Artist/Band: Young Neil Tabs
Song: Rockin' in the Free World Tab
(There's) [Dm]colors on the streets [C] [Bb]
Red [C]white and blue [C] [Bb]
People [Dm]shufflin' their feet, [C] [Bb]
People [Dm]sleepin' in their shoes [C] [Bb]
There's a [Dm]warning sign on the [C]road a[Bb]head
There's a [Dm]lot of people sayin' we'd be [C]better off [Bb]dead
Don't [Dm]feel like satan but I [C]am to [Bb]them
So I [Dm]try to forget it any [C]way I [Bb]can
chorus:
[F] Keep on [C]rockin' in the free world [Bb]x4
[F]-> [Gm] x4 to next verse
I see a girl in the night, with a baby in her hand
Under an old street light, near a garbage can
Now she's put the kid away and she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life and what she's done to it
That's one more kid that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love never get to be cool
chorus:
(additional verse in the electric version; track 12)
(electric is in different key)
We got a [Em]thousand points of light [D] [C]
For the [Em]homeless man [D] [C]
We got a [Em]kinder gentler [D]machine gun [C]hand [D] [C]
We got [Em]department stores and [D]toilet [C]paper
Got [Em]styrofoam boxes for the [D]ozone [C]layer
Got a [Em]man of the people says [D]keep hope a[C]live
Got [Em]fuel to burn, got [D]roads to [C]drive [D] [C]
Chorus:
[G] / / / [D] / / / [C] / / /
[G]->[Am]
Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero Part I) : Freedom : Neil Young
[G]/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Well the [Am]cop made the show-down [Am][F]
He was [Am]sure he was right [Am][F]
He had [Am]all of the low-down[Am][F]
From the [Am]bank-heist last night [Am][F]
[Dm]His best friend was the robber,[G][Dm]
[Dm]And his wife was a thief[G][Dm]
[Dm]All his children were killers, [G][Dm]
[Dm]He couldn't get no relief [G][F]
The bungalow was surrounded [G][F]
When a voice loud and clear [G][F]
Said "Come on out with your hands up [G][F]
Or we'll blow you out of here" [G][F]
There was a face in the [Am]window
The [F]t.v. cameras [Am]rolled
Then they cut to the [F]announcer,[Am]
And the [F]story was told [Am]
[F] [G] / / / / / /
[F] [G] / / / / / /
[F] [G] / / / / / / [Am]...
The artist looked at the producer, the producer sat back
He said "what we have got here is a perfect track
But we don't have a vocal and we don't have a song
If we could get these things accomplished nothing else could go wrong"
So he balanced the ashtray as he picked up the phone
And said "send me a songwriter who's drifted far from home
And make sure that he's hungry and make sure he's alone
Send me a cheeseburger and a new 'rolling stone'
Yeah
"There's still crime in the city", said the cop on the beat
"I don't know if i can stop it, I feel like meat on the street
They paint my car like a target, I take my orders from fools
Meanwhile some kid blows my head off well I play by their rules
That's why I'm doin' it my way I took the law in my own hand
So here i am in the alleyway a wad of cash in my pants
I get paid by a ten year old he says he looks up to me
There's still crime in the city but it's good to be free
Yeah
Well I come from a family that has a broken home
Sometimes I talk to daddy on the telephone
When he says that he loves me i know that he does
But I wish I could see him I wish I knew where he was
But that's the way all my friends are except maybe one or two
Wish I could see him this weekend wish I could walk in his shoes
But now I'm doing my own thing wometimes I'm good then I'm bad
Although my home has been broken it's the best home I ever had
Yeah
Well I keep getting younger my life's been funny that way
Before I ever learned to talk I forgot what to say
I sassed back to my mom I sassed back at my teacher
I got thrown out of bible school for sassing back at the preacher
Then I grew up to be a fireman put every fire in town
Put out anything smokin' but when I put the hose down
The judge sent me to prison gave me life without parole
Wish I never put the hose down wish I never got old
notes: _we_KNOW_ it's redundant to add in the additional [Am] chord,
but listen to the song to get what we mean - change from
Am to F (or Dm, G or whatever the chord change is) over the space of three
stokes e.g 002210 000010 x33211
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