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/ Neil Young / Re-ac-tor (1981) / Shots guitar tab

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

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


Neil Young albums
2003 Greendale
2002 Are You Passionate?
2000 Silver & Gold
1996 Broken Arrow
1995 Mirror Ball
1994 Sleeps With Angels
1992 Harvest Moon
1990 Ragged Glory
1989 Freedom
1988 This Note's for You
1987 Life
1985 Old Ways
1983 Trans
1981 Re-ac-tor
1980 Hawks & Doves
1979 Rust Never Sleeps
1975 Zuma
1975 Tonight's the Night
1972 Harvest
1970 After The Gold Rush
1969 Neil Young
1969 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Re-ac-tor tabs
01Op-er-a Star tabbass tab
03T-Bone tabbass tab
04Get Back on It tabbass tab
05South-ern Pac-i-fic tabbass tab
06Mo-tor Cit-y tabbass tab
07Rap-id Tran-sit tabbass tab
08Shots tabbass tab

 

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