Chords for Cowgirl In The Sand by Neil Young - Guitar Lesson

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[A] What's going on guitar players?
Fantastic song [G]
for you.
This is Neil [N] Young's Caldor in the Sand.
This comes off his [G#m] 1969 album.
_ [G] Everybody knows this is nowhere.
_ Neil plays this song live just [F#]
amazingly _ _ _ cool.
I mean, he riffs on it for about 70 minutes.
_ _ [D] Especially with his band Crazy Horse.
Just really has some soaring _ _ awesome _ [F#] solos and jams.
[N] Check it out on YouTube.
In the meantime, _ let's take a look at the _ song.
First of all, it starts with an A minor to an F major.
And kind of riffs back and forth.
A minor to F major. _
You can do that lots and lots of times.
Especially if you're playing with other folks.
_ _ When Neil plays it live, he just does that a lot.
And other guys kind of solo over that.
Or Neil solos over that.
So, A minor to F several times.
And also between verses, he does the same thing.
I'll play maybe twice or four times in that demo.
But _ when you see A minor to F without the vocals,
you can just go ahead and riff on that for a long, long time.
_ _ _ The strumming pattern.
Let's not worry too much about strumming. _ _ _
Focus _ _ _ on the chords and let you figure out the rhythm as you go.
_ _ But I'll throw a suggested strumming pattern up here on the screen for you to look at. _
But again, when you're learning, I always say,
You kind of tap your foot and the rhythm will always come naturally.
_ _ The chords, [G] I'll put them here to the left.
They are as follows.
We have an A [Am] minor. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A#] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [N] _ We've got a C.
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[F] [Gm] A G. _ _ _ _ _
_ [C#] We've got an F major [F] _
7th. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ We _ _
_ _ _ [A] have an E [Em] minor. _
_ E is an echo minor. _ _ _
_ And an [N] _ E7.
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[F#m] And one more thing.
[N] When you're playing the A minor, _
take your middle finger, the one which is on the _ _ _ _ second _ _ _ _ _ _ fret, fourth string. _
Your middle finger.
Just hammer that on, off and on.
That kind of gives you the trademark riff that you hear in the intro.
[Am] Like, _ _ _ hammer, _ _ [F] hammer, F, _ _ _ _ _
[Am] A minor, hammer, _ _ hammer.
[F] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] So go ahead [G#m] and throw the [F#m] hammering in on the A minor just to spice it up.
And [F] _ [N] _ let's do a live play through.
Again, I'm going to throw the chords up here to my left as I play through at speed.
So let's get to it.
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_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ Hello cowgirl [F] in the sand. _ _
_ _ [B] _ [Am] _ _ _ Is this place at your [F] command? _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] Can I stay _ [Am] here for [G] a while?
_ _ [C] _ _ Can [G] I see [F] your [G] sweet, sweet smile?
_ _ [Dm] _ [Em] Old enough now [C] to change [F] your name.
_ [B] _ So [Em] many love you.
[C] Is it [F] the same? _
[Dm] Is the woman in view that makes you [C] want to [Em] play [F] this game? _ _ _
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Hello ruby [F] in the dark. _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ Has your band [F] begun to rot? _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] After all [Am] the sin [G] we've had.
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] I was hoping [Am] that we'd [G] turn back.
_ [Dm] _ _ [Em] Old enough now [C] to change [F] your name. _
[Dm] When so [Em] many love you.
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Is [F] it the same?
_ [Dm] Is the woman in view that makes you want [C] to play [F] this game?
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_ _ [G] _ [Am] _ _ Hello woman [F] of my dreams. _ _
_ [Em] _ [Am] _ _ This is not the way [F] it seems. _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] Purple _ [F] words on a gray [G] background. _ _
[F] _ _ Be [G] a woman, [F] has a beat [G] turned _ down.
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_ [Em] Old enough now [C] to change [F] your name.
_ [G] [Dm] When so [Em] many love you.
[C] Is it [F] the same?
_ [G] [Dm] Is the woman in view that makes you [C] want to play [F] this game?
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