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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Down by the River
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Neil Young claims to have written this song, along with “Cinnamon Girl” and “Cowgirl in the Sand”, while delirious in bed in Topanga Canyon with a 103° F (39 °C) fever, as
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Neil Young – Down by the River (Live Young Shakespeare)
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[Verse 1] / Be on my side, I'll be on your side / There is no reason for you to hide / It's so hard for me staying here all alone / When you could be taking me for a ride / [Pre-
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Medley: The Loner/Cinnamon Girl/ Down by the River
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He's a perfect stranger / Like a cross of himself and a fox / He's a feeling arranger / And a changer of the ways he talks / He's the unforeseen danger / The keeper of the key to
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Neil Young – Down by the River (Live at the Cellar Door 1970)
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[Verse 1] / Be on my side. I'll be on your side / There is no reason for you to hide / It's so hard for me staying here all alone / When you could be taking me for a ride / [Pre-
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Áron András – Down by the River (Neil Young)
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Be on my side, I'll be on your side / There is no reason for you to hide / It's so hard for me staying here all alone / When you could be taking me for a ride / She could drag me
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Low & Dirty Three – Down By The River
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Be on my side and I'll be on your side / There is no reason for you to hide / It's so hard for me staying here all alone / When you could be taking me for a ride / You take my hand
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Indigo Girls – Down By the River
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[Verse 1] / Be on my side, I'll be on your side / There is no reason for you to hide / It's so hard staying here all alone / You could be taking me for a ride / [Pre-Chorus] / (Ooh
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Puss n Boots – Down by the River
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Be on my side, I'll be on your side, baby / There is no reason for you to hide / It's so hard for me, staying here all alone / When you could be taking me for a ride / She could
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Jill Sobule (Ft. John Doe (X)) – Down By The River
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[Verse 1: Jill Sobule] / Be on my side / I'll be on your side / There's no reason for you to hide / It's so hard for me, staying here all alone / When you could be taking me for a
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Neil Young – Ohio (Live Carnegie Hall 1970)
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[Verse 1] / Tin soldiers and Nixon comin' / We're finally on our own / This summer I hear the drummin' / Four dead in Ohio / [Chorus] / Gotta get down to it / Soldiers are cutting
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Neil Young – See the Sky About to Rain (Live Carnegie Hall 1970)
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[Chorus] / See the sky about to rain / Broken clouds and rain / Locomotive, pull the train / Whistle blowin' through my brain / Signals curlin' on an open plain / Rollin' down the
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Neil Young – Don’t Let it Bring You Down (Live Young Shakespeare)
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[Verse 1] / Old man sittin' by the side of the road / With the lorries rolling by / Blue moon sinkin' from the weight of the load / And the buildings scrape the sky / Cold wind
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Neil Young – Tell Me Why (Live Carnegie Hall 1970)
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[Verse 1] / Sailing heart ships through broken harbors / Out on the waves in the night / Still the searcher must ride the dark horse / Racing alone in his fright / [Chorus] / Tell
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Neil Young – Sugar Mountain (Live)
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Oct 1, 2021 ... 1. Down by the River (Live Carnegie Hall 1970). 2. Cinnamon Girl (Live Carnegie Hall 1970). 3. I Am a Child ( ...
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Neil Young – Don't Let It Bring You Down
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[Verse 1] / Old man lying by the side of the road / With the lorries rolling by / Blue moon sinking from the weight of the load / And the buildings scrape the sky / Cold wind
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Neil Young – Don't Let It Bring You Down (Live at the Cellar Door 1970)
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[Verse 1] / Old man lying by the side of the road / With the lorries rolling by / Blue moon sinking from the weight of the load / And the buildings scrape the sky / Cold wind
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Neil Young – Dance Dance Dance (Live Carnegie Hall 1970)
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[Verse 1] / Never thought love had a rainbow on it, used to think a cloud was a nightmare / That was up until when I first met you, now I go around hoping you care / [Chorus
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Neil Young – Don’t Let It Bring You Down (Second Pressing)
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The second pressing version of “Don’t Let It Bring You Down” appears on Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 as a hidden track, and the streaming services do not include it on the album (nor
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Neil Young – Soldier (Remix)
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[Verse 1] / Soldier, your eyes / They shine like the sun / I wonder why / Soldier, your eyes shine like the sun / I wonder why / [Verse 2] / Jesus, I saw you / Walking on the river
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The Undisputed Truth – Down By The River
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Be on my side, I'll be on your side, baby / There is no reason for you to hide / It's so hard for me staying here all alone / When you could be taking me for a ride / Yeah, she
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Neil Young – Down, Down, Down
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Come to see her in the river? / She'll be there to wave to you / In the hope that you'll forgive her / She will join you there / Find out that now was / The answer to answers
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Neil Young – After the Gold Rush (Live Carnegie Hall 1970)
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[Verse 1] / Well I dreamed I saw the knights in armor comin' / Sayin' something about a queen / There were peasants singin' and drummers drummin' / The archer split the tree
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Cinnamon Girl
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A punchy electric number, in which Neil yearns for an idealized trope of a woman (something which, itself, would become a trope in his lyrics), “Cinnamon Girl” is the first song on
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Neil Young – When You Dance I Can Really Love (Second Pressing)
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The second pressing version of “When You Dance I Can Really Love” appears on Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 as a hidden track, and is not included on the album by streaming services.
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Neil Young – Sugar Mountain (Live Carnegie Hall 1970)
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[False start #1] / [Intro] / (You can all sing along on this song if you want, 'cause it's really loud in here.) / [Chorus] / Oh to live on Sugar Mountain / With the barkers and
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Neil Young – On the Way Home (Live Carnegie Hall 1970)
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[Verse 1] / When the dream came, I held my breath with my eyes closed / I went insane like a smoke ring day when the wind blows / Now I won't be back 'til later on if I do come
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Bruce Springsteen – The River
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The title track to his fifth studio album, Springsteen’s “The River” invokes his sister’s early life with her husband, Mickey. Even if the instrumental (i.e. the use of the
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Buddy Miles – Down By the River
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Ooh, ooh... / Be on my side / I'll be on your side, baby / There is no reason / For you to hide / It's so hard for me / Staying here all alone / When you could be / Taking me for a
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Slip Away
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[Verse 1] / She lives in the TV sky, she lives in such pain / She rides in a bulletproof stretch limousine / The smoke in the barroom nights, the faces in the window / The sound of
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Áron András – Oldman (Neil Young)
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Old man, look at my life / I'm a lot like you were / Old man, look at my life / I'm a lot like you were / Old man, look at my life / Twenty-four, and there's so much more / Live
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Neil Young (Ft. Comrie Smith) – Casting Me Away from You
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We used to laugh and play games together / We found things to do in stormy weather / But now I find you're leaving me behind / Casting me away from you / I try to tell myself it
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Pere Ubu – Down by the River II
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Down by the river / Corn is creeping / Cry for my lover / Lover's sleeping / Bad as it gets / Getting worse / I want to run / Had to learn to crawl / The house on fire / The treaty
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Neil Young (Ft. The Stray Gators) – Bad Fog of Loneliness (Harvest Outtake)
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“Bad Fog of Loneliness” is an outtake from the [Harvest] sessions. The studio version was recorded on February 6, 1971. The song was also performed live by Young in 1970-1971 as
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Birds
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This version of “Birds” was recorded on August 3, 1969 at the initial sessions with Crazy Horse for After the Gold Rush. This take did not appear on the album but was released as
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Dance Dance Dance
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This is an outtake from the After the Gold Rush sessions, recorded in Hollywood on October 17, 1969. “Dance Dance Dance” would be re-recorded with Graham Nash in February 1971 as
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Neil Young – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Single Version)
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Neil Young first recorded “Everybody Knows This is Nowhere” in 1968 during the sessions for his first eponymous solo album. It was released as a promotional 45rpm single the
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Everybody's Alone
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This is an outtake from the After the Gold Rush sessions, and was recorded on August 4, 1969. Young would try it again four years later with the Santa Monica Flyers as part of the
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Slip Away (Live)
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[Verse 1] / She lives in the TV sky, she lives in such pain / She rides in a bulletproof stretch limousine / The smoke in the barroom nights, the faces in the window / The sound of
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Neil Young – Cowgirl in the Sand (Live) [Royce Hall 1971]
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[Intro] / This is a song I wrote about a dream I had / I was walkin' down this beach / [Verse 1] / Hello, cowgirl in the sand / Is this place at your command? / Can I stay here for
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