Neil Young

Campaigner

Neil Young


Tom: D

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E|---2--2--0--2--2-------2--2--0--2--2-----2----               
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      D--->              Gmaj7--->                                          
D                                                              
I am a lonely visitor.                                         
  G               Gmaj7                                        
I came to late to cause a stir,                                
         D                 Bm           Bm/A  G                
Though I campaigned all my life towards that goal.             
    G              F#7                                         
I hardly slept the night you wept                              
    Bm                 Bm/A                                    
Our secret's safe and still well kept                          
A                                 Bm   Bm/A   G                
Where even Richard Nixon has got soul.                         
G                           A   "Bm  G  Bm  E" - See Below     
Even Richard Nixon has got soul.                               
                                                               
D                                                              
Traffic cops are all color blind.                              
G                 Gmaj7                                        
People steal from their own kind.                              
D                 Bm      Bm/A    G                            
Evening comes to early for  a   stroll.                        
      G                 F#7                                    
Down neon streets the streaker streaks.                        
      Bm                    Bm/A                               
The speaker speaks, but the truth still leaks,                 
A                                 Bm                           
Where even Richard Nixon has got soul.                         
G                          A    "Bm  G  Bm  E" - See Below     
Even Richard Nixon has got it, soul.                           
      
D                                                           
Podium rocks in the crowded waves                           
     G                    Gmaj7                             
The speaker talks of the beautiful saves                    
D                      Bm            Bm/A  G                
That went down long before he played this role              
          G                   F#7                           
For the hotel queens and the magazines,                     
Bm                  Bm/A                                    
Test tube genes and slot machines                           
A                                Bm                         
Where even Richard Nixon has got soul.                      
G                          A    "Bm  G  Bm  E" - See Below  
Even Richard Nixon has got it, soul.                        
                                                            
D                                                           
Hospitals have made him cry                                 
            Gmaj7                                           
But there's always a free way in his eye,                   
            D                 Bm         Bm/A  G            
Though his beach just got to crowded for his stroll.        
 G                      F#7                                 
Roads stretch out like healthy veins,                       
     Bm               Bm/A                                  
And wild gift horses strain the reins,                      
       A                          Bm                        
Where even Richard Nixon has got soul.                      
 G                          A    "Bm  G  Bm  E" - See Below 
Even Richard Nixon has got soul.                            
                                                            
D                                                           
I am a lonely visitor.                                      
   G                                                        
I came to late to cause a stir,                             
           D                Bm                G             
Though I campaigned all my life towards that goal.          
                                                            
 final bit to fade                                          
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      G--->      F#--->          Bm--->           Bm       
                                                           
 Pick the notes around struming the chords.                
                                                                            
                                                           
"Bm  G  Bm  E"                                             
E|--------------2--------3--------------2--------0---      
B|--------------3--------0--------------3--------0---      
G|--------------4--------0--------------4--------1---      
D|--------0-----4--------0--------0-----4--------2---      
A|--0--2-----2--2--0-----2--0--2-----2--2--0-----2---      
E|--------------2-----3--3--------------2-----0--0---      
                Bm-->    G              Bm-->    E