Ambulance Blues chords by Neil Young

Chords with lyrics

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

 C majorC             FF
Back in the old folky days

 A minorAm        E minorEm         D MajorD
The air was magic when we played

 C majorC                   FF
The river boat was rocking in the rain

 A minorAm          E minorEm        D MajorD
Midnight was the time for the raid

 G+G
Oh Isabella, Proud Isabella

 A minorAm
They tore you down and plowed you under

 B minorBm                C majorC
You're only real with your makeup on

 G+G          D MajorD
How could I see you and stay too long

 C majorC             FF
All along the Navaho Trail

 A minorAm           E minorEm          D MajorD
Burnouts stub their toes on garbage pails

 C majorC              FF
Waitresses crying in the rain

 A minorAm           E minorEm          D MajorD
Will their boyfriends pass this way again'

 G+G
Oh Mother Goose, she's on the skids

 A minorAm
The shoe* ain't happy neither are the kids

 B minorBm              C majorC
She needs someone that she can scream at

 G+G           D MajorD
And I'm such at heel for making her so bad

 C majorC                 FF
I guess I'll call it sickness gone

 A minorAm           E minorEm          D MajorD
It's hard to say the meaning to this song

 C majorC                FF
An ambulance can only go so fast

 A minorAm         E minorEm         D MajorD
It's easy to get buried in the past

 C majorC                  FF
When you try to make a good thing last

A minorAm  E minorEm  D MajorD

 G+G
I saw today, in the entertainment section

 A minorAm
There's room at the top for private detection

 B minorBm        C majorC
To Mom and Dad this just doesn't matter

 G+G           D MajorD
But it's either that or pay off the kidnappers

 C majorC              FF
So all you critics sit alone

 A minorAm            E minorEm              D MajorD
You're no better than me for what you've shown

 C majorC                         FF
With your stomach pump and your hook and ladder dreams

 A minorAm          E minorEm         D MajorD
We could get together for some scenes


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

 A minorAm
And out on the corner it's half past five

 B minorBm              C majorC
But the subways are empty and so are the cafes

 G+G                D MajorD
Except for the Farmer's Market and I can still hear him sayin'

 C majorC                  FF
"You're all just pissin' in the wind

 A minorAm        E minorEm        D MajorD
You don't know it but you are"

 C majorC                FF
And there ain't nothing like a friend

 A minorAm               E minorEm         D MajorD
Who can tell you you're just pissin' in the wind


 G+G
I never knew a man could tell so many lies

 A minorAm
He had a different story for every set of eyes

 B minorBm           C majorC
How can he remember who he's talking to'

G+G            D MajorD            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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