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 beginning)
Dm7/add2 (just noddle and hammer a D shape down at the 5th and then up to a normal D shape)
e|---------|---0--------|---------0--|------0--0--|------------|
B|---6-----|6--------6--|6--------6--|---6--6--6--|6--6-----6--|
G|5--0-h5--|5-----5-----|0-h5--5-(5)-|------------|0-h5--5--5--|
D|0--------|------0-----|------0-----|0-----------|------0-----|
A|---------|------------|------------|------------|------------|
E|---------|------------|------------|------------|------------|
D Dm7/add2
e|---0-------|--0-h2-|--------|3-p2-------|---0-------|----0--|
B|6--6--6--6-|-------|--------|-----------|---3-------|/6--6--|
G|5--5--5--0-|2------|2--2--2-|------2--2-|2-----2--0-|-------|
D|-----------|0------|------0-|------0----|0----------|-------|
A|-----------|-------|--------|-----------|-----------|-------|
E|-----------|-------|--------|-----------|-----------|-------|
e|---0--0--0--|------------|---0--0--0--|------------|---0-----0--|
B|---6--6--6--|6--6-----6--|---6--6--6--|6--6-----6--|6--6--6-----|
G|5-----------|0-h5--5--5--|5-----------|0-h5-----5--|5-----5-----|
D|0-----------|------------|------------|------0-----|------------|
A|------------|------------|------------|------------|------------|
E|------------|------------|------------|------------|------------|
D Dm7/add2
e|---0-h2--|---------|3-p2-----2--|---0---------|-0--0--0--0---|
B|---------|---------|3--------3--|3--3--3--/6--|(6)-----------|
G|2--------|2--2--2--|------2-----|2-----2------|(5)-----------|
D|0--------|------0--|------------|-------------|(0)-----------|
A|---------|---------|------------|-------------|--------------|
E|---------|---------|------------|-------------|--------------|
Old
e|--(0)-0--0-|-------0--0--|------0--0--|------0--0--|------0--0--|
B|6-(6)(6)---|----6-(6)(6)-|-----(6)(6)-|---6-(6)(6)-|-----(6)(6)-|
G|0-h5--5----|-------------|0-h5--------|------------|0-h5--------|
D|-----------|0------------|------------|0-----------|------------|
A|-----------|-------------|------------|------------|------------|
E|-----------|-------------|------------|------------|------------|
man look at my life I' m lot like
D Dm7/add2
e|---0-h2--|---------|3-p2--------|---0---------|-0--0--0--0---|
B|---------|3--3-----|3--------3--|---3-----/6--|(6)-----------|
G|---------|---------|------2-----|2-----2------|(5)-----------|
D|0--------|------0--|------------|-------------|(0)-----------|
A|---------|---------|------------|-------------|--------------|
E|---------|---------|------------|-------------|--------------|
you were Old
e|-------0--0--|-----0--0--|------0--0--|------0--0--|------0--0--|
B|------(6)(6)-|----(6)(6)-|-----(6)(6)-|-----(6)(6)-|-----(6)(6)-|
G|-0-h5--------|--5--------|0-h5--------|---5--------|0-h5--------|
D|(0)----------|0----------|------------|0-----------|------------|
A|-------------|-----------|------------|------------|------------|
E|-------------|-----------|------------|------------|------------|
man look at my life I' m lot like
D F C G
e|----------------|
B|----------------|
G|----------------|
D|----------------|
A|----------------|
E|----------------|
you were
[D F C F]
[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 won't get lost.
D C F G
Like a coin that won't get tossed rolling home to you
(base run from G into D of Chorus, notes: G A B C D)
[CHORUS]
D D Dsus4 D Am7 Em7
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
Ah, one look in my eyes and you can tell that's true.
[D F C G]
[D F C F]
[2nd VERSE]
D F C G
Lullabys, look in your eyes, run around the same old town.
D F C F
Doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.
D F C G
I've been first and last, look at how the time goes past.
D C F G
But I'm all alone at last, rolling home to you.
[repeat chorus]
D D Dsus4 D Am7 Em7
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
Ah, one look in my eyes and you can tell that's true.
go immediately into intro again but on the last "you were" finish as below:
[D F C G D]
you were.