VETTERS@VAX1.ELON.EDU (Steve Vetter )
Shots - Neil Young
tabbed by Stan Southern
Here are the chords and words to "Shots",
the Boarding House 5/27/78 version.
This song is played in a "dropped" tuning
(DGCFAD, instead of EADGBE). However,
the chords I have listed are those that
would be played as if there was no dropped tuning.
Thus, an Am as I have it written is really a
Gm I guess. But it's a lot easier to play it
in the dropped tuning.
I can't remember the name of one chord - it's A something.
I have it listed as A??, but it's really just 003210
(it's that chord from My My Hey Hey)
Thanks to Steve Vetter for motivating me to transcribe
this.
- Stan
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Am F
Children
C G Am F
Are lost in the sand clearing roads with little hands
C E Am F
Trying to join their father's castles together again
C G Am F
Will they make it? Who knows where or when
G
Old wounds will mend
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/n/neil_young/shots_crd.html ]
Am F
Shots
C G Am F
Ringing all along the borders can be heard
C E Am F
Comin' down like a venom in the sky
C G Am F
Cutting through the air faster than a bird
G
in the night
Am F
Machines
C G Am F
Are winding their way along, looking strong
C E Am F
Building roads and bringing back loads
C G Am F
of building materials
G
in the night
Am F
Men
C G Am F
Are trying to move the boulders on the ground
C E Am F
lines between the different spots that each has found
C G Am F
but back home another scene was going down
G
in the night
Am F
Lust
C G Am F
Comes creepin' through the night to feed on hearts
C E Am F
of suburban wives who learned to pretend
C G Am F
when they met their dreams end
G
in the night
Am G A??
But I'll never use your love you know I'm not like that
Am G A??
and so if you give your heart to me
Dm E7
I promise to you
Dm E7
whatever we do
A?? G C A?? C A??
that I will always be true
Am F
Children
C G Am F
Are lost in the sand clearing roads with little hands
C E Am F
Trying to join their father's castles together again
C G Am F
Will they make it? Who knows where or when
G
Old wounds will mend
