{title: Rocking in the free world}
{artist: Neil Young}
{time: 4/4}
{tempo: 128}
{key: Em}
{duration: 4:44}
{meta: author Frans-Willem Post, 2026-05-06}
{start_of_part: Intro}
[Em] [D] [-] [C]
[Em] [D] [-] [C]
[Em] [D] [-] [C]
[Em] [D] [-] [C]
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{start_of_verse: Verse 1}
there's [Em]colors on the street, [D] [-] [C] red, [Em]white and blue [D] [-] [C]
people [Em]shufflin' their feet, [D] [-] [C] people [Em]sleepin' in their shoes [D] [-] [C]
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 I [D]am to [C]them
so I [Em]try to forget it, any [D]way I [C]can
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{start_of_chorus: Chorus 1}
[G] keep on [D]rockin' in the free [C]world [Em]
[G] keep on [D]rockin' in the free [C]world [Em]
[G] keep on [D]rockin' in the free [C]world [Em]
[G] keep on [D]rockin' in the free [C]world [Em]
{end_of_chorus}
{start_of_part: Link}
[A] [A] [A] [A]
[Em] [D] [-] [C]
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[Em] [D] [-] [C]
[Em] [D] [-] [C]
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{start_of_verse: Verse 2}
I see a [Em]woman in the night [D] [-] [C] with a [Em]baby in her hand [D] [-] [C]
under an [Em]old street light near a [D]garbage [C]can [Em] [D] [-] [C]
now she [Em]puts the kid away, and she's [D]gone to get a [C]hit
she [Em]hates her life, and what she's [D]done to [C]it
there's [Em]one more kid that will [D]never go to [C]school
never [Em]get to fall in love, never [D]get to be [C]cool
{end_of_verse}
{chorus: Chorus 2}
{start_of_part: Link}
[A] [A] [A] [A]
{end_of_part}
{start_of_part: Solo}
[Em] [D] [-] [C] [Em] [D] [-] [C]
[Em] [D] [-] [C] [Em] [D] [-] [C]
[Em] [D] [-] [C] [Em] [D] [-] [C]
[Em] [D] [-] [C] [Em] [D] [-] [C]
[G] [D] [C] [Em]
[G] [D] [C] [Em]
[G] [D] [C] [Em]
[G] [D] [C] [Em]
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{start_of_verse: Verse 3}
[Em] [D] [-] [C] [Em] [D] [-] [C]
We got a [EM]thousand points of light [D] [-] [C] for the [Em]homeless man [D] [-] [C]
we got a [Em]kinder, gentler, [D]machine gun [C]hand [Em] [D] [-] [C]
we got [Em]department stores and [D]toilet [C]paper
got [Em]Styrofoam boxes for the [D]ozone [C]layer
got a [Em]man of the people, says keep [D]hope ap[C]live
got [Em]fuel to burn, got [D]roads to [C]drive
{end_of_verse}
{chorus: Chorus 3}
{start_of_part: Link}
[A] [A] [A] [A]
{end_of_part}
{start_of_part: Solo, repeat}
[Em] [D] [-] [C] [Em] [D] [-] [C]
{end_of_part}