[ Mideast vacation von Neil Young ]



	MIDEAST VACATION - NEIL YOUNG
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	from: LIFE


	Submitted by: Steve Vetter

	INTRO: (x4)
	G Bm

	  G                            Bm
	I used to watch Highway Patrol whittlin' with my knife
	        G                              Bm
	but the thought never struck me I'd be black and white for life
	      G                              Em
	I was raised on law and order in a community of strife
	  D                            Am                  C   Am   C   Am
	became a restless border and I never took a wife

	       G                   Bm
	I went looking for Khadafi aboard Air Force One
	      G                          Bm
	but I never did find him and the CIA said son
	       G                     Em
	you'll never be a hero, your flying days are done
	     D                                     Am                 C Am
	it's time for you to go home now, stop sniffin that smoking gun
      
	C Am (x6)

	      G                                Bm
	I was travellin with my family through the mideast late one night
	       G                            Bm
	in the hotel all was quite the kids were out like little lights
	         G                                        Em
	then the street filled with jeeps there was an explosion to the right
	     D                                Am                   C Am C Am     
	they chanted "death to America" I was feelin like a fight

	     G                       Bm 
	So I ran down the stairs and out into the street
	        G                      Bm
	someone kicked me in the belly someone else kissed my feet
	      G                  Em
	I was Rambo in the disco shooting to the beat
	     D                             Am                   C Am C Am
	When they burned me in effigy my vacation was complete

	C Am  (several times, until fade out)