Thursday, March 28, 2013

ATF: First Lamentations

This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions that you might dare to make.  I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [The Band]


The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
The Band
Virgil Caine is the name
And I served on the Danville train
‘Til Stoneman’s cavalry came
And tore up the tracks again
In the winter of ‘65
We were hungry
Just barely alive
By May the tenth
Richmond had fell
It’s a time
I remember oh so well

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringin’
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singin’
They went
Na
Na na
Na na na
Na na na na
Na na na na na

Back with my wife in Tennessee
When one day she called to me
Virgil quick come see
There goes a Robert E. Lee
Now I don’t mind choppin’ wood
And I don’t care if the money’s no good
Ya take what ya need
And ya leave the rest
But they should have never taken
The very best

The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringin’
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin’
They went
Na
Na na
Na na na
Na na na na
Na na na na na

Like my father before me
I’m a workin’ man
And like my brother before me
Who took a rebel stand
He was just eighteen
Proud and brave
But a Yankee
Laid him in his grave
I swear by the mud below my feet
You can’t raise a Caine back up
When he’s in defeat

The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringin’
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin’
They went
Na
Na na
Na na na
Na na na na
Na na na na na

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringin’
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singin’
They went
Na
Na na
Na na na
Na na na na
Na na na na na



After The Gold Rush
Neal Young
Well I dreamed I saw the knights in armor comin’
Sayin’ something about a queen
There were peasants singin’
And drummers drummin’
And the archer split the tree
There was a fanfare blowin’
To the sun
That was floating on the breeze
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the nineteen seventies
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the nineteen seventies

I was lyin’ in a burned out basement
With the full moon in my eyes
I was hopin’ for replacement
When the sun burst thru the sky
There was a band playin’
In my head
And I felt like getting high
I was thinkin’ about
What a friend had said
I was hopin’ it was a lie
Thinkin’ about
What a friend had said
I was hopin’ it was a lie

Well I dreamed I saw the silver space ships flyin’
In the yellow haze of the sun
There were children cryin’
And colors flyin’
All around the chosen ones
All in a dream
All in a dream
The loading had begun
Flyin’ Mother Nature's
Silver seed
To a new home in the sun
Flyin’ Mother Nature's
Silver seed
To a new home

Lyrics From: [A-Z Lyrics Universe]

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6 comments:

  1. All hail the north!

    Two good choices there mate!

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  2. Good choices. I love Neil Young's "Harvest Moon"...I played that cassette to its death when I first bought it back in the early Nineties.

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  3. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Adullamite!!! Or the south, in your case--right?

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  4. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Lee!!! I can usually only take Neil Young in small doses because of the quality of his singing, but he does have some really great songs!

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  5. my connection is a bit slow so videos don't play well but from reading the lyrics I don't think I know that Neil Young song

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  6. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Ann!!! I think you will recognize it right away after you can hear a little bit of it.

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