Old Man Chords & Guitar Lesson
Welcome to my Old Man chord chart by Neil Young. Very cool song with some fairly simple chords, with the exception of the F chord, and a repetitive chord progression.
I really like Neil’s stuff for teaching beginner to beginner intermediate players as there’s always cool things to learn and embellish. This song uses a lot of 1/2 measures, so counting is very important to stay in time with the song.
If you need an easy fix for the F barre chord, you can use Fmaj7 for now.
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Old Man Strumming Patterns:
The timing may be a little tricky for the early-stage beginners. So feel free to come back once your rhythm and timing has improved.
Now obviously this song has a pretty intricate strumming and picking pattern that we are not going to over here. I have listed a more simplified strumming pattern that works well for this song below.
Strumming 1:
1 2 + 3 4+
D DU D DU
Strumming 2:
1 + 2 +a 3 + 4 + a
BB D DU B B D DU
Chorus: |Am7 Em7 G| part
Line this up with the lyric using down strums,
|Am7 Em7 G|
A lot like you
Old Man Guitar Lesson:
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Old Man Chord Chart:
Intro:
F F F(1/2) D D
F F F(1/2) D D
F
Old man look at my life,
|F D | D (1/2)
I'm a lot like you were.
F
Old man look at my life,
|F D | D (1/2)
I'm a lot like you were.
| C G | D F | C F |
|D F|
Old man look at my life,
|C G|
Twenty-four and there's so much more
|G F|
Live alone in a paradise
|C F|
That makes me think of two.
|D F|
Love lost, such a cost,
|C G|
Give me things that don't get lost.
|D C |
Like a coin that won't get tossed
|F G|
Rolling home to you.
D | Am7 Em7 G |
D
Old man take a look at my life
|Am7 Em7 G |
I'm a lot like you
D
I need someone to love me
|Am7 Em7 G |
the whole day through
D
Ah, one look in my eyes
|Am7 Em7 G |
and you can tell that's true.
| D F | C G | D F | C F |
Verse:
|D F |
Lullabies, look in your eyes,
|C G|
Run around the same old town.
|D F|
Doesn't mean that much to me
|C F |
To mean that much to you.
|D F |
I've been first and last
|C G |
Look at how the time goes past.
|D C|
But I'm all alone at last.
|F G|
Rolling home to you.
D | Am7 Em7 G |
D
Old man take a look at my life
|Am7 Em7 G |
I'm a lot like you
D
I need someone to love me
|Am7 Em7 G |
the whole day through
D
Ah, one look in my eyes
|Am7 Em7 G |
and you can tell that's true.
D F D (1/2)
F
Old man look at my life,
|F D | D 1/2
I'm a lot like you were.
F
Old man look at my life,
|F D | F (1/2)
I'm a lot like you were.
| C G | D (hold)
This file is the author’s own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It’s intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.
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