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Shots

Neil Young
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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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Children 
Are lost in the sand clearing roads with little hands 
Trying to join their father's castles together again 
Will they make it? Who knows where or when 
Old wounds will mend
Shots 
Ringing all along the borders can be heard 
Comin' down like a venom in the sky 
Cutting through the air faster than a bird 
in the night
Machines 
Are winding their way along, looking strong 
Building roads and bringing back loads 
of building materials 
in the night
Men 
Are trying to move the boulders on the ground 
lines between the different spots that each has found 
but back home another scene was going down 
in the night
Lust 
Comes creepin' through the night to feed on hearts 
of suburban wives who learned to pretend 
when they met their dreams end 
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
I promise to you
whatever we do
A?? G C A?? C A??
that I will always be true
Children 
Are lost in the sand clearing roads with little hands 
Trying to join their father's castles together again 
Will they make it? Who knows where or when 
Old wounds will mend

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