Ambulance Blues chords by Neil Young

*Tune guitar down one step, but I think it sounds all right if you don't*

 C             F
Back in the old folky days

 Am        Em         D
The air was magic when we played

 C                   F
The river boat was rocking in the rain

 Am          Em        D
Midnight was the time for the raid

 G
Oh Isabella, Proud Isabella

 Am
They tore you down and plowed you under

 Bm                C
You're only real with your makeup on

 G          D
How could I see you and stay too long


 C             F
All along the Navaho Trail

 Am           Em          D
Burnouts stub their toes on garbage pails

 C              F
Waitresses crying in the rain

 Am           Em          D
Will their boyfriends pass this way again'

 G
Oh Mother Goose, she's on the skids

 Am
The shoe* ain't happy neither are the kids

 Bm              C
She needs someone that she can scream at

 G           D
And I'm such at heel for making her so bad


 C                 F
I guess I'll call it sickness gone

 Am           Em          D
It's hard to say the meaning to this song

 C                F
An ambulance can only go so fast

 Am         Em         D
It's easy to get buried in the past

 C                  F
When you try to make a good thing last

Am  Em  D

 G
I saw today, in the entertainment section

 Am
There's room at the top for private detection

 Bm        C
To Mom and Dad this just doesn't matter

 G           D
But it's either that or pay off the kidnappers

 C              F
So all you critics sit alone

 Am            Em              D
You're no better than me for what you've shown

 C                         F
With your stomach pump and your hook and ladder dreams

 Am          Em         D
We could get together for some scenes


 G
Well I'm up in T.O. keepin' jive alive

 Am
And out on the corner it's half past five

 Bm              C
But the subways are empty and so are the cafes

 G                D
Except for the Farmer's Market and I can still hear him sayin'

 C                  F
"You're all just pissin' in the wind

 Am        Em        D
You don't know it but you are"

 C                F
And there ain't nothing like a friend

 Am               Em         D
Who can tell you you're just pissin' in the wind


 G
I never knew a man could tell so many lies

 Am
He had a different story for every set of eyes

 Bm           C
How can he remember who he's talking to'

G            D            G(hold)
Cause I know it ain't me and I hope it isn't you

>From _Neil Young Complete Music Volume III (1974-1979)_

* until now, I never knew this word

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