Powderfinger  Neil Young

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 Powderfinger : Rust Never Sleeps


 [G]Look out, Ma, there's a [C]white boat comin' up the [G]river [C]  [G]


 With a [C]big red beacon and a flag and a man on the [G]rail [C]  [G]


 I think you'ld [C]better call John


 'cause it don't look like they're here to de[Bm]liver the [C]mail


 And it's [Bm7]less than a mile a[CM7]way


 I [Bm7]hope they hope they didn't come to [CM7]stay


 It's got [Bm7]numbers on the side and a [CM7]gun


        and it's makin[D]' big waves


 [G]  [C]  [G]  [C]  [G]             Daddy's gone and my brother's out huntin' in the mountains


 Big John's been drinkin' since the river took Emmy Lou


 So the powers that be left me here to do the thinkin'


 And I just turned twenty-two


 I was wonderin' what to do


 And the closer they got


 The more those feelin's grew


 inter-verse:


 [G]  [C]  [G]  [C]  [G]             [G]  [C]  [G]  [C]  [G]             [G]  [C]  [G]  [C]  [G]             [C]  [Bm]   [C]          [Bm7]    [CM7]           [Bm7]    [CM7]           [Bm7]    [CM7]    [D]             [G]  [C]  [G]  [C]  [G]   Daddy's rifle in my hand felt reassurin;


 He told me "Red means run, son, and numbers add up to nothin'"


 When the first shot hit the dock I saw it comin'


 Raised my rifle to my eye


 Never stopped to wonder why


 Then I saw black and my face splashed in the sky


 inter-verse


 Shelter me from the powder and the finger


 Cover me with the one that pulled the trigger


 Just think of me as one you never figured


 Would fade away so young


 With so much left undone


 Remember me to my love, I know I'll miss her


   [G]  [C]  [G]  [C]  [G]   notes:


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