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Rockin' in the Free World #neilyoung #rock #acoustic

[Intro] Em D C x4

Em D C
Colours on the street Red white and blue
People shufflin' their feet People sleepin' in their shoes
But there's a [Em]warnin' sign on the [D]road a[C]head
There's a [Em]lot of people sayin' we'd be [D]better off [C]dead
Don't [Em]feel like Satan but [D]I'm to [C]them
so I [Em]try to forget it any[D]way I [C]can

G D C C Em
KEEP ON ROCKIN' IN THE FREE WORLD
KEEP ON ROCKIN' IN THE FREE WORLD
KEEP ON ROCKIN' IN THE FREE WORLD
KEEP ON ROCKIN' IN THE FREE WORLD

[Instrumental]A (play for 4 bars, interleave A with A7)

Em D C x4 (just like in the intro)

Em D C
I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can D C
Now she puts the kid away and she's gone to get a hit
Em D C
She hates her life and what she's done to it
Em D C
That's one more kid that will never go to school
Em D C
Never get to Fall in love never get to be cool

[Chorus]

[Instrumental]A (play for 4 bars, interleave A with A7)

[Solo] Em D C x8

Em D C
We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
Em D C
We got a kinder gentler machine gun hand
Em D C
We got department stores and toilet paper
Em D C
Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
Em D C
Got a man of the people says keep hope alive
Em D C
Got fuel to burn got roads to drive

[Chorus]

[Instrumental]A (play for 4 bars, interleave A with A7) Em D
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Context
Young wrote the song while on tour with his band The Restless in February 1989. He learned that a planned concert tour to the Soviet Union was not going to happen and his guitarist Frank "Poncho" Sampedro said "we'll have to keep on rockin' in the free world". The phrase struck Young, who thought it could be the hook in a song about "stuff going on with the Ayatollah and all this turmoil in the world.” He had the lyrics the next day.

The lyrics criticize the George H. W. Bush administration, then in its first month, quoting Bush's famous "thousand points of light" remark from his 1989 inaugural address and his 1988 presidential campaign promise for America to become a "kinder, gentler nation". The song also refers to Ayatollah Khomeini's proclamation that the United States was the "Great Satan" and Jesse Jackson's 1988 campaign slogan, "Keep hope alive". The song was first performed live on February 21, 1989, in Seattle with The Restless, without the band having rehearsed it.

The song is included on Young's Greatest Hits (2004) release. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.