Artist Name
Neil Young
Neil Young - The Painter
(Prairie Wind, 2005)
NOTES:
The tab below for the intro section is just a suggestion.
Also, there is a variation of hammer-ons around the 'C' chord in
the first two lines of each verse. The rest of the song is
straight-forward except for the "Dadd2add4 to C1 to D1" transition
in the chorus, which is as follows (sorry, I don't know the chord
names, so I refer to them as C1 and D1):
Dadd2add4 C1 D1
e|---------------------------------------------|
B|-0h3----3-----------5-5------------7-7---7---|
G|-0-0-----0-----------------------------------|
D|-0h4--4---4---4/5-5-----5---5/7--7-----7-----|
A|---------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------|
The lap steel guitar part in the intro section can be
simulated by a second guitar as followings:
Riff 1: e|-10b1r~~~~-- (b1r -> slowly bend 1 full step
Riff 2: e|-7b1r~~~~--- and slowly release)
CHORDS:
Dadd2add4:x54030
C/G:3x2013
C1:xx5x5x
D9/F#:200210
Am7:x02010
D1:xx7x7x
INTRO:
G C/G Dadd2add4 Am7 G C/G Dadd2add4 C
e|------3-----3----------------------|------3-----3-----------------0--|
B|-------0----0h1----0h3--3-----0h1--|-------0----0h1----0h3--3-----1--|
G|--------0---0------0-0---0----0----|--------0---0------0-0---0----0--|
D|---0--------0h2----0h4-4--4---0h2--|---0--------0h2----0h4-4--4---2--|
A|-----------------------------------|------------------------------3--|
E|-3---------------------------------|-3-------------------------------|
^ ^
Riff 1 Riff 2
VERSE 1:
[G]The painter stood, [C]before her work
[G]She looked around every[C]-where
[G]She saw the pictures and she [C]painted them [Am] [D9/F#] [G]
[G]She picked the colors from the [Am]air [F] [D] [G]
VERSE 2:
[G]Green to green, [C]red to red
[G]Yellow to yellow in the [C]light
[G]Black to black when the [C]evening comes [Am] [D9/F#] [G]
[G]Blue to blue in the [Am]night [F] [D] [G]
INTRO
CHORUS 1:
It's a [G]long [C/G]road, [Dadd2add4] [C] [G]behind [C/G] [Dadd2add4] [C]
It's a [G]long [C/G]road, [Dadd2add4] [C1] ahead [D1]
If you [Em]follow every [C]dream, you might get [D]lost [D1]
If you [Em]follow every [C]dream, you [G]might - [D]get - [G]lost
[Intro]
Verse 3:
[G]She towed the line, [C]she held her end up
[G]She did the work of two [C]men
[G]But in the end, she [C]fell down [Am] [D9/F#] [G]
[G]Before she got up [Am]again [F] [D] [G]
Verse 4:
[G]I keep my friends, [C]eternally
[G]We leave our tracks in the [C]sound
[G]Some of them are [C]with me now [Am] [D9/F#] [G]
[G]Some of them can't be [Am]found [F] [D] [G]
INTRO
CHORUS 2:
It's a [G]long [C/G]road, [Dadd2add4] [C] [G]behind me [C/G] [Dadd2add4] [C]
And [G]I miss you [C/G] now [Dadd2add4] [C1] [D1]
If you [Em]follow every [C]dream, you might get [D]lost [D1]
If you [Em]follow every [C]dream, you [G]might - [D]get - [G]lost
INTRO
VERSE 5:
[G]Green to green, [C]red to red
[G]Yellow to yellow in the [C]light
[G]Black to black when the [C]evening comes [Am] [D9/F#] [G]
[G]Blue to blue through the [Am]night [F] [D] [G]
INTRO
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