Sleeps

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'ld better call John

Bm C

'cause it don't look like they're here to deliver the mail

Bm7 CM7

And it's less than a mile away

Bm7 CM7

I hope they hope they didn't come to stay

Bm7 CM7

It's got numbers on the side and a gun

D

and it's makin' big waves

G C G C G

Daddy's gone and my brother's out huntin' in the mountains

Big John's been drinkin' since the river took Emmy Lou

So the powers that be left me here to do the thinkin'

And I just turned twenty-two

I was wonderin' what to do

And the closer they got

The more those feelin's grew

inter-verse:

G C G C G

G C G C G

G C G C G

C Bm C

Bm7 CM7

Bm7 CM7

Bm7 CM7 D

G C G C G

Daddy's rifle in my hand felt reassurin;

He told me "Red means run, son, and numbers add up to nothin'"

When the first shot hit the dock I saw it comin'

Raised my rifle to my eye

Never stopped to wonder why

Then I saw black and my face splashed in the sky

inter-verse

Shelter me from the powder and the finger

Cover me with the one that pulled the trigger

Just think of me as one you never figured

Would fade away so young

With so much left undone

Remember me to my love, I know I'll miss her

G C G C G

notes:

CM7 032000

Bm7 xx4323