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unplugged album Neil Young
#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # lyrics: from the c-d sleeve chords: audio all chords by rcwoods@alf2.tcd.ie and famoore, except where stated corrections/additions welcomed rcwoods@alf2.tcd.ie -------------- 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 G C G G Don't call pretty Peggy, C G She can't hear you no more Don't leave no message C G Round her back door C They say the old laughing lady G Been here before D C She don't keep time G She don't count score G C G G You can't have a cupboard C G If there ain't no wall You got to move C There's no time for you to stall C 020010 Am They say the old laughing lady C D G Dropped by to call D Am And when she leaves C G She leaves nothing at all verse: (without the run through Am) G See the drunkard of the village C G Fallin' on his feet He can't tell his ankle C G From the rest of his feet C 020010 Am He loves his old laughing lady C G Bm Because the taste is so sweet D But the laughin' lady's loving Am C G Ain't the kind he can keep D Am C G G There's a fever on the freeway C G Blacks out the night There's a slippin' on the stairway C G Just don't feel right C There's a rumblin' in the bedroom C G And a flashin' of light D There's the old laughing lady C G Everything is all right D There's the old laughing lady C G Everything is all right D Am C G 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) E E E E E Oh hello Mr. Soul I droped by to pick up a reason E For the thought that I'd caught that my head is the event of the season A E Why in crowds just a trace of my face should seem so pleasin' D A E I'll cop out to the change but a stranger is putting the tease on D G D 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 D 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 D A Is it strange I should change? I don't know D A 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 (D tuning) E x4 E You know I lose, you know I win A You know I called for the state I'm in E It's just a game you see me play G D A 020003 Only real in the way that I feel from day to day E 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 E G D G D E G No the world on a string doesn't mean a thing G D E 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 (D tuning) D (Dsus4) (9) x4 D Aurora Borealis D The icy sky at night Em Paddles cut the water D In a long and hurried flight A C G D From the white man to the fields of green A C G D and the homeland we've never seen D Em D 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 D D Em D A C G D 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 D D Em D A C G D A C G D (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 D 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 A C G D Pocahontas @5 Stringman : Unplugged F C Bb C x4 F You can say the soul is gone Dm/G And the feelings just not there Bb C F C Bb C Not like it was so long ago F On the empty page before you Dm/G You can fill in what you care Bb C F C Bb C 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 whores 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 F C Bb C Bb F And I'm singing for the stringman Bb F Who lately lost his wife Bb Dm There is no dearer friend of mine C F 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 F C Bb C All those things F C Bb C He's a stringman F C Bb C A stringman F C Bb C F All those strings to pull F C Bb C x4 notes: Dm/G 300231 @6 Like A Hurricane : Unplugged Am G F Em Am G Once I thought I saw you in a crowded, hazy bar, F Em G Dancing on the light from star to star. Am G Far across the moon beams, I know that's who you are. F Em G I saw your brown eyes turning once to fire. chorus: C G F G C G F G You are like a hurricane: there's calm in your eye. C G F G And I'm getting blown away. F There's somewhere safer where the feelings stay. Am G F Em G 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 D DaddC Em7 Gm+Bb C F Esus4 E D DaddC I caught you knocking at my cellar door, Em7 Gm+Bb I love you baby can I have some more C F Esus4 E 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 Em7: x20030 Gm+Bb: 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 famoore@unix1.tcd.ie, with additional corrections by bert@cs.vu.nl. (Spring 1992) @8 Helpless : Unplugged C G F x6 C G F There is a town in north Ontario, C G F With dream comfort memory to spare, C G F And in my mind I still need a place to go, C G F 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... C G F Helpless, helpless, helpless C G F Baby can you hear me now? C G F The chains are locked and tied across the door, C G F Baby, sing with me somehow. C G F 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 C G F x2 Helpless, helpless, helpless @9 Harvest Moon : Unplugged intro: (see below) (verse begins on harmonics) G D Come a little bit closer, hear what I have to say G D Just like children sleepin' we could dream this night away. G D But there's a full moon rising, let's go dancing in the light. G D We know where the music's playing, lets go out and feel the night. chorus: G A Em Because I'm still in love with you, I wanna see you dance again, A D 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 pfein@remus.rutgers.edu) are very easy to include: (we leave out the DM7)... call this 'low ' D Dmaj7 A Bm7 (with A 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---- ----------------------------- call this 'high' D ----0---0---0------9---9---9-- ---10--12--12-----10--10--10-- ---11--11--11-----11--11--11-- 0----------------------------- ------------------------------ ------------------------------ also suggested is this one ... whc2993@ritvax.isc.rit.edu : --5-5--------7-7--------9--9---| --7-7--------5-5--------10-10--| --7-7--------7-7--------9--9---| --0-0--------0-0--------0--0---| -------------------------------| -------------------------------| 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|famoore@unix1.tcd.ie corrections by hsteinke@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU -------------- Transformer Man : Unplugged C Transformer man C Transformer man C You run the show Am Remote control Dm7 Direct the action with the Fm7 Push of a botton. You're a C Transformer man Am Power in your hand F Transformer man Fm7 Transformer man C Transformer Man C Transformer Man E Sooner or later you'll have to see F G The cause and effect E So many things still left to do F G But we haven't made it yet E Every morning when I lookin your eyes F E I feel electrified by you G 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 G She used to work in a diner, never saw a woman look finer C I used to order just to see her float across the floor. C G C G She grew up in a small town, never put her roots down. C Daddy kept movin so she did too. chorus: C G C G Somewhere on a desert highway, she rides a Harley Davidson C Her long blonde hair flyin'&nbs
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