Like A Hurricane | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
| Am | Am | G | G |
| Fmaj7 | Fmaj7 | Em7 | G |
Verse 1
| Am | Am | G | G |
Once I thought I saw you in a crowded hazy bar.
| Fmaj7 | Fmaj7 | Em7 | G |
Dancing on the light from star to star.
| Am | Am | G | G |
Far across the moonbeam, I know that’s who you are.
| Fmaj7 | Fmaj7 | Em7 | G |
I saw your brown eyes turning once to fire.
Chorus 1
| C G | F G |
You are like a hurricane.
| C G | F G |
There’s calm in your eye.
| C G | F G |
And I’m gettin’ blown away.
| F | F (Fsus2 F) | (half time feel)
To somewhere safer where the feeling stays.
| F | F | (half time feel)
I want to love you but I’m getting blown away.
Instrumental 1
| Am | Am | G | G |
| Fmaj7 | Fmaj7 | Em7 | G |
Verse 2
| Am | Am | G | G |
I am just a dreamer but you are just a dream.
| Fmaj7 | Fmaj7 | Em7 | G |
And you could have been anyone to me.
| Am | Am | G | G |
Before that moment you touched my lips, that perfect feeling when time just slips.
| Fmaj7 | Fmaj7 | Em7 | G |
Away between us and our foggy trip.
Chorus 2
| C G | F G |
You are like a hurricane.
| C G | F G |
There’s calm in your eye.
| C G | F G |
And I’m gettin’ blown away.
| F | F (Fsus2 F) | (half time feel)
To somewhere safer where the feeling stays.
| F | F | (half time feel)
I want to love you but I’m getting blown away.
Instrumental 2
| Am | Am | G | G |
| Fmaj7 | Fmaj7 | Em7 | G |
Blown away.
Solo
||: Am | Am | G | G |
| Fmaj7 | Fmaj7 | Em7 | G :|| x6
Verse 3
| Am | Am | G | G |
You are just a dreamer, and I am just a dream.
| Fmaj7 | Fmaj7 | Em7 | G |
You could have been anyone to me.
| Am | Am | G | G |
Before that moment you touched my lips, that perfect feeling when time just slips.
| Fmaj7 | Fmaj7 | Em7 | G |
Away between us on our foggy trip.
Chorus 3
| C G | F G |
You are like a hurricane.
| C G | F G |
There’s calm in your eye.
| C G | F G |
And I’m gettin’ blown away.
| F | F (Fsus2 F) | (half time feel)
To somewhere safer where the feeling stays.
| F | F | (half time feel)
I want to love you but I’m getting blown away.
Outro
||: Am | Am | G | G |
| Fmaj7 | Fmaj7 | Em7 | G :|| repeat forever
Like A Hurricane chords and progressions
Once you start playing Heart Of Gold’s chords, it makes sense why Neil wouldn’t stop soloing, this is perfect Am, solo-all-day-long territory!
Here’s the verse progression which is also the intro, instrumental, and solo:
||: Am | Am | G | G |
| Fmaj7 | Fmaj7 | Em7 | G :||
That’s VI – V – IV – III – V using Roman Numerals. You could target chord notes, just like the melody does so well but really, you wanna just blanket scale here with A Aeolian.
Speaking of that melody, let’s look at how the verse targets all those perfect intervals, after all, this is why Like A Hurricane is so memorable and therefore a hit!
As you can see below the TAB, the strong notes (Root, 3rds, 5ths) are the most prominent.
- In bar 1, the 4th is a passing note, the 2 is tension. Everything else is release notes and therefore melodic.
- Bar 3 uses the 4th as a tension note, 5 and 3 are release notes.
- Bar 5 uses the 7th as a tension note although it is part of the chord. 6 is tension, and 5 and 3 are release notes.
- For bar 6, #4 is tension, and 5 is the release.
- The last three notes are the most interesting. Starting on maj7 on the last beat of bar 6, this is Em‘s root. But we move down to the tension of b7, release it to the m3rd of Em, then finally, release that to the root of G as the chord change but the note stays.
Neil Young – What a songwriter!
Like A Hurricane chorus chords
The chorus feels a bit throwaway, compared to that perfectly crafted verse. It goes I – V – IV – V on repeat, like this:
||: C G | F G :||
The lyrics are great and the halftime feel over the upcoming four bars of F is amazing, and then we’re back to that fabulous verse progression again and it’s time to solo so I guess all is forgiven.
Although, maybe I’m missing a final trick here. That I – V – IV – V, happy-clappy sounding chorus may be just what’s needed to set up the impact of the halftime F, and the meditative verse.
At the end of the day, I think we can all agree that Neil probably knows what’s best. Everytime I transcribe one of his tunes I’m left feeling like I’ve just been around true greatness.
Like A Hurricane chords | Related pages
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Neil Young
Neil Young started out with Buffalo Springfield, briefly joined Crosby, Stills & Nash, and collaborated with Pearl Jam but is best known for his solo career.
His best tunes include Harvest Moon, Heart Of Gold, Old Man, The Needle And The Damage Done, My My, Hey Hey, and Like A Hurricane.
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