Pearl Jam

Keep On Rockin' In The Free World(Tabs)

Pearl Jam

Key: Em

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	        (Live At Pinkpop 92)

The song starts with a random jam of songs: 
First: suggestions by Fugazi 
Second: Pulled up by Talking Heads 
Third: Rain by the Beatles 

Intro:  
there is some kind of aperggio going on while Em/D/C is played muted: 


Em                  D     C         Em 
E -----------------|------------------| 
B -----------------|--3---------------| 
G -----------------|----2----0--------| 
D -----------------|0----------2------| 
A -----------------|------3-----3p2-2-| 
E -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|----------------0-|

There are colors on the street...red, white, and blue 
People shufflin' their feet, people sleepin' in their shoes 
  
There's a warnin' sign in the road ahead 
There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead 
Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them 
So I try to forgive 'em, any way I can, yeah... 


They start strumming these chords over the next Verse:  


Em (or E5)        D     C         Em 
E -0--0--0--0---|-0----------------| 
B -0--0--0--0---|-3-----1----------| 
G -x--x--x--x---|-2-----0----------| 
D -2--2--2--2---|-0-----2----------| 
A -2--2--2--2---|-------3----------| 
E -0--0--0--0---|------------------| 

I see a girl in the night with a baby in her hands 
Under an old street light, oh, near a garbage can 
Now she put her kid away, she's gone to get a hit 
She hates her life, and what she's done with it 
That's one more kid, that'll never go to school 
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool 


After this, there is obvioulsy the Chorus: 


   G                 D     C       Em 
E -3---------------|-0----------------| 
B -0---------------|-3-----1----------| 
G -0---------------|-2-----0----------| 
D -0---------------|-0-----2-------2--| 
A -2---------------|-------3-3p2p0-2--| 
E -3---------------|---------------0--| 

Keep on rockin' in the free world (3x) 

Solo: 
over A chord (4x)  

Sort of A Capella: 

There's a thousand points of light for the colored man 
There's a kinder, gentler police man's hand 


Again the Chords: 


Em (or E5)           D     C         Em 
E -0---------------|-0----------------| 
B -0---------------|-3-----1----------| 
G -x---------------|-2-----0----------| 
D -2---------------|-0-----2----------| 
A -2---------------|-------3----------| 
E -0---------------|------------------| 

There's department stores, and toilet paper 
Styrofoam garbage for the Ozone layer 
There's a man of the people, said 'keep hope alive' 
Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive 


Chorus Chords:  


   G                 D     C       Em 
E -3---------------|-0----------------| 
B -0---------------|-3-----1----------| 
G -0---------------|-2-----0----------| 
D -0---------------|-0-----2-------2--| 
A -2---------------|-------3-3p2p0-2--| 
E -3---------------|---------------0--| 

Keep on rockin' in the free world (4x) 


Outro: repeat Riff  


'thanks very much, we will never forget this. The greatest thing ever'  
*drops mic*
	        

Written by Neil Young

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