Old Man - Neil Young

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Old Man by Neil Young from the album Harvest

Originally tabbed by: Malc Brookes & Nicolas Menard and submitted to
the Neil Young Songbook Project at www.SongX.se - check it out !

Some notes are more or less muted (listen to the track).

 [INTRO](and b
   Dm7/add2 (j
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B|---6-----|6-
G|5--0-h5--|5-
D|0--------|--
A|---------|--
E|---------|--

eginning)
ust noddle and
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 hammer a D sh
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ape down at th
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e 5th and then up to a normal D shape)
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dd2
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Old

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  man        l

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ook at my     

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life         I

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'       m   lo

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t    like

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B|---------|3-
G|---------|--
D|0--------|--
A|---------|--
E|---------|--
  you        w

              
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ere           

              
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dd2
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Old

e|-------0--0-
B|------(6)(6)
G|-0-h5-------
D|(0)---------
A|------------
E|------------
  man         

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-|----(6)(6)-|
-|--5--------|
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look at my    

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life         I

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----(6)(6)-|--
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'       m   lo

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---(6)(6)-|
h5--------|
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t    like

             
e|------------
B|------------
G|------------
D|------------
A|------------
E|------------
  you were

        
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[D       F       C       F]

[VERSE]
            
Old man look a

             
t my life, twe

              
nty four and t

              
here's so much

 
 more.
             
Live alone in 

             
a paradise tha

             
t makes me thi

      
nk of two.
            
Love lost, suc

             
h a cost, give

              
 me things tha

            
t won't get lo

st.
             
Like a coin th

             
at won't get t

             
ossed rolling 

        
home to you

(base run from G into D of Chorus, notes: G A B C D)

[CHORUS]
               
             
Old man take a

              
 look at my li

           
fe I'm a lot l

    
ike you.
             
I need someone

              
 to love me th

         
e whole day th


rough.
             
Ah, one look i

              
n my eyes and 

           
you can tell t

      
hat's true.

[D   F   C   G]
[D   F   C   F]

[2nd VERSE]
            
Lullabys, look

              
 in your eyes,

             
 run around th

           
e same old tow

n.
             
Doesn't mean t

             
hat much to me

             
 to mean that 

        
much to you.
            
I've been firs

             
t and last, lo

              
ok at how the 

          
time goes past

.
            
But I'm all al

             
one at last, r

              
olling home to

 
 you.

[repeat chorus]
               
             
Old man take a

              
 look at my li

           
fe I'm a lot l

    
ike you.
             
I need someone

              
 to love me th

         
e whole day th


rough.
             
Ah, one look i

              
n my eyes and 

           
you can tell t

      
hat's true.

go immediately into intro again but on the last "you were" finish as below:

[           
you were.

            

 

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