POWDERFINGER
Neil Young

ALTERNATIVE KEY CHORDS: E A E AE, A E AE, A G#m A, G#m7 Amaj7 (3x), B
ALTERNATIVE KEY HARP: E diatonic (1st position, E)

HARP: G diatonic (1st position, G)

VERSE 1:
G                       C                        G     C G
Look out, Ma, there's a white boat comin' up the river
       C                                          G    C G
With a big red beacon and a flag and a man on the rail
              C
I think you'd better call John
                                  Bm        C
'cause it don't look like they're here to deliver the mail
         Bm7               Cmaj7
And it's less than a mile away
  Bm7                      Cmaj7
I hope they didn't come to stay
         Bm7                       Cmaj7                   D
It's got numbers on the side and a gun and it's makin' big waves

VERSE 2:
Daddy's gone, my brother's out huntin' in the mountains
Big John's been drinkin' since the river took Emmy-Lou
So the powers that be left me here to do the thinkin'
And I just turned twenty-two
I was wonderin' what to do
And the closer they got the more those feelin's grew

VERSE 3:
Daddy's rifle in my hand felt reassurin'
He told me "Red means run, son, numbers add up to nothin"
But when the first shot hit the dock I saw it comin'
Raised my rifle to my eye
Never stopped to wonder why
Then I saw black and my face splashed in the sky

SOLO / INSTRUMENTAL: (verse chords)

VERSE 4:
Shelter me from the powder and the finger
Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger
Think of me as one you never figured
Would fade away so young
With so much left undone
Remember me to my love, I know I'll miss her