Monday, December 02, 2002

Neil Young:

"Sugarbush Woman"

[Three-chord power-chord grinding guitar intro]

Out in the woods by a lake near the river
She waits on top of a mountain
She’s got a sweet sweet sweet syrup to deliver
Big maples down by the fountain

She’s got hair that looks like Sacajawea
Her jacket has some sort of fringe
In the chapel she saw me and walked up to me-uh
And my fillings started to twinge

She’s my sugarbush sugarbush sugarbush woman
She’s my sugarbush sugarbush girl
She’s my sugarbush sugarbush sugarbush woman
She’s my sugarbush sugarbush girl

[One-note guitar solo, four minutes in duration]

Now I’m just an old kid, but I’m heading south
Hope I can deliver the lumber
In the starlight her candy just melts in my mouth
Ontario, here comes my cucumber

She’s my sugarbush sugarbush sugarbush woman
She’s my sugarbush sugarbush girl
She’s my sugarbush sugarbush sugarbush woman
She’s my sugarbush sugarbush girl
Neil Young:

"Pilgrim's Progress"
(from Neil Young's brief 'vegetarian period')

Pilgrim landed on the shores of fire
Pilgrim kicked the tires on the coast of California
Pilgrim killed the turkey
and hung him on the wire

They killed the sow
they killed the pecker
they killed the turkey
on the blood's red ground

Hey, Pilgrim -
leave those bloods alone!

Pilgrim burnt the land in the furnaces of iron
Pilgrim and the Aggies, they built a funeral pyre
then they threw in the gobblers
threw in the Indians too

They killed the sow
they killed the pecker
they killed the turkey
on the blood's red ground

Hey, Pilgrim -
leave those bloods alone!
Leave those bloods alone!
Leave those bloods alone!
Hey, Columbus,
leave those bloods alone!