Neil Young

Voici la version d’Old Man de Neil Young, jouée au Massey Hall en 1971 :

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Intro:
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  Old man look at my life, I'm a lot like

  D
  you were.

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  Old man look at my life I'm a lot like

  D        F      C     G
  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:
  Lullabys, 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 alone at last, rolling home to you.

(repeat chorus and go immediately into intro again
but on the last "you were" finish as below...)

D        F      C     G     D
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Dans le film Heart of Gold, Neil Young présente la chanson comme ceci :

About that time when I wrote (Heart of Gold), and I was touring, I had also — just, you know, being a rich hippie for the first time — I had purchased a ranch, and I still live there today.

And there was a couple living on it that were the caretakers, an old gentleman named Louis Avila and his wife Clara. And there was this old blue Jeep there, and Louis took me for a ride in this blue Jeep.

He gets me up there on the top side of the place, and there’s this lake up there that fed all the pastures, and he says, “Well, tell me, how does a young man like yourself have enough money to buy a place like this?”

And I said, “Well, just lucky, Louie, just real lucky.” And he said, “Well, that’s the darndest thing I ever heard.” And I wrote this song for him.

Neil Young