Neil Young – Powderfinger chords

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Powderfinger  chords rare acoustic version 
Neil Young  1975 (This version is from the unreleased Chrome Dreams Album and the 
unreleased single; please note this is in the key of E, not G as in the live 
versions and Rust Never Sleeps)

E *

E Look out, Mama,
          Athere's a white boat
              E    A/Ecomin' up the river
       AWith a big red beacon,

and a flag,
                 E   A/Eand a man on the rail
              AI think you'd better call John,
          C#m'Cause it don't
         
look like they're here
     E          Ato deliver, the mail
         G#m               AAnd it's less than a mile away
  G#m                      AI hope they didn't come to stay
         G#mIt's got numbers on the side
      C#mand a gun
                    EAnd it's makin' big waves.

E  A/E

EDaddy's gone,
                 Amy brother's out hunting
       E        A/Ein the mountains
    ABig John's been drinking
                          E   A/Esince the river took Emmy-Lou
       ASo the powers that be
     C#mleft me here
          Eto do the thinkin'
      G#m                AAnd I just turned twenty-two
      G#m               AI was wonderin' what to do
        G#mAnd the closer they got,
    C#m                 EThe more those feelings grew.

E  A/E

E                   ADaddy's rifle in my hand
         E     A/Efelt reassurin'

He said,
ARed means run, son,
                  E      A/Enumbers add up to nothin'
             ABut when the first shot
        C#m            Ehit the docks I saw it comin'
          G#m         ARaised my rifle to my eye
      G#m               ANever stopped to wonder why.
     G#mThen I saw black,
       C#m                  EAnd my face splashed in the sky.

E  A/E

E                   AShelter me from the powder
        E     A/Eand the finger
ACover me with the thought
                E      A/Ethat pulled the trigger
AThink of me
   C#m             Eas one you'd never figured
      G#m          AWould fade away so young
     G#m            AWith so much left undone
  G#m             C#mRemember me to my love,
            EI know I'll miss her. 

E  A/E

* Alternate:

Capo II

A   = G
E   = D
C#m = Bm
G#m = F#m


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