Old Man - Neil Young

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This is one of my favourite Neil Young songs and is relatively easy to play, but 
mastering all the embellishments in Neil's chord picking (not shown here) is more tricky.

Intro
    
  E|----------
  B|---------6
  G|--5----0h5
  D|--0--0----
  A|----------
  E|----------

--0--0--|-----
--6--6--|-----
--5--5--|--5--
--------|--0--
--------|-----
--------|-----

-----0--0--0--
--6--6--6--6--
0h5--5--5--5--
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|------------0
|---------6--6
|--5----0h5--5
|--0--0-------
|-------------
|-------------

--0--|
--6--|
--5--|
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  E|-----0h2--
  B|----------
  G|--2-------
  D|--0-------
  A|----------
  E|----------
  (Repeat abov

        
------|--3p2-----0h2--0--0--|
3--3--|-------3-------3--3--|
2--2--|-------2-------2--2--|
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e)

(play as intro)
           
  Old man look

              
 at my life, I

              
'm a lot like 

         
you were.
           
  Old man look

              
 at my life , 

              
I'm a lot like

        
  you were

       
               

Verse
         
  Old man look

            
 at my life, t

              
wenty four and

             
 there's so mu

        
ch more.
             
  Live alone i

         
n a paradise t

             
hat makes me t

        
hink of two.
            
  Love lost, s

         
uch a cost, gi

              
ve me things t

    
hat don't get 

lost.
             
  Like a coin 

             
that won't get

             
 tossed rollin

              
g home to you

Bass run into chorus     

Chorus
 Intro       

             
  Old man take

              
 a look at my 

           
life I'm a lot

        
 like you.
             
  I need someo

              
ne to love me 

           
the whole day 

      
through.
             
  Ah, one look

              
 in my eyes an

           
d you can tell

        
 that's true.

Bridge to verse
           
           

2nd Verse
            
  Lullabies, l

          
ook in your ey

             
es, run around

     
 the same old 

town.
             
  Doesn't mean

         
 that much to 

             
me to mean tha

          
t much to you.
           
  I've been fi

          
rst and last, 

              
look at how th

       
e time goes pa

st.
             
  But I'm all 

             
alone at last,

             
 rolling home 

   
to you.

Run into chorus     

Repeat chorus 
Repeat intro
But on the last "you were" finish with...

        
you were.

            

    

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