Teach your children well, Their father's hell did slowly go by, And feed them on your dreams The one they pick's the one you'll know by Don't you ever ask them why If they told you, you would cry, So just look at them and sigh And know they love you. Also remember that Jerry Garcia played steel on that track.
The Beach Boys inspired everyone else to come up with pop
symphonies. I love that this one from Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young is
so thoroughly country – not that Stills and Young hadn’t been doing this
sort of thing during their time with The Buffalo Springfield.
The
other thing I love is how Neil Young seems like your average
hitting-on-the-waitress creep until he unleashes these two verses:
Find out that now was the answer to answers
That you gave later
She did the things that we both did before now
But who forgave her?
If I could stand to see her crying
I would tell her not to care
When she learns of all your lying
Will she join you there?
It seems that he’s fighting some genuine
scumbag, trying to get the woman out of a dangerously-toxic
relationship. That business where the scumbag refuses to forgive the
woman for cheating on him after he cheats on her? The pathological
lying? Straight-up emotional abuse.
This is Crosby, Stills, Nash &
Young with “Country Girl”.
