Oh, Lonesome Me chords by Neil Young

Chords with lyrics

Oh, Lonesome Me
Neil Young
After the Gold Rush

Richard Blackwell ([email protected])

I found a rendition of “Oh, Lonesome Me” by Neil Young on YouTube. I capoed up four and tried playing along for a while. This is what came out.

Neil seems to like to pull-off/hammer-on notes in his chords (e.g., in this piece the E MajorE (middle finger) in his open C majorC chords, the A augmentedA (again, middle finger) in his open FF chords). Those oh-so-Neil-like embellishments are not reflected here.

Standard tuning
Capo on 4

Intro: C majorC   FF    C majorC    FF

C majorC      FF       C majorC      FF
Everybody's going out and having fun.
C majorC       FF        C majorC       FF
I'm a fool for staying home and having none.
 C majorC       C7C7       FF   F minorFm
I can't get over how she set me free.
Bb majorBb FF      C majorC
Oh, Oh, lonesome me.

C majorC              FF        C majorC       FF
There must be some way that I can lose these lonesome blues
C majorC        FF     C majorC       FF
Forget about the past, find somethin’ new
   C majorC        C7C7       FF  F minorFm
I've thought of everything from A augmentedA to Z,
Bb majorBb FF      C majorC
Oh, oh, lonesome me.

 DmDm         G+G     E minorEm      A7A7
I bet she's not like me. She's out and fancy free
FF                  C majorC
flirtin’ with the boys with all her charms.
  DmDm        G+G   E minorEm        A7A7
But I still love her so and brother don't you know
  FF         G+G        C majorC
I'd welcome her right back here in my arms.

C majorC              FF        C majorC       FF
There must be some way that I can lose these lonesome blues
C majorC        FF     C majorC       FF
Forget about the past, find somethin’ new
 C majorC       C7C7       FF   F minorFm
I can't get over how she set me free.
Bb majorBb FF      C majorC
Oh, Oh, lonesome me.

C majorC   FF    C majorC    FF
A minorAm C majorC