Chords with lyrics
From: [email protected] (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 MajorE 
C majorC 
D MajorD played as 
A augmentedA - shape barre chords
>>for the verses with a bit of right hand dampening on the E.
>
>Try Em, D, C majorC for the verse, then G, D, C majorC for the chorus. Toss in an 
A minorAm
>after the C majorC when going from chorus to verse.
G, D, C, 
E minorEm for the chorus, then 4 bars of some A augmentedA varients (Am, Asus,
A7A7) that I just play A augmentedA 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: E minorEm D MajorD C majorC (4 times in total)
Verse1:
E minorEm D MajorD C majorC
Colours on the street
E minorEm D MajorD C majorC
Red white and blue
E minorEm D MajorD C majorC
People shufflin' their feet
E minorEm D MajorD C majorC
People sleepin' in their shoes
E minorEm D MajorD C majorC
But there's a warnin' sign on the road ahead
E minorEm D MajorD C majorC
There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead
E minorEm D MajorD C majorC
Don't feel like Satan but I'm to them
E minorEm D MajorD C majorC
so I try to forget it anyway I can
CHORUS:
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G+G D MajorD C majorC C majorC E minorEm
Keep on rockin' in the free world
G+G D MajorD C majorC C majorC E minorEm
Keep on rockin' in the free world
G+G D MajorD C majorC C majorC E minorEm
Keep on rockin' in the free world
G+G D MajorD C majorC C majorC E minorEm
Keep on rockin' in the free world
A(7) x4 (interleave A augmentedA with A7A7)
E minorEm D MajorD C majorC 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 augmentedA with A7A7)
E minorEm D MajorD C majorC 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 MajorD and C majorC 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 augmentedA with A7A7)
E minorEm D MajorD C majorC x4
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Alternative guitar chords and tabs for Keep On Rockin In The Free World by Neil Young
