Old Man Uke tab by Neil Young

9 Chords used in the song: FM7, D, Dsus4, F, C, G, Am7, Em7, D/F#

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Year:  1972
Difficulty: 
3.5
(Intermediate)
Key: C, GChords
FM7 FM7             D D Dsus4 Dsus4 D D     x2 

FM7 FM7 D D
Old man look at my life, I'm a lot like you were x2

D D F F C C G G D D F F C C F F

DWB: (try a quick F F-G G at the end of the phrase on the way back to D D)

D D F F
Old man look at my life
C C G G
Twenty four and there's so much more
D D F F
Live alone in a paradise
C C F F
That makes me think of two


DWB: (try a quick F F-G G at the end of the verse on the way back to D D)


D D F F
Love lost, such a cost,
C C G G
Give me things that don't get lost.
D D C C
Like a coin that won't get tossed
F F G G
Rollin' home to you.


D D Am7 Am7 Em7 Em7 G G D/F# D/F#


D D Am7 Am7 Em7 Em7 G G
Old man take a look at my life I'm a lot like you
D D Am7 Am7 Em7 Em7 G G
I need someone to love me the whole day through
D D Am7 Am7 Em7 Em7
Oh, one look in my eyes and you can tell that's true.

D D F F C C G G D D F F C C F F

(DWB: play a quick F F-G G at the end of the phrase on the way back to D D)

Lullabies, 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 at last.
Rolling home to you.

Old man look at my life, I'm a lot like you were x2 (intro chords)

D D F F C C G G

D D

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About this song: Old Man

"Old Man" is a song written and performed by Neil Young on his 1972 album Harvest. The song was written for the caretaker of the northern-California Broken Arrow Ranch, which Young purchased for $350,000 in 1970. The song compares a young man's life to an old man's and shows that the young man has, to some extent, the same needs of the old one. James Taylor played six-string banjo (tuned like a guitar) and sang on the song, and Linda Ronstadt also contributed vocals. In the movie Heart of Gold, Young introduces the song as follows:

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