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Song title:   Old Man
Album:        Harvest

Words and Music by Neil Young
Copyright © 1972 Reprise Records
Published by ???

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
The Dm9 here is a Dsus2 shape moved up 3 frets. You're changing between this
and a standard open D with some hammering and pulling in the NY style.
Listen to the song and try it out. You're sure to sound good!


INTRO:
Dm9                                      D
Old man, look at my life, I'm a lot like you were
Dm9                                      D        F  C  G  D
Old man, look at my life, I'm a lot like you were

F  C  F  D


VERSE:
D        F               C                         G
Old man, look at my life,  twenty-four and there's so much more
D               F             C                 F 
Live alone in a paradise that makes me think of two  
D          F            C                   G 
Love lost, such a cost, give me things that don't get lost  
D                C                 F               G 
Like a coin that won't get tossed, rolling home to you


D  Am7  Em7 
                          

REFRAIN:
D              Am7                    Em7 
Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you  
D                 Am7         Em7 
I need someone to love me the whole day through  
D                                   Am7         Em7 
Oh, one look in my eyes and you can tell that's true

 
[play the VERSE chords:  D  F  C  G  and  D  F  C  F] 
                                                                    

VERSE:
Lullabies, look in your eyes, run around the same old town  
Doesn't mean that much to me - to mean that much to you  
I've been first and last, look at how the time goes past  
But I'm all alone at last, rolling home to you


D  Am7  Em7 
                          

[repeat REFRAIN]

 
[play the VERSE chords:  D  F  C  G  and  D  F  C  F  D]


OUTRO:
Dm9                                     D 
Old man look at my life, I'm a lot like you were
Dm9                                     D        F  C  G  D
Old man look at my life, I'm a lot like you were



CHORDS:
Dm9       xx0560
D         xx0232
Dsus4     xx0233
Am7       x02010
Em7       022030