Neil Young – Powderfinger (Ukulele)

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#-------------------------------PLEASE NOTE-------------------------------------# # This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # # song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------# 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) A# *
A# 
Look out, Mama,

          C
there's a white boat

              A#    C/G
comin' up the river

       C
With a big red beacon,
and a flag,
                 A#   C/G
and a man on the rail

              C
I think you'd better call John,

          Em
'Cause it don't
look like they're here
     A#          C
to deliver, the mail

         Dm               C
And it's less than a mile away

  Dm                      C
I hope they didn't come to stay

         Dm
It's got numbers on the side

      Em
and a gun

                    F
And it's makin' big waves.
A# C/G
A#
Daddy's gone,

                 C
my brother's out hunting

       A#        C/G
in the mountains

    C
Big John's been drinking

                          A#   C/G
since the river took Emmy-Lou

       C
So the powers that be

     Em
left me here

          A#
to do the thinkin'

      Dm                C
And I just turned twenty-two

      Dm               C
I was wonderin' what to do

        Dm
And the closer they got,

    Em                 F
The more those feelings grew.
A# C/G
A#                   C
Daddy's rifle in my hand

         A#     C/G
felt reassurin'
He said,
C
Red means run, son,

                  A#      C/G
numbers add up to nothin'

             C
But when the first shot

        Em            A#
hit the docks I saw it comin'

          Dm         C
Raised my rifle to my eye

      Dm               C
Never stopped to wonder why.

     Dm
Then I saw black,

       Em                  F
And my face splashed in the sky.
A# C/G
A#                   C
Shelter me from the powder

        A#     C/G
and the finger

C
Cover me with the thought

                A#      C/G
that pulled the trigger

C
Think of me

   Em             A#
as one you'd never figured

      Dm          C
Would fade away so young

     Dm            C
With so much left undone

  Dm             Em
Remember me to my love,

            F
I know I'll miss her.
A# C/G * Alternate: Capo II C = A# A# = F Em = Dm Dm = Am F = C Set8