Chords for Neil Young interview video from ABC 7:30 Report Australia 2009

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[Am] _ It's 30 years since Neil Young wrote [A] one of his most enduring songs.
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_ [Em] _ [F] _ _ Now at 62, Neil [C] Young is the epitome of that famous [G] lyric, performing to a [Eb] third generation
of fans [Dm] as the headline act of this year's national big day out [Eb] festival.
[Em] I love to play everywhere I play.
I mean, and it's nice to see a lot of people.
But
we usually see people of all ages.
I think that most of the old people in Australia are
the ones that think that big day out is for young people.
_ _ It's like the people who are
young in their heads don't care. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Young's signature stripped back [D] country rock is enjoying a resurgence [Gbm] [A] and the artist is
mining his [Dm] own back catalogue [F] with a series of releases dating back to the 1960s.
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_ _ _ _ [F] _ But putting his 40 year [Cm] legacy in order [Gm] isn't just for his legion of [F] fans.
[E] It's the result
of a life threatening brain aneurysm in 2005.
[Em] _ I mean just surviving is, [G] you know, [E] knowing that I might [Bm] not have survived if we luckily
hadn't found it.
So we just, you know, keep on going and of course use the time as wisely
as [Gm] possible since it seems to be borrowed anyway.
_ Might as well use it. _ _ _ _
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[G] _ As an elder statesman in an industry that's [C] notoriously fickle, Neil Young [G] is a [Gm] rarity,
a musical ground [Dm] breaker with a strong social conscience. _
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_ [Ab] A 2006 [Am] reformation tour with his formative [A] 1970s band Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
became a political campaign against George W.
Bush.
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[A] _ _ _ _ Which Young has only one regret.
It's too late. _ _ _
I really wish that they still would impeach him because I think on record
it should be straight that you can't [D] do that.
Now with a new president, [G] Neil Young sees renewed hope for the United [Bm]
States.
There's this change [N] with Obama.
It's fantastic.
And, you know, I hope that he's successful
and I hope people remember that we are in a huge mess and it's going to take a full
eight years to get out of it.
He's not going to pull us out of it in two years.
And I hope
that the _ _ _ _ _ politics as usual doesn't hurt him too much.
You campaigned musically to get rid of George W.
Bush.
Are you disappointed you're not in
the United States this week to play at the inauguration of Barack Obama?
Well, Bono's there.
Bono's got it covered.
I don't need to go.
_ _ No, I don't need to be
there.
I'm glad they're doing this and everything.
But _ _ _ I've got a lot of respect for all of that
and everything, but it's not really [Db] my cup of tea.
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_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Db] _ Once _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ aligned [Eb] with an ideal that said [Db] music could change the world, Neil [Fm] Young is eyeing
a [Ab] different kind of challenge.
[Eb] Just singing a song [N] is not enough.
That's like just talking the talk.
_ So you have to
do something.
You have to really make a change and you have to try to do something that represents
what you're saying and live what [A] you're saying. _ _
_ For Neil [Bb] Young, it's his electric-powered 59 Continental, [A] which he proudly boasts has
gone from 9 to 100 [Bb] miles to the gallon as part of a biofuel [A] conversion.
If you can have a big car _ _ that's smart and clean, there's nothing wrong with it.
Dubbed Link [G] Vault, Young's small [A] development team includes an Australian scientist, Uli
Kruger, whom he found on [G] the Internet.
Ford and [A] Chrysler and GM and everything, they have got buildings with floors and floors
and floors of people employed and everything.
We just have the Internet.
There's only three
of us.
There's myself, _ _ Jonathan Goodwin in Kansas and Uli Kruger and we work together
and we have a virtual garage.
Young will drive his [G] Lincoln to Washington in [A] March as part of his campaign for a green
fuel-led recovery of the car [G] industry.
We had [E] spent as much money as we spent on wars in the last 10 years on research, on
developing new fuels, _ developing new biofuels and new ways of making biofuels, then we would
be growing our fuel.
The fuel would be living.
_ Things would be happening and the people's
fuel would be a reality.
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_ _ _ _ While most people of his vintage are thinking of scaling down, [Db] Neil Young is still looking
to the [E] future with a new record due for release later this year and a long [B]-awaited [A] archive
[E] box set in the works.
We'll give the new record a couple of months to breathe and then we'll put the archives
out.
_ _ New trumps old.
_ _ _ Maybe. _ _
[Eb] It has to.
You can't just give it to somebody and say, well, we're going to do this.
You can't give up on the new stuff.
That's what makes it happen.
You can't stop planting.
_ You can't just eat.
[C] _ It's better [G] to burn out [Am] than _ never [F] to speak. _ _
[Em] _ [A] At [Am] 62, you're [G] showing no signs of burning out or fading away.
How long do you think
you'll keep playing?
[Gbm] _ Oh, I don't know.
_ _ I really don't.
_ Wish I did. _
Or maybe I don't wish I did.
_ I'm glad that
I'm here doing it now and I'm glad that people still like to listen to it because I'd be
doing it anyway.
_ So, _ _ _ you know, I'm lucky.
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_ [C] I mean, if I didn't love it, it would be very difficult [E] for me to do this.
I mean, I don't
think I could [Bm] fake it.
[E] So if I ever don't feel like doing it, that'll be [Bm] when I stop [E] doing it. _ _ _