Old Laughing Lady

Neil Young

Tom: G

Intro: G    C G
        
 G                        
 Don't call pretty Peggy, 
 C                     G    
 She can't hear you no more 
 Don't leave no message
 C              G   
 Round her back door
              C                
 They say the old laughing lady
             G   
 Been here before
     D               C
 She don't keep time 
                 G    
 She don't count score

 G  C G
      
 G                        
 You can't have a cupboard
 C                 G    
 If there ain't no  wall
 You got to move
 C                               
 There's no time for you to stall
              C            020010 Am
 They say the old laughing lady   
         C     D    G
 Dropped by to call 
     D               Am
 And when she leaves 
            C          G  
 She leaves nothing at all
                                    
 verse: (without the run through Am)

 G                              
 See the drunkard of the village
 C              G   
 Fallin' on his feet
 He can't tell his ankle
 C                    G   
 From the rest of his feet
              C            020010 Am
 He loves his old laughing lady   
             C           G     Bm
 Because the taste is so sweet 
         D                     
 But the laughin' lady's loving
           Am          C    G
 Ain't the kind he can keep 

 D Am C G

           G                    
 There's a fever on the freeway 
 C              G    
 Blacks out the night
 There's a slippin' on the stairway
      C                G
 Just don't feel right 
           C                      
 There's a rumblin' in the bedroom
       C           G    
 And a flashin' of light
 D                            
 There's the old laughing lady
      C                  G
 Everything is all right 
 D                            
 There's the old laughing lady
      C                  G
 Everything is all right 

 D Am C G
                                                                       
 notes: the quick change to C and G at the end on many lines is omitted
 it occurs everywhere but  'if there ain't no wall / you got to move...'
 the run through from C to Am via the B note is a familiar ny trick...