Friday, August 24, 2012

Can I Swim in This Sound?


A reporter asked Neil Young how he determines if he should still play any song from his back catalog. "Can I swim in this sound?" That's the question he said that he must be able to answer to know if a song will survive. This song is meant to sound like a Neil Young song, in homage, not mimicry. And I wrote it in Canada.


(Am) Rear-view dreams distorted
(F#m) Young me idles by (Gm)
(Am) I'm running on, got Hank strapped tight
(F#m) Richard Nixon had to die --(Esus4)  don't cry

(D) Cortez on the water
(A7sus4) Four dead on the ground
(A7) Chrome rusts in the prarie wind
(D) Can I swim in this sound? (Asus4) (Dsus2) (Dsus4) (D) 

(D) Can I swim? (A) Where does my song end?
(D) Can I swim? (A) Where do I begin?
(D) Can I swim? (A) May I bring my friends?
(D) Can I swim in this sound? (Asus4) (Dsus2) (Dsus4) (D)  
(D) Cortez on the water
(A7sus4) Four dead on the ground
(A7) Chrome rusts in the prarie wind
(D) Can I swim in this sound? (Asus4) (Dsus2) (Dsus4) (D)  
(D) Can I swim? (A) Where eagles cry
(D) Can I swim?  (A) Where orcas sigh
(D) Can I swim?  (A) Where dogs don't die
(D) Can I swim in this sound? (Asus4) (Dsus2) (Dsus4) (D)  

(D) Can I swim? (A) Where redwoods grow
(D) Can I swim? (A) With buffalo
(D) Can I swim? (A) With the old man down the road?

(D) Can I swim? (A) Where seasons change
(D) Can I swim?(A) Where true love reigns
(D) Can I swim? (A) Like a hurricane
(D) Can I swim in this sound?

(D) Can I swim?  (A) Let's take a risk
(D) Can I swim?  (A) Please bear my kids
(D) Can I swim?  (A) I want your last good kiss
(D) Can I swim in this sound? (Asus4) (Dsus2) (Dsus4) (D)  


(Am) Rear-view dreams distorted
(F#m) Young me idles by (Gm)
(Am) I'm running on, got Hank strapped tight
(F#m) Richard Nixon had to die --(Esus4)  don't cry


(D) Cortez on the water
(A7sus4) Four dead on the ground
(A7) Chrome rusts in the prarie wind
(D) Can I swim in this sound? (Asus4) (Dsus2) (Dsus4) (D)
(D) Can I swim in this sound? (Asus4) (Dsus2) (Dsus4) (D)  

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