Neil Young – The Old Laughing Lady (Guitar)

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Notes: The quick change to C and G at the end on many lines is omitted it occurs everywhere but 'if there ain't no wall / you got to move...' the run through from C to Am via the B note is a familiar ny trick... [Chords] Am* 020010 [Intro] G C G [Verse 1]
G
Don't call pretty Peggy,

C                     G
She can't hear you no more

G
Don't leave no message

C              G
Round her back door

                  C
They say the old laughing lady

                 G
Been here before

 D               C
She don't keep time

                         G
She don't count score
[Interlude] G C G [Verse 2]
G
You can't have a cupboard

C                 G
If there ain't no  wall
You got to move
C
There's no time for you to stall

                  C            Am*
They say the old laughing lady

         C     D    G
Dropped by to call

 D               Am
And when she leaves

                C          G
She leaves nothing at all
verse: (without the run through Am) [Bridge]
G
See the drunkard of the village

C              G
Fallin' on his feet
He can't tell his ankle
C                    G
From the rest of his feet

                  C            Am*
He loves his old laughing lady

                 C           G     Bm
Because the taste is so sweet

         D
But the laughin' lady's loving

           Am          C    G
Ain't the kind he can keep
[Interlude] D Am C G [Outro]
           G
There's a fever on the freeway

C              G
Blacks out the night
There's a slippin' on the stairway
  C                G
Just don't feel right

           C
There's a rumblin' in the bedroom

   C           G
And a flashin' of light

D
There's the old laughing lady

  C                  G
Everything is all right

D
There's the old laughing lady

  C                  G
Everything is all right
[Coda] D Am C G