Chords for Neil Young - Hitchhiker (Live at Farm Aid 25)

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_ _ When I was a hitchhiker on the road, I had to count on you.
_ _ But you needed me [D]
to ease the load, and for conversation [Em] too.
_ _ [D] Why didn't you just ride [C] on through?
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You didn't see me in Toronto. _
I first tried out some hash, _ smoked [Em] some [G] opium, and I'd do it again.
[D] But I didn't [E] have the cash. _
[D] I didn't [C] have the cash. _
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_ _ _ _ Then I tried amphetamine, and [E] my head was in a glass.
_ _ Taped underneath [G] the speedometer wires [D] of my 48-butte [Em] stash.
_ [D] But I knew that wouldn't [C] _ last. _ _ _ _ _
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Then came _ [D] California, _ [C] where I first saw [G] open water. _
In the [C] land of [Em] opportunity, _ [D] I knew I was [Em] getting hotter. _ _
I knew I was [C] getting hotter. _ _
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_ _ _ [E] But the neon lights and the endless nights and fame took me by surprise.
_ The doctor gave [G] me Valium, but [D] I still couldn't [E] close my eyes.
_ [D] I still couldn't close my [C] _ eyes. _ _ _ _ _
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Then came _ [G] paranoia, _ [C] and it ran away [A] with me. _ _
[C] I could not [Em] sign an autograph [A]
or appear on [Em] TV _ [D] or see or [C] be seen. _
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_ _ _ [G] _ Living in the country _ _ sounded good to me.
_ _ Smoking grass [E] while the summer passed [D] in a real organic [Bm] scene
_ _ [D] where everything [Bm] was green.
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_ _ _ _ When we had a kid and we split apart, I was living on the road.
And a little cocaine [G] went a long, long [D] way to ease that [Em] different load.
_ _ [A] My head [C] did explode.
_ _ _ My head did explode.
_ _ _ My head did explode.
_ _ _ My head did explode.
_ _ _ So, [E] _ _ what _ _ _ _
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[C] _ I was, [D] an Aztec [C] or a runner in [D] Peru, _
[C] I could build such beautiful buildings _
[D] to house the chosen [Em] few _
[D] like an Inca from [C] Peru. _ _
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_ _ _ _ Many _ years have come and gone like friends and enemies.
_ _ I've tried to leave [G] my past behind, [D] but it's catching up [Em] with me.
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I don't know [Em] how I'm standing here [E] living in this life. _
I'm saying for all my [G] children _ _
[D] and my faithful [Em] wife. _ _
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