• Song:

    Journey Through The Past

  • Artist:

    Neil Young

  • Album:

    Time Fades Away

I worked this out by ear from the 1971 BBC Sessions, and 1971 Massey Hall. The 
other chords for this song were wrong so I thought I'd do this.
A very simple song, which follows the same pattern all the way through:

Intro:     D (xx0232@1)name="chord_x02220@1">A G/ (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)name="chord_x02220@1">A D (xx0232@1)          
           D (xx0232@1)               A (x02220@1)             G (320003@1)              DWhen (xx0232@1)the winter rains come pouring down, on that new home of mine

D (xx0232@1)              A (x02220@1)           DWill (xx0232@1)you think of me, and wonder if I'm fine?

D (xx0232@1)               A (x02220@1)                 G (320003@1)               DWill (xx0232@1)your restless heart come back to mine, on a Journey through the Past

D (xx0232@1)             A (x02220@1)               DWill (xx0232@1)I still be in your eyes, and on your mind?

Break:    D (xx0232@1)name="chord_x02220@1">A G/ (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)name="chord_x02220@1">A D (xx0232@1)D (xx0232@1)           A (x02220@1)           G (320003@1)                DNow (xx0232@1)I'm going back to Canada, on a Journey through the Past 
       
       D (xx0232@1)                 A (x02220@1)      DAnd (xx0232@1)I won't be back til' February comes

D (xx0232@1)                     A (x02220@1)                     G (320003@1)           DI (xx0232@1)will stay with you if you'll stay with me, said the fiddler to the drum

D (xx0232@1)                   A (x02220@1)                DAnd (xx0232@1)we'll keep good time on a Journey through the Past

Break: D A G / D A D

D (xx0232@1)              A (x02220@1)              G (320003@1)             D (xx0232@1)
When the winter rains come pouring down, on that new home of mine

D (xx0232@1)             A (x02220@1)               DWill (xx0232@1)I still be in your eyes, and on your mind?

D (xx0232@1)             A (x02220@1)               DWill (xx0232@1)I still be in your eyes, and on your mind?

Neil plays this on piano, and there are a couple of licks he does in here such as:

- for the "G" in the into he is hitting a D and G repeatedly, then drop the G to 
an F#, so:      D G / D F#   (this is right above middle C)

- on the "D" for the intro and parts in the verses, he is hitting a D triad, so: D 
F# A, then moving the top two notes up to G and B, then back down
ex. D F# A / D G B / D F# A   (this is below middle C)
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