Grandpas Interview chords by Neil Young

Double Dropped D tuning

 Cadd9          G7sus4           Am        Cadd2
D - 0       0       0       0

B - 3       1       1       1
G - 0       0       2       0
D - 2       3       2       2
A - 3       3       0       3
D - X       3       x       X

INTRO: (x3)
Cadd9  / Am
G7sus4 / Cadd2

 Cadd9                      Am
Grandpa, here's your coffee,

 Cadd9                           Am
Said Edith, as she filled his cup.

 Cadd9                    Am
Nobody'll find you here,

 G7sus4                           Cadd2
And Earl is glad you guys showed up.


 Cadd9                    Am
The way things are downtown,

 Cadd9                            Am
You might have to stay for a while,

 Cadd9                                      Am
There was a helicopter hovering over your house

 G7sus4                                Cadd2
When I talked to your neighbor Kyle.


 Cadd9                                 Am
Who the hell do they think they are,

 Cadd9                        Am
Invading our home like that?

 Cadd9                               Am
Grandma and I had to leave so fast,

 G7sus4                            Cadd2
We couldn't even catch the cat.


 Cadd9                                    Am
The helicopter scared the shit out of him,

 Cadd9                          Am
And it took off down the trail,

 Cadd9                        Am
Down past the railroad track,

 G7sus4                    Cadd2
Towards the county jail.


BRIDGE 1:
Cadd9 / Am (x3)
G7sus4 / Cadd2


 Cadd9                            Am
Jed, you really screwed up now!

 Cadd9                              Am
What did you have to do that for?

 Cadd9                              Am
Everybody wants to hang your ass,

 G7sus4                        Cadd2
And here's a note from Lenore.


 Cadd9                      Am
Sun touched the cold steel bars

 Cadd9                         Am
As she pushed the paper in.

 Cadd9                         Am
Jed took it up and read it

 G7sus4                        Cadd2
And he couldn't hide a grin.


 Cadd9                  Am
Outside the jail window

 Cadd9                    Am
A crow flew across the sky,

 Cadd9                                Am
Completely disappearing behind each bar,

 G7sus4                        Cadd2
Then a helicopter flew by.


 Cadd9                          Am
Say hi to Earl and Edith.

 Cadd9                          Am
Tell 'em I'm doing fine.

 Cadd9                          Am
Tell 'em you're ready to leave home now,

 G7sus4                     Cadd2
They should cut the line.


 Cadd9                          Am
Can Grandma come and see me?

 Cadd9                     Am
I got a new song to sing

 Cadd9                                 Am
It's longer than all the others combined

 G7sus4                       Cadd2
And it doesn't mean a thing.


BRIDGE 2: (x2)
Cadd9  / Am
G7sus4 / Cadd2


 Cadd9                 Am
The noise was unfamiliar,

 Cadd9                  Am
Walkie-talkies squelled,

 Cadd9                 Am
Generators were running,

 G7sus4                    Cadd2
Vans parked in the field.


 Cadd9                 Am
TV crews and cameras,

 Cadd9                                  Am
They wanted to interview Grandpa on the porch.

 Cadd9                                   Am
They came through the gate and up on the lawn

 G7sus4                       Cadd2
Knocking down Edith's Tiki Torch.


 Cadd9                      Am
And Grandpa saw them there,

 Cadd9                          Am
Looking through the venetian blind.

 Cadd9                             Am
Those people don't have any respect,

 G7sus4                          Cadd2
So they won't get any of mine.


 Cadd9                          Am
I ain't wanna talk about Jed.

 Cadd9                                 Am
I don't watch channel 2 or 6 or 9.

 Cadd9                                Am
I don't have time to talk that fast,

 G7sus4                 Cadd2
And it ain't my crime.


 Cadd9                            Am
It ain't an honor to be on TV

 Cadd9                       Am
And it ain't a duty either.

 Cadd9                           Am
The only good thing about TV

 G7sus4                            Cadd2
Is shows like 'Leave it to Beaver'.


 Cadd9                     Am
Shows with love and affection,

 Cadd9                   Am
Like Mama used to say.

 Cadd9                   Am
A little Mayberry living

 G7sus4                 Cadd2
Could go a long way.


 Cadd9                                  Am
He took Earl's gun down from the closet,

 Cadd9                        Am
Loaded up both barrels.

 Cadd9                                 Am
Went out on the porch and fired 'em off,

 G7sus4                             Cadd2
And up walked a woman named Carol.


 Cadd9                        Am
Susan Carol from Early Magazine,

 Cadd9                         Am
I got some questions to ask.

 Cadd9                                      Am
Well you can stick 'em where the sun don't shine!

 G7sus4                     Cadd2
Grandpa said with a gasp.


 Cadd9                                     Am
Then he fell face first and let out a sigh,

 Cadd9                   Am
Edith came out in shock.

 Cadd9                                         Am
Grandpa was whispering to her from down on the floor,

 G7sus4                                 Cadd2
He looked like he was trying to talk.


 Cadd9                     Am
That guy just keeps singin'!

 Cadd9                       Am
Can somebody shut him up?

 Cadd9                           Am
I don't know for the life of me

 G7sus4                             Cadd2
Where he comes up with this stuff.


BRIDGE 3: (x3)
Cadd9 / Am
G7sus4 / Cadd2

 Cadd9                         Am
They laid his head on a newspaper

 Cadd9                                     Am
With a picture of Carmichael on the front page,

 Cadd9                               Am
Posing with the little league baseball team,

 G7sus4                              Cadd2
And a seedy shot of Jed with a motorcycle.


 Cadd9                     Am
Grandpa died like a hero,

 Cadd9                         Am
Fighting for freedom of silence,

 Cadd9                    Am
Trying to stop the media,

 G7sus4                  Cadd2
Trying to be anonymous.


BRIDGE 4: (x2)
Cadd9  / Am
G7sus4 / Cadd2

SOLO

 Cadd9                       Am
Share your loving and you live so long

 Cadd9                       Am
Share your loving and you live so long

 Cadd9                       Am
Share your loving and you live so long

 G7sus4                       Cadd2
Live so long