Neil Young - Rocking in the Free World
This next song is great for practicing chord changes where you have to move your whole hand. The chord changes require you to move all of your fingers to the new position. Practicing until you can make the changes quickly will greatly improve your skills. The chords used in this song are all very common chords which you will find reused in many other songs. Make sure you listen to the song to get a feel for the timing of the chord changes because it can be a little trickier than the previous songs.Chords:
You will only need to learn one new chord for this song:
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Chords and Lyrics
Verse Chords: E D C Chorus Chords: G D C E Verse: Rocking in the free world Colors on the street Red, white, and blue People shuffling their feet People sleeping in their shoes There's a warning sign in the road ahead There's a lot of people saying we'd be better off dead Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them So I try Forget them any way I can Chorus: Keep on rocking in the free world keep on rocking in the free world keep on rocking in the free world keep on rocking in the free world I see a girl in the night with a baby in her hands Under an old street light near a garbage can Now she put her kid away, she's gone to get a hit She hates her life, and what she's done with it That's one more kid, that'll never go to school Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool Keep on rocking in the free world keep on rocking in the free world keep on rocking in the free world keep on rocking in the free world There's a thousand points of light For the homeless man There's a kinder, gentler machine gun hand There's department stores, and toilet paper Styrofoam garbage for the Ozone layer There's a man of the people, says people alive Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive Keep on rocking in the free world keep on rocking in the free world keep on rocking in the free world keep on rocking in the free world
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