Neil Young                  Reprise

              Rockin' In the Free World   Freedom (1989)

 

         Intro: Em   D   C          x4 times

        

         Verse 1:

         Em                     D  C               Em              D  C

         Colors on the street                          Red, white, and blue

                Em                   D  C            Em                    D  C

         People shufflin their feet           people sleepin in their shoes

                   Em                 D     C

         There's a warnin sign on the road ahead

                   Em                             D          C

         There's a lot of people thinking we'd be better off dead

               Em                   D       C

         Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them

              Em                   D     C

         So I try to forget it any way I can

 

 

         Chorus:

         G       D                  C       Em

         Keep on rockin in the free world              x4 times

 

 

         Break:  A    Asus4         x4 times

         Intro:  Em   D    C        x4 times

 

 

         Verse 2:

         Em                         D  C             Em               D  C

         I see a woman in the night           with a baby in her hand

                  Em               D  C              Em          D  C

         Under an old street light            near a garbage can

                 Em                            D           C

         Now she puts the kid away cause she's gotta get a hit

             Em                            D         C

         She hates her life and what she's done with it

                Em                  D           C

         That's one more kid that'l never go to school

               Em                         D         C

         Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool

        

 

         Chorus:

        

 

         Break:  A    Asus4                  x4 times

         Intro:  Em   D    C        x4 times

 

         Break:  A    count of 8   (chugg)

        

 

         Verse 3:

                  Em                       D   C             Em           D  C

         We gotta thousand points of light             for the homeless man

                     Em               D           C            Em   D   C

         We've got a kinder, gentler, machine gun hand

                   Em                    D      C

         We've got department stores and toilet paper

         Em                        D     C

         Styrofoam garbage for the ozone layer

               Em                           D    C

         Got a man of the people, says keep hope alive

             Em                   D        C

         Got fuel to burn, we got roads to drive

        

 

         Chorus:

 

         Break:  A    Asus4                   x4 times

         Intro:  Em   D      C                x8 times

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