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The Byrds – Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)
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This song is adapted entirely (except for the last line) from Qoheleth, also called the Book of Ecclesiastes. It was put to music by Pete Seeger in 1959. The song became a
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The Byrds – If You're Gone
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[Verse:] / If I need you, if to me you're everything / If I have you, if I love you just the same / If you're here, the night is likely going to fall / If you're gone, I'll see the
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She thinks you've just begun it
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The girl has just gotten old enough to realize the repression.
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The Byrds – Goin' Back
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[Verse 1] / I think I'm goin' back / To the things I learned so well in my youth / I think I'm returning to / Those days when I was young enough to know the truth / Now there are
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The Byrds – Mr. Tambourine Man
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This is a Bob Dylan song, originally – if just barely. By 1965, Bob Dylan was so universally regarded as a brilliant lyricist with a terrible voice that record studios were in an
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The Byrds – Bugler
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Back when Cattle Creek used to sing / Its waters were sweet and its banks were green / And sunny days went on forever / Me and old Bugler, we'd run wild / Bluetick hound and a
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The Byrds – 5D (Fifth Dimension)
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Oh how is it that I could come out to here / And be still floating / And never hit bottom and keep falling through / Just relaxed and paying attention / All my two dimensional
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The Byrds – Eight Miles High
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“Eight Miles High” is a song by the American rock band The Byrds, written by Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn (a.k.a. Roger McGuinn), and David Crosby and first released as a single on
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The Byrds – You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
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Clouds so swift / Rain won't lift / Gate won't close / Railings froze / Get your mind off wintertime / You ain't goin' nowhere / Whoo-ee ride me high / Tomorrow's the day / My
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The Byrds – You Don't Miss Your Water
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In the beginning you really loved me / But I was blind and I could not see / But when you left me, oh, how I cried / You don't miss your water till your well runs dry / I was a
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The Byrds – I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better
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One of The Byrds first original compositions and undoubtedly their most popular, Gene Clark, who penned and sings lead vocals, takes a sardonic view on romance.
The song was
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The Byrds – Time Between
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“Time Between” is the first song Chris Hillman ever wrote. After his influential session with Hugh Masekela in 1966, Hillman reportedly went straight home and began writing. This
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The Byrds – My Back Pages
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The Byrds loved to cover Bob Dylan: the original band released 13 Dylan covers. “My Back Pages” is their fourth cover from his second album alone. The Byrds typically kept the
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The Byrds – What's Happening?!?!
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Written by guitarist David Crosby, and the first Crosby penned song to appear on a Byrds album, it is an abstract piece of raga-rock, asking questions with no resolution given to
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The Byrds – We'll Meet Again
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We'll meet again / Don't know where / Don't know when / But I know we'll meet again some sunny day / Keep smiling through / Just like you always do / Till the blue skies make the
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The Byrds – Full Circle
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Funny how the circle turns around / First you're up and then you're down again / Though the circle takes what it may give / Each time around it makes it live again / Funny how the
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The Byrds – Natural Harmony
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[Verse 1] / Falling through, me and you / Happening so graciously / Together in natural harmony / Feel so free, wider than me / Seems just like the day of birth / Our first
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The Byrds – Hey Joe
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Hey Joe, where you goin' with that money in your hand? / Hey Joe, where you goin' with that money in your hand? / I'm gonna find my woman, she's runnin' around with some other man
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The Byrds – Mr. Spaceman
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Mr. Spaceman is the third track on The Byrds' 1966 album Fifth Dimension. This song was initially written by The Byrds' lead singer Roger McGuinn as a screenplay on melodrama, but
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The Byrds – Mr. Spaceman
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Mr. Spaceman is the third track on The Byrds' 1966 album Fifth Dimension. This song was initially written by The Byrds' lead singer Roger McGuinn as a screenplay on melodrama, but
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The Byrds – Blue Canadian Rockies
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In the blue Canadian Rockies / Spring is silent through the trees / And the golden poppies are blooming / 'Round the banks of Lake Louise / Now, oh, how my lonely heart is aching
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The Byrds – Renaissance Fair
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“Renaissance Fair” is based on Crosby’s experiences at one of the first Renaissance Pleasure Faires of Southern California in 1966. Chris Hillman’s Indian raga-style bass line
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The Byrds – Lady Friend
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Here it comes again / It's going to happen to me / Here it comes / I should have learned to duck / She's going to say / She's going away / And I will have to live without her and
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The Byrds – Tribal Gathering
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The Notorious Byrd Brothers was a follow-up to the Byrd’s previous two albums, Fifth Dimension and Younger than Yesterday, which featured psychedelic rock and country rock
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The Byrds – Get to You
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Standing in the airport I am waiting for a plane / Goin' east to London, want to be back there again / It's the right time of year, all the trees are autumn brown / But I really
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The Byrds – Wasn't Born to Follow
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The lyrics are rural, simple and graceful, and speak of our need for independence. It’s one of the more country songs the Byrds ever recorded.
One of the most memorable uses of
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The Byrds – Draft Morning
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Sun warm on my face, I hear you / Down below moving slow / And it's morning / Take my time this morning, no hurry / To learn to kill and take the will / From unknown faces / Today
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The Byrds – America's Great National Pastime
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One of America's great national pastimes is drinkin' a Coke / Takin' a smoke, tellin' a joke / One of America's great national pastimes is playin' ball / Takin' it all and thinkin
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The Byrds – Mind Gardens
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“Mind Gardens” is a rather infamous song in The Byrds' history. Though nobody else in the band cared for it, David Crosby fought hard to include it on Younger Than Yesterday
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The Byrds – All I Really Want to Do
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I ain't lookin' to compete with you / Beat or cheat or mistreat you / Simplify you, classify you / Deny, defy or crucify you / All I really want to do / Is, baby be friends with
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The Byrds – Chestnut Mare
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Recorded in June and released as a single in October of 1970, “Chestnut Mare” was co-written by Roger McGuinn and Jacques Levy, a psychiatrist who had hung around with Bob Dylan
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The Byrds – Everybody's Been Burned
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“Everybody’s Been Burned” is an old song David Crosby had been banging around for years prior to this. First written in 1962, two years before The Byrds were even formed, Crosby
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The Byrds – Pale Blue
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Oh I love you in the morning / When the sun comes shinning through / And I love you in the daylight / When the sheets turn pale blue / Well I want to be your lover / And to have
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C.T.A.-102 / We're over here receiving you / Signals tell us that you're there / We can hear them loud and clear
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As McGuinn explained the song’s origin:
At the time we wrote it, I thought it might be possible to make contact with quasars, but later I found out that they were stars which are imploding at a tremendous velocity. They’re condensing and spinning at the same time, and the nucleus is sending out tremendous amounts of radiation, some of which is audible as an electronic impulse on a computerized radio telescope. It comes out in a rhythmic pattern, but the frequency of the signal depends on the size, and originally, the radio astronomers who received these impulses thought they were from a lifeform in space.
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The Byrds – Old John Robertson
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Old John Robertson he wore a Stetson hat / People everywhere would laugh behind his back / No one cared to take any time to find out / What he was all about, fear kept them out
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The Byrds – Here Without You
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[Verse 1] / Daytime just makes me feel lonely / At night I can only dream about you / Girl you're on my mind nearly all of the time / [Chorus] / It's so hard being here without you
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The Byrds – Ballad of Easy Rider
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[Verse 1]The river flows / It flows to the sea / Wherever that river goes / That's where I want to be / [Chorus] / Flow, river, flow / Let your waters wash down / Take me from this
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The Byrds – I See You
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[Verse:] / I see you, under there behind your hair everywhere / I see you / I see you, turned on eyes can't tell lies, empathise / I see you / Warm sliding sun through the cave of
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The Byrds – Nashville West
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[Instrumental]
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The Byrds – Pretty Polly
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There used to be a gambler who courted all around / There used to be a gambler who courted all around / He courted pretty Polly, such beauty never been found / "Pretty Polly
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The Byrds – Hungry Planet
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I'm a hungry planet / I had a youthful face / They were in a hurry / To go to outer space / They needed bombs and tungsten / Ore and iron too / So they climbed and they dug and
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The Byrds (Ft. Woody Guthrie) – Pretty Boy Floyd
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Well gather round me children, a story I will tell / About Pretty Boy Floyd the outlaw, Oklahoma knew him well / Was in the town of Shawnee on a Saturday afternoon / His wife
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