Chords for Neil Young - Old Man (Live at Farm Aid 2013)

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_ [Dm] _ [F] _ Oh man, [Dm] look at my life.
How _ _ [D] did you hurt?
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Oh [F] man, look at my life.
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_ [D] _ Oh [F] man, look at my [C] life.
Twenty-four and there's so [G] much [D] more.
Live [F] alone in a paradise [C] that makes me think [F] of you. _ _
_ [D] _ Love and [F] loss, such a [C] cost.
Give me things that don't [G] get [D] lost.
Like a [C] coin that won't get [F] lost,
I'm holding on to [G] you. _ _
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_ [Am] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] _
_ [D] _ _ _ Take a look at my life, what's [A] a [Em] lie?
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_ [D] _ _ _ Is someone gonna love me the [Am] whole [Em] day?
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_ [D] _ I'm the one that's looking in my eyes
[A] and you can tell [Em] that.
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[C] _ _ _ I'm the one _ [G] _
_ [D] _ that's [G] _ [F] _ _ _
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[D] looking in your eyes.
_ [F] Lullabies look in your [C] eyes.
Run around in the same [G] old town.
[D] _ Does it mean [F] that much to me
[C] to mean that much to [F] you? _ _
[G] _ [D] _ _ _ _ [F] First and [C] last,
looking how the time [G] goes by.
[D] _ But I'm [C] all alone. _
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[G] _ [D] _ _ _ Take a look at my life, [Am] I'm a lover.
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[G] _ [D] _ I'm the one _ _
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that's looking in your eyes.
Oh [F] man, _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Am] _ [Dm] oh man, look at my life. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Thanks for coming to Farm Aid. _
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_ This concert's about you and me, it's about us,
it's about all of us, it's about your kids.
_ _ It's about the food you eat
and the people who grow it. _
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_ We're at a moment in time we've never been at before
right now in this country and in the world
_ because we're threatened.
_ We're threatened, all of us, everybody, _
_ everybody everywhere by the same thing.
_ [A] _ And America, _ _ _
[E] America is the garden of the world.
[N] More things are grown here
than any other country in the entire planet.
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[N] And the farmers are on the front lines of climate change.
_ They're living the difference. _
_ They love the world, they see the world,
they see the climate,
they see the sun and the earth, that's what they do.
_ _ And farmers today, _ _ it's all in their hands
because all that carbon that's up in the sky,
_ and believe me, this has a lot to do with what's going on
with all of these radical weather patterns we're seeing.
This is real. _
All the carbon that's up in the sky
used to be down here,
_ used to be in the ground, _
_ _ _ _ it used to be in the soil,
_ used to be down here _ under the crops.
_ _ And then Monsanto and all of the big _ chemical companies
and the _ industrialists,
_ they came and they [Db] made factory farms
and they replaced family farms
and [G] they brought in the chemicals
and they made it so you couldn't grow without chemicals.
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And then the farmers,
a little guy tried to get a loan from the bank
and the bank said,
we'll give you a loan, oh a farmer, we'll give you a loan,
but you have to use these chemicals to get this loan,
you have to use the fertilizers,
you have to use what we tell you to use
or you won't get the [Dm] loan. _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Bb] That's the truth. _
[A] That's what we're living right now.
_ [N] Those chemicals and all those things
that we grew with for so many years
_ _ made it so we've lost sometimes more than half our topsoil.
And it didn't just disappear,
_ _ it's up there.
We need to bring it down to earth. _ _ _
_ _ What can you do?
You can support _ your local family farm
because they're growing sustainably. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ You can write your congressman in Washington
or wherever the hell he is tonight
_ and _ _ _ you can tell him,
_ _ before you give $23 _ to a farmer
to grow corn for one acre,
_ which really translates to these huge Cargill companies
and these giant corporate farms,
they get all the money
_ and they use all the chemicals.
_ _ Those people are getting paid for doing this by us. _ _
So this is not right.
This is the truth.
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That's what farm aid is all about. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [N] We want to bring good sense and sustainability back.
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_ We [G] think at farm aid
[N] that before the government gives someone $23
to grow an acre of corn,
they should say,
if you grow it sustainably,
_ if you grow it the right way
so we don't lose our [D] ground, _ _ _ _ _
we don't want to lose any more.
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[Bm] Colorado could be coming down a highway
towards [B] Albany right now.
_ _ [N] _ _ If you don't believe me,
_ you're in denial.
Wait a couple of months.
_ We've seen it.
We've seen it down in New Jersey.
You saw it in New York.
You saw it in New Orleans. _
_ _ You saw it up in Canada.
You saw it in Toronto.
You saw it in Calgary.
You saw it in the Midwest. _
It just keeps moving around like a ghost. _ _
[D] We've got to stop it.
You can [Bm] help.
You can do your part by supporting your family farms
and eating good food that comes from the land,
grown [N] sustainably. _
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