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lyrics: from the c-d sleeve
chords: audio
all chords by
[email protected] and famoore, except where stated
corrections/additions welcomed
[email protected]
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Unplugged : Neil Young
Tracks:
@1 Old Laughing Lady
@2 Mr. Soul
@3 World on a String
@4 Pocahontas
@5 Stringman
@6 Like A Hurricane (by inges@??? from the decade file)
@7 The Needle and the Damage Done
@8 Helpless
@9 Harvest Moon
@10 Transformer Man
@11 Unknown Legend
@12 Look out for my Love
@13 Long may you run (by inges@??? from the decade file)
@14 From Hank to hendrix
@1
Old Laughing Lady : Unplugged
Don t call pretty Peggy,
She can t hear you no more
Don t leave no message
Round her back door
They say the old laughing lady
Been here before
She don t keep time
She don t count score
You can t have a cupboard
If there ain t no wall
You got to move
There s no time for you to stall
020010
They say the old laughing lady
Dropped by to call
And when she leaves
She leaves nothing at all
verse: (without the run through Am)
See the drunkard of the village
Fallin on his feet
He can t tell his ankle
From the rest of his feet
020010
He loves his old laughing lady
Because the taste is so sweet
But the laughin lady s loving
Ain t the kind he can keep
There s a fever on the freeway
Blacks out the night
There s a slippin on the stairway
Just don t feel right
There s a rumblin in the bedroom
And a flashin of light
There s the old laughing lady
Everything is all right
There s the old laughing lady
Everything is all right
notes: the quick change to C and G at the end on many lines is omitted
it occurs everywhere but if there ain t no wall / you got to move...
the run through from C to Am via the B note is a familiar ny trick...
@2
Mr. Soul : Unplugged
(Tune the guitar down to D)
Oh hello Mr. Soul I droped by to pick up a reason
For the thought that I d caught that my head is the event of the season
Why in crowds just a trace of my face should seem so pleasin
I ll cop out to the change but a stranger is putting the tease on
x2
I was down on a frown when a messenger brought me a letter
I was raised by the praise of a fan who said I upset her
Any girl in the world could have esaily known me better
She said You re stange, but don t change and I let her
In a while well the smile on my face turned to plaster
Stick around while the clown who was sick does the trick of disaster
For the race of my head and my face is moving much faster
Is it strange I should change? I don t know - why don t you ask her
Is it strange I should change? I don t know
Is it strange I should change? I don t know
C--- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
G--- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
D-0- -0- -0- -2- -3- -3- (3) -3- -2- -3- -2- -3- --- --- ---
@3
World on a String : Unplugged
( tuning)
x4
You know I lose, you know I win
You know I called for the state I m in
It s just a game you see me play
020003
Only real in the way that I feel from day to day
x2
Although the answer is not unknown
I m searchin , searchin , and how I ve grown
It s not all right, to say good-bye
And the world on a string doesn t mean a thing
No the world on a string doesn t mean a thing
020003
Only real in the way that I feel from day to day
run (on E shape):
C --- --- --- ---
B -2- -0- --- ---
D --- --- -3- -0-
@4
Pocahontas : Rust Never Sleeps
( tuning)
() (9) x4
Aurora Borealis
The icy sky at night
Paddles cut the water
In a long and hurried flight
From the white man to the fields of green
and the homeland we ve never seen
They killed us in our teepees
And they cut our women down
They might have left some babies
Cryin on the ground
But the firesticks and the wagons come
And the night falls on the settin sun
They massacred the buffalo
Kitty corner from the bank
The taxis run across my feet
And my eyes have turned to blanks
In my little box at the top of the stairs
With my indian rug and a pipe to share
(verse:)
I wish I was a trapper
I would give a thousand pelts
To sleep with Pocahontas
and find out how she felt
In the mornin on the fields of green
In the homeland we ve never seen
And maybe Marlon Brando
Will be there by the fire
We ll sit and talk of Hollywood
And the good things there for hire
And the Astradome and the first teepee
Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me
Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me
Pocahontas
@5
Stringman : Unplugged
x4
You can say the soul is gone
And the feelings just not there
Not like it was so long ago
On the empty page before you
You can fill in what you care
Try to make it good before you go
Take the simple case of the sarge
Who wouldn t go back to war
Because the hippies tore down every -
Thing that he was fighting for
Or the lovers on the blanket
The city turned to s
With memories of green kissed by the sun
You can say the soul is gone
And close another page
Just be sure that yours is not the one
And I m singing for the stringman
Who lately lost his wife
There is no dearer friend of mine
That I know in this life
On his shoulder is a violin
For his head where chaos reigns
But his heart can t find a simple way
To live with all those things
All those things
He s a stringman
stringman
All those strings to pull
x4
notes: Dm/G 300231
@6
Like A Hurricane : Unplugged
Once I thought I saw you in a crowded, hazy bar,
Dancing on the light from star to star.
Far across the moon beams, I know that s who you are.
I saw your brown eyes turning once to fire.
chorus:
You are like a hurricane: there s calm in your eye.
And I m getting blown away.
There s somewhere safer where the feelings stay.
I wanna love you but I m getting blown away.
I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream,
And you could have been anyone to me.
Before that moment you touched my lips, that
Perfect feeling when time just slips
Away between us and our foggy trips.
chorus:
chorus:
notes:
from the decade file by inges@??? pulled off alt.guitar.tab
chords as on the everybody knows this is nowhere album.
@7
The Needle and the Damage Done : Unplugged
DaddC +
DaddC
I caught you knocking at my cellar door,
+
I love you baby can I have some more
Oh oh the damage done
I hit the city and I lost my van
I watched the needle take another man
Gone, gone, the damage done
verse:
I sing the song because I love the man
I know that some of you don t understand
Milk blood to keep from running out
I ve seen the needle and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
Every junky s like a setting sun
I ve seen the needle and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
Every junky s like a setting sun
1/2 verse (just short of the C chord)
notes:
DaddC: x30232
: x20030
+: x10333
The Needle and the Damage Done : Unplugged
E --- -2- --- -0- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- -0- --- --- --- ---
B --- --- --- --- --- -3- --- -3- --- -3- --- --- --- -3- --- -3-
G --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
D -0- --- -0- --- -0- --- -0- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
A --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- -3- --- -3- --- -3- --- -3- ---
E --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
E --- --- --- -0- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- -0- --- --- --- ---
B --- -3- --- --- --- -3- --- -3- --- -3- --- --- --- -3- --- -0-
G --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
D --- --- -0- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- -0- --- --- --- --- ---
A -2- --- --- --- -2- --- -2- --- -1- --- --- --- -1- --- -1- ---
E --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
note: the very last note is an open b, as the chord changes to a C.
E --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
B --- -1- --- -1- --- -1- --- -1- --- -1- --- -1- --- -1- --- -1-
G --- --- --- --- -0- --- -2- --- 2H3 --- -2- --- -0- --- --- ---
D --- --- 0H2 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- -3- ---
A -3- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
E --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
E --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
B --- -0- --- -0- --- -0- --- -0- --- -0- --- -0- --- -0- --- ---
G -2- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- -1- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
A --- --- -2- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- -2- --- --- --- --- ---
D --- --- --- --- -2- --- -0- --- --- --- --- --- -2- --- -0- ---
E --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
I caught you knocking at my cellar door,
I love you baby can i have some more
Oh-oh the damage done
I hit the city and i lost my van
I watched the needle take another man
Gone, gone, the damage done
I sing the song because i love the man
I know that some of you don t understand
Milk blood to keep from running out
I ve seen the needle and the damage down
A little part of it in everyone
Every junky s like a setting sun
I ve seen the needle and the damage down
A little part of it in everyone
Every junky s like a setting sun
notes: as on the harvest album.
this is only a basic outlay - there are lots of variations you can do:
hammering on or not, using the 5th string (the root of the chord) or the
open 4th string (D) as the bass note, or to alternate. eg
D --- --- -0- --- -0- --- -0- --- --- --- -0- --- -0- --- -0- ---
A -2- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- -1- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
E --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
experiment! enjoy!
tabbed by rcwoods and
[email protected], with additional corrections
by
[email protected]. (Spring 1992)
@8
Helpless : Unplugged
x6
There is a town in north Ontario,
With dream comfort memory to spare,
And in my mind I still need a place to go,
All my changes were there,
Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes. Leave us...
Helpless, helpless, helpless
Baby can you hear me now?
The chains are locked and tied across the door,
Baby, sing with me somehow.
x4
Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes. leave us...
Helpless, helpless, helpless x2
x2
Helpless, helpless, helpless
@9
Harvest Moon : Unplugged
intro: (see below) (verse begins on harmonics)
Come a little bit closer, hear what I have to say
Just like children sleepin we could dream this night away.
But there s a full moon rising, let s go dancing in the light.
We know where the music s playing, lets go out and feel the night.
chorus:
Because I m still in love with you, I wanna see you dance again,
Because I m still in love with you, on this harvest moon.
intro:
When we were strangers I watched you from afar
When we were lovers I loved you with all my heart
But now it s gettin late and the moon is climbin high
I want to celebrate, see it shinin in your eye
chorus:
half verse
chorus:
intro:
notes: basic chords by rcwoods and famoore.
the following riffs (by
[email protected]) are very easy to include:
(we leave out the DM7)... call this low
Dmaj7 Bm7 (with bass)
---2--2--2--2--2--2--x--2----
---3--3--3--3--3--2--2--3----
---2--2--2--2--3--2--2--2----
---0--0--0--0--0--0--2--4----
---------------------0--0----
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call this high
----0---0---0------9---9---9--
---10--12--12-----10--10--10--
---11--11--11-----11--11--11--
0-----------------------------
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also suggested is this one ...
[email protected] :
--5-5--------7-7--------9--9---|
--7-7--------5-5--------10-10--|
--7-7--------7-7--------9--9---|
--0-0--------0-0--------0--0---|
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the harmonics are: call this H
Harmonics*******|
e-12---------
B----12------
G--------12--
D---------12-
A-----------7
E------------
so from the top...
intro: high x4,
H
come a little bit closer H
here what i have to say low x2, H
just like children sleeping H
we could dream this night away low x2
but there s a full moon rising let s go dancin in the light high x2
we know where the music s playin let s go out and feel the night high x2
etc
@10
lyrics: from the c-d sleeve
chords: audio
rcwoods|
[email protected]
corrections by
[email protected]
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Transformer Man : Unplugged
Transformer man
Transformer man
You run the show
Remote control
Dm7
Direct the action with the
Fm7
Push of a botton. You re a
Transformer man
Power in your hand
Transformer man
Fm7
Transformer man
Transformer Man
Transformer Man
Sooner or later you ll have to see
The cause and effect
So many things still left to do
But we haven t made it yet
Every morning when I lookin your eyes
I feel electrified by you
Oh yeah
Transformer man
Transformer man
Transformer man
Still in comand
Your eyes are shining on a
Beam through the galaxy of love
Transformer man
Transformer man
Unlock the secrets; let us
Throw off the chains that keep you down
Transformer man
Transformer man
Sooner or later you ll have to see
The cause and effect
So many things still left to do
But we haven t made it yet
Every morning when I look in your eyes
I feel electrified by you
Transformer man
Transformer man
Transformer man
Transformer man
@11
Unknown Legend : Harvest Moon : Neil Young
intro:
Strum G chord Strum...
-----------3-------------------------3------------------3--
-----------0-------------------------0------------------0--
-----------0-------------------------0------------------0--
--------0--0---------------------0---0---------------0--0--
-2--3------2---------------2--3------2---------2--3-----2--
-----------3-------------------------3------------------3--
Strum C chord Strum G chord
-----------0----------------------------3
-----------1----------------------------0
-----------0----------------------------0
-----------2--------------------0-------0
-3--2------3----------------------------2
-------0---0--------------0--3----------3
She used to work in a diner, never saw a woman look finer
I used to order just to see her float across the floor.
She grew up in a small town, never put her roots down.
Daddy kept movin so she did too.
chorus:
Somewhere on a desert highway, she rides a Harley Davidson
Her long blonde hair flyin in the wind.
She s been runnin half of her life.
The chrome and steel she rides,
Collidin with the very air she breathes, the air she breathes.
intro:
You know it ain t easy, you got to hold on.
She was an unknown legend in her time.
Now whe s dressin two kids, lookin for that magic kiss.
She gets that far away look in her eyes.
chorus:
intro:
chorus:
notes:
as on the harvest moon album (with extra chorus at end)
tab at beginning by
[email protected] (James L. Zito)
@12
Look out for my love : Unplugged
x4
There s a lot to learn
For wastin time
There s a heart that burns
There s an open mind
Look out for my love (x4)
Evii
You own it
Evii
You own it now
Evii
You own it
There s a weight on you
But you can t feel it
Livin like I do
It s hard to see it
Was I hurt too bad?
Can I show you daylight?
How could I be sad
When I know that you might
Look out for my love (x4)
Look out for my love
(7)
It s in your neighbourhood
I know things are gonna change
But I can t say good or bad
Silver wings of morning
Shining in the grey day
While the ice is forming
On a lonely runway
Hydraulic wipers pumping
Till the window glistens
Something saying something
But no one seems to listen
Men wth walkie-talkies
Men with flash-lights waving
Up upon the tower
Time reads daylight savings
I m home again to you babe
You know it makes me wonder
Sittin in the quiet slipstream
In the thunder
Look out for my love (x10)
Bm G ad infinitum ... :-)
notes:
as on the comes a time album
the riffs are very simple to work out...
@13
Long May You Run : Unplugged
(intro)verse:
A/D
We ve been through some things together,
With trunks of memories still to come.
A/D
We found things to do in stormy weather.
Long may you run.
chorus:
A/D
Long may you run, long may you run,
Although these changes have come.
A/D
With your chrome heart shinin
in the sun, long may you run.
Well it was back in Blind River in nineteen sixtytwo
When I last saw you alive.
But we missed that ship on the long decline.
Long may you run.
chorus:
verse:
Maybe the Beach Boys have got you now
With those waves singin Caroline.
Rollin down that empty ocean road,
Get into the surf on time.
chorus:
verse:
chorus:
notes:
A/D x00220
x00233
from the decade file by inges@??? pulled of alt.guitar.tab
as on the long may you run album, with extra chorus, and an extra harp solo
in place of the guitar solo.
@14
From Hank to Hendrix : Unplugged
From Hank to Hendrix, I walked these streets with you.
Here I am with this old guitar, doing what I do.
I always expected, that you would see me through.
I never believed in much, but I believed in you.
chorus:
Can we get it together, can we still stand side by side.
Can we make it last, like a musical ride?
From Marilyn to Madonna, I always loved your smile,
Now we re headed for the big divorce, California style.
I found myself singin like a long lost friend
The same thing that makes you live can kill you in the end.
chorus:
Sometimes its distorted not clear to you.
Sometimes the beauty of love just comes ringin through.
New glass in the window, new leaf on the tree,
new distance between us you and me.
chorus:
notes:
use G 320033 or Giii rather than a straight open G?
as on the harvest moon album