Old Laughing Lady chords by Neil Young

Chords with lyrics

[Archivers note: this is the version from 'Decade' - rcwoods]

THE OLD LAUGHING LADY

D MajorD            Em/DEm/D           Dmaj7Dmaj7 Em/DEm/D
Don't call pretty Peggy, she ...

D MajorD           Em/DEm/D      Dmaj7Dmaj7
Don't leave no message ...

G/DG/D                    D MajorD   Em/DEm/D
They say the "Old ...

   Dmaj7Dmaj7     Dm7Dm7        G+G
She don't keep time, she ....

D MajorD Gm7Gm7 Am7Am7 D MajorD

You can't have a cupboard if there ....

Dmaj7Dmaj7 Dm7Dm7 Dmaj7Dmaj7 Dm7Dm7 G/DG/D Dmaj7Dmaj7 Dm7Dm7 Dmaj7Dmaj7 Dm7Dm7 G/DG/D D MajorD

See the drunkyard of the village ....

D MajorD (D/Bb) D/C D MajorD

There's a fever on the freeway, .....
And there's a rumbling in the bedroom .....
        Dmaj7Dmaj7      Dm7Dm7           C(addD)
There's the "Old Laughing Lady", ....

OBS! The chords in this song is:

  D MajorD      Em/DEm/D   Dmaj7Dmaj7   Dm7Dm7    G+G     G/DG/D
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  The chords starts on fret:
   2      4     6     5     3     7


 lyrics: from the c-d sleeve
 chords: audio
 corrections/additions welcomed
 rcwoods|[email protected]
 added notes by: [email protected] (David W Smith)
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 Old Laughing Lady : Unplugged

 G+G  C majorC G+G

 G+G
 Don't call pretty ...

 C majorC           G+G
 She can't hear ...

 Don't leave ...

 C majorC       G+G
 Round her ...

       C majorC
 They say the old ...

       G+G
 Been here be...

   D MajorD        C majorC
 She don't ....

         G+G
 She don't ...

 G+G C majorC G+G

 G+G
 You can't ...

 C majorC         G+G
 If there ain't ...


 You got ...
 C majorC
 There's no time for ...

       C majorC      020010 A minorAm
 They say the old ...

     C majorC   D MajorD  G+G
 Dropped ...

   D MajorD        A minorAm
 And when she ...

      C majorC     G+G
 She leaves nothing ....


 verse: (without the run through A minorAm)

 G+G
 See the ...

 C majorC       G+G
 Fallin' ...


 He can't tell ...

 C majorC          G+G
 From the rest of ...

       C majorC      020010 A minorAm
 He loves his old ...

       C majorC      G+G   B minorBm
 Because the taste ....

     D MajorD
 But the laughin' ...

      A minorAm     C majorC  G+G
 Ain't the kind ...

 D MajorD A minorAm C majorC G+G


      G+G
 There's a fever on ...

 C majorC       G+G
 Blacks out ...


 There's a ...

   C majorC        G+G
 Just don't ...

      C majorC
 There's a rumblin' ....

    C majorC      G+G
 And a flashin' ....

 D MajorD
 There's the old ...

   C majorC         G+G
 Everything is ...

 D MajorD
 There's the old ...

   C majorC         G+G
 Everything is .....

 D MajorD A minorAm C majorC G+G x2

 notes: the quick change to C majorC and G+G at the end of many lines is omitted
 it occurs everywhere but 'if there ain't no wall / you got to move...'
 the run through from C majorC to A minorAm via the BB note is a familiar ny trick...

 added:
Neil embellishes the G+G chords by hammering on the
E MajorE note on the second fret of the D MajorD string with his
index finger.
I also believe that he plays some of his G+G chords
in the D MajorD chord shape at the 7th fret (G/DG/D).
Strum loosely with an easy feel.

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