Chords for Neil Young - My Pledge (Official Lyric Video)

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_ If it please the court, [F] I would love to say [C] that it has not always been [G] true. _
_ _ _ Standing here [F] before you, Judge, _ [C] I make my pledge of truth [G] to you. _
_ The waves came over the [F] _
Bowsprit, [C] decks awash with running [G] green and foam.
_ _ Back there at the wheel, [F] I was terrified.
[C] Next day we first [G] saw home. _
_ My relatives came over [F] on the Mayflower, [C] _ landed on the shore [G] almost alone.
_ _ That damn [F] traffic today is terrible, [C] and everywhere I look I see [G] people alone.
_ Alone with their [C] heads slipping in their hands, lost in the [G] conversation stare.
_ Walking with their [F] eyes looking at the screen, [C] talking like they were really [G] there. _ _
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I'm lost in this new [F] generation. _ _
[C] Left me behind, it seems.
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_ Listening to the shadow of [F] Jimi Hendrix, [C] purple haze sounding like [G] TV. _ _
I stepped on someone's [B] hand [F] lying on the street, [C] both asleep and [G] dead it may seem. _
He didn't even move there [F] on the sidewalk. _
[C] I stood there staring in [G] a dream. _ _
She came along in [F] her uniform, _ [C] stood moving me away with [G] a gentle hand.
_ Dressed in white like [F] a nightingale, her [C] name was Florence, [G] Florence of the land.
I knew I'd _ [F] _ _ _
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_ _ _ seen her [F] somewhere, _ but she [C] was busy with him gone.
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She came with three different [F] brothers, _ _
_ [C] Abraham, Martin, [G] and John. _
I heard a song about that [F] once, and [C] I never knew what it meant.
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Three stars died in a plane one [F] night. _
[C] Rock and roll, the message [G] was sent. _
I couldn't wrap my head [B] around [F] it, didn't [C] know what it meant.
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_ Standing there on [F] that sandy beach, _ [C] watching it turn to [G] cement. _ _
_ Now I don't see [F] all the colors, _ [C] and I might miss some of their [G] beauty. _ _
But I do see what I see, [F] _ _
[C] and I want to [G] do my duty. _ _
_ _ Enlisted in the [F] Navy at the corner store, [C] they had a recruiting [G] booth. _ _
_ I covered my heart [F] and raised my hand [C] and swore it was [G] the truth. _
_ _ That's my pledge.
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That's my pledge.
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_ [C] _ That's my pledge, [G] Judge. _ _
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