Stringman Chords by Neil Young

_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _ _
[C] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _ _
[F] _ _ [F] _ _ You _ _ _ _ _ can say the soul is gone [Bb] and the feeling is just not there.
_ _ _ Not like [C] it was so long [F] ago.
_ [C] _ _ _
[C] _ [F] On the empty page before you, [Dm] you can fill in what you care.
[G] _ _ [Bb] But try to make [C] it new before [F] you go. _ _ _ _ _
_ Take the simple case of the Sarge [D] who can't go back to [Dm] war.
Cause the hippies [Bb] tore down [C] everything that he was [F] fighting for.
[C] Or _
_ _ [F] the lovers on the blanket _ that the [D] city turned to whores.
_ [Dm] _ [Bb] With memories [C] of being [F] kissed by the sun.
[C] _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ You can say the soul is gone [G] and close another [Dm]
door.
_ _ [Bb] Just be sure [C] that yours is [F] not the one. _ _ _
_ And [Bb] I'm singing [F] for the strange man [Bb] who lately lost his [F] wife.
_ _ [Bb] There is no _ [Dm] dearer friend of mine [C] that I know in [F] this life.
_ [Bb] On his shoulder rests [F] a violin _ [Bb] for his head where chaos [F] reigns.
But [Bb] his heart can't find [Dm] the simple way [C] to live with all [F] those things.
[C] _ _ [Bb] _ [C] All [F] those [D] things.
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] All [F] those _
[D] things.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] Strange man.
_ [Bb] _ _ All those things.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _