Genius Meanings
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Neil Young – Sugar Mountain
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Written by Young on his 19th birthday in 1964, the song is a lament to the loss of youth. (Young didn’t record the song until 1968.) It had such an effect on Joni Mitchell that she
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Louise Post – Sugar Mountain
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[Chorus] / Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain / With the barkers and the colored balloons / You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain / Though you're thinking that you're leaving there too
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Neil Young – Sugar Mountain Samples
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See all of “Sugar Mountain” by Neil Young’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Jack River – Sugar Mountain
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[Chorus] / Oh to live on Sugar Mountain / With the barkers and the colored balloons / You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain / Though you're thinking that / You're leavin' there too
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Neil Young – Sugar Mountain (Stereo)
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This is the best known performance of “Sugar Mountain” that was recorded on November 10, 1968 at Canterbury House in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was subsequently released as the b-side
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Neil Young – Sugar Mountain Covers
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See all of “Sugar Mountain” by Neil Young’s covers
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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 – Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing (Live at Canterbury House 1968)
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[Verse 1] / Hey, who's that stomping all over my face? / Where's that silhouette I'm trying to trace? / Who's putting sponge in the bells I once rung? / Taking my gypsy before she'
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Neil Young (Ft. Comrie Smith) – There Goes My Babe
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[Verse 1] / The end has come / My sky has lost it's sun / The harm is done / She was the only one / [Bridge 1] / There goes my babe / There goes what might have been / There goes
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Neil Young – Comes a Time (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Comes a time when you're driftin' / Comes a time when you settle down / Comes a light, feelings liftin' / Lift that baby right up off the ground / [Chorus] / Oh, this
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Sea of Madness
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How can I bring you / To the sea of madness / I love you so much / It's gonna bring me sadness / I've never seen you / Through these eyes before / Now I don't believe it / I think
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Neil Young – Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing (Elektra Audition 1965)
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[Verse 1] / Hey, who's that stomping all over my face? / Where's that silhouette I'm trying to trace? / Who's putting sponge in the bells I once rung? / Taking my gypsy before she'
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Neil Young (Ft. Graham Nash) – War Song
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“War Song” was written and released in support of the 1972 presidential campaign of George McGovern, who was running against incumbent Richard Nixon as the Democratic Party nominee
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Neil Young – No One Seems To Know (Live 11/7/76)
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[Chorus] / Once I was in love / Now it seems that time / Is better spent / Searching than in finding / But no one seems to know / [Verse] / So don't say you lose / Don't say you
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Buffalo Springfield – Sell Out
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[Verse 1] / Five cheat card thief, misled skinhead / Tell me where it's at? / Is it cool to bring it up again? / Will I blow my cat? / Misplaced tinselface, weekend pretend / Am I
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Neil Young – Ohio (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Tin soldiers and Nixon coming / We're finally on our own / This summer, I hear the drumming / Four dead in Ohio / [Chorus] / Gotta get down to it / Soldiers are cutting
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Neil Young – The Needle and the Damage Done (Live)
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[Verse 1] / I caught you knockin' at my cellar door / I love you, baby, can I have some more? / Oh, oh, the damage done / [Verse 2] / I hit the city and I lost my band / I watched
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Neil Young (Ft. Graham Nash) – Dance Dance Dance
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This is an outtake from the London Harvest sessions, recorded on February 25, 1971. “Dance Dance Dance” was first recorded with Crazy Horse in October 1969 while recording After
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Powderfinger (Live Rust)
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[Verse 1] / Look out, Mama, there's a white boat coming up the river / With a big red beacon and a flag and a man on the rail / I think you'd better call John / It don't look like
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Lotta Love (Live Rust)
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[Intro] / La la la la la la la la la / Ooh ooh / Ooh ooh / [Verse 1] / It's gonna take a lotta love (It takes a lotta love) / To change the way things are / It's gonna take a lotta
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