Oh, Lonesome Me chords by Neil Young

Oh, Lonesome Me
Neil Young
After the Gold Rush

Richard Blackwell (rdb2010@shaw.ca)

I found a rendition of œOh, 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 (middle finger) in his open C chords, the A (again, middle finger) in his open F chords). Those oh-so-Neil-like embellishments are not reflected here.

Standard tuning
Capo on 4

Intro: C   F    C    F

C      F       C      F
Everybody's going out and having fun.
C       F        C       F
I'm a fool for staying home and having none.
 C       C7       F   Fm
I can't get over how she set me free.
Bb F      C
Oh, Oh, lonesome me.

C              F        C       F
There must be some way that I can lose these lonesome blues
C        F     C       F
Forget about the past, find somethin' new
   C        C7       F  Fm
I've thought of everything from A to Z,
Bb F      C
Oh, oh, lonesome me.

 Dm         G     Em      A7
I bet she's not like me. She's out and fancy free
F                  C
flirtin' with the boys with all her charms.
  Dm        G   Em        A7
But I still love her so and brother don't you know
  F         G        C
I'd welcome her right back here in my arms.

C              F        C       F
There must be some way that I can lose these lonesome blues
C        F     C       F
Forget about the past, find somethin' new
 C       C7       F   Fm
I can't get over how she set me free.
Bb F      C
Oh, Oh, lonesome me.

C   F    C    F
Am C