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Sugar Mountain

Neil Young

 

Tune guitar whole step down

 

Strum:    B   D   D U D U

          1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

 

Chord Guide

      3    4

G:    3x0003

       32 1

D11:  x54030

       32 1

C:    x32010

        3214

F9:   xx3213

         231

Dm:   xx0231

 

 

 

 

 

Intro: / G - - - / x4

       / D11 - - - / - - - - / C - - - / - - - - /

       / G - - - / - - - - / - - - - / - - - - /

       / D11 - - - / - - - - / C - - - / - - - - /

       / G - - - / - - - - / - - - - / - - - - /

 

Chorus:

G (2)             F9 (2)

Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain

G (2)                                F9 (2)
With the barkers and the colored balloons,

G (2)                        F9 (2)
You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain

Dm (3)                                                                   G (2)
Though you're thinking that you're leaving there too soon,

Dm (2)                          G (2)
You're leaving there too soon.

 

/ G - - - / x6

 

            G               F9
It's so noisy at the fair

     F9                           G (2)

But all your friends are there

              G                    F9
And the candy floss you had

                F9                      G (2)
And your mother and your dad.

Chorus

 

Repeat Intro (minus first line)

               G                          F9
There's a girl just down the aisle,

           F9                          G (2)
Oh, to turn and see her smile.

              G                            F9
You can hear the words she wrote

            F9                     G (2)
As you read the hidden note.

Chorus

Repeat Intro (minus first line)

 

                   G                      F9
Now you're underneath the stairs

                  F9                       G (2)
And you're givin' back some glares

            G                     F9
To the people who you met

              F9               G (2)
And it's your first cigarette.

Chorus

               G                        F9
Now you say you're leavin' home

                   F9              G (2)
'Cause you want to be alone.

            G                  F9
Ain't it funny how you feel

                    F9                 G (2)
When you're findin' out it's real?

Chorus

 

/ G - - - / x2


G (2)             F9 (2)

Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain

G (2)                                F9 (2)
With the barkers and the colored balloons,

G (2)                        F9 (2)
You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain

Dm (3)                                                                   G (2)
Though you're thinking that you're leaving there too soon

 

/ D11 - - - / - - - - / C - - - / - - - - /

/ G - - - / - - - - / - - - - /

 

End on G

 


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.