Buffalo Springfied – Last Time Around [1968]

003

Year Released: 1968
Record Company: ATCO

1. On the Way Home (2:25)
2. It’s So Hard to Wait (2:03)
3. Pretty Girl Why (2:24)
4. Four Days Gone (2:53)
5. Carefree Country Day (2:35)
6. Special Care (3:30)
7. In the Hour of Not Quite Rain (3:45)
8. Questions (2:52)
9. I Am a Child (2:15)
10. Merry-Go-Round (2:02)
11. Uno Mundo (2:00)
12. Kind Woman (4:10)
 

On The Way Home

When the dream came
I held my breath with my eyes closed
I went insane
Like a smoke ring day when the wind blows
Now I won’t be back till later on
If I do come back at all
But you know me, and I miss you now
In a strange game
I saw myself as you knew me
When the change came
And you had a chance to see through me
Though the other side is just the same
You can tell my dream is real
Because I love you, can you see me now
Though we rush ahead to save our time
We are only what we feel
And I love you, can you feel it now

 It’s So Hard To Wait

I just can’t seem to get movin’
Love me enough to begin
And I’ll never forget you
I hope that you care
More than a little for me
It’s so hard to wait
If I should stand and stare
Don’t be alarmed at me
It’s so hard to wait
I just can’t seem to get movin’
Love me enough to begin
And I’ll never forget you

 

Pretty Girl Why

Like the ghost of someone near
She comes to haunt me in my sleep
Still unable to sincerely
Get her heart away for keeps

Pretty Girl why?
Pretty girl why not love me?
Pretty girl why?
Pretty girl why?

There she leaves me twice as lonely
As I was but yesterday
Keeping such a hold upon my thoughts
So near yet far away

Pretty Girl why?
Pretty girl why not love me?
Pretty girl why?
Pretty girl why?

The minstrel boy has gone to war now
Burdened with his father’s sword
Still she doesn’t see how she can
Give him peace amidst the horror

Pretty Girl why?
Pretty girl why not love me?
Pretty girl why?
Pretty girl why?

 

Four Days Gone

I met two kind people on the road
I was parched and dry from the cold
I’ve been traveling four days and nights, sir
and I do want to thank you for the ride
and the soup your wife made tasted fine
if it’s all the same, I’ll be on my way at the next turn
’cause I’m four days gone into running

And my baby is waiting, I hope, sir
After fifteen trucks and an old Ford
and the government madness… I ran away
and I to say, I can’t tell you my name
’cause I’m four days gone into running

I can’t even go home
Take my baby and run
I got reason to live
I got things I can give

And I’m four days gone into running

 

Carefree Country Day

I get up in the morning with a cock-a-doodle-do,
I get myself together if and when I chose.
I’m just buckin time, without a reason or ryme,
Oh what a wonderful way,
to spend a carefree country day
I got to have it that way.

I best get all my chores done, got some friends a commin’ by.
There’s a lot of country livin in just trying to get by,
I’m just buckin time, without a reason or ryme,
Oh what a wonderful way,
to spend a carefree country day
I got to have it that way.

I make myself a livin’ off a haulin’ on junk,
A man can live on thrivin from searchin’ the dump.
I’m just buckin time, without a reason or ryme,
Oh what a wonderful way,
to spend a carefree country day
I’ve got to have it that way.

 

Special Care

Ou’ there in the window,
Lookin’ at me, do you think I’m,
Blowing’ my cool, playin’ the fool?

You there on the corner,
Starin’ at me, do you think I’m,
Trouble? Would you like to shoot me down?

And it’s time for all that Special Care to be taken,
To make you aware of the forsaken,
If you don’t care then we’ll come and burn your house down.

Come on over sometime and talk about how all men are created equal,
Only some they mo’ equal than others.

 

The Hour Of Not Quite Rain

In the hour of not quite rain
when the fog was fingertip high
The moon hung suspended
in a singular sky

Deeply and beyond seeing
not wishing to intrude
Bathed in its own reflection
the water mirrored the moon

The tumbling birds have now sobered
from the leaves of their nursery
Like shadowy, quiet children
watching sleepily

 

 Questions

Where are we going love?
What are you feelin’?
Now that I’ve caught my love
My head is reelin’,

With the questions of a thousand dreams,
What you do and what you see.
Come on lover, talk to me.

When I was on my own
Chasin’ you down,
What was it made you run.
Tryin’ to get around

The questions of a thousand dreams,
What you do and what you see.
Come on lover, talk to me.

Now that we’ve found each other
Where do we go now?
I’d like to know what you’re thinkin’.
Answer me slowly now

The questions of a thousand dreams
What you do and what you see.
Come on lover, talk to me, yeah.

I Am A Child

I am a child, I’ll last a while
You can’t conceive of the pleasure in my smile
You hold my hand, rough up my hair
It’s lots of fun to have you there

I gave to you, now, you give to me
I’d like to know what you learned
The sky is blue and so is the sea
What is the color, when black is burned?
What is the color?

You are a man, you understand
You pick me up and you lay me down again
You make the rules, you say what’s fair
It’s lots of fun to have you there

I gave to you, now, you give to me
I’d like to know what you learned
The sky is blue and so is the sea
What is the color, when black is burned?
What is the color?

I am a child, I’ll last a while
You can’t conceive of the pleasure in my smile

 

Merry-Go-Round

Upside down on a merry-go-round
Now just look at me
Spreading your eyes to see you standing for me
It’s a lover you see

Not just to anyone
Not just to fee
Someone you can come maple leave

What in the world did you do
To make me love just you?
What did you do to me?
What you did to me

This time next time
Which ever let be
There’s something I can’t deny
I’m telling you now
Your love is something to me
It’s like a sweet lullaby
A melody that could only imply
Loving you seems to me worth a try

What in the world did you do
To make me love just you?
What did you do to me?
What you did to me
What did you do to me?

 

 Uno Mundo

Uno mundo, somebody’s dreaming
Uno mundo, plansible scheming
Uno mundo, isn’t he reading
Uno mundo, just the same

Uno mundo, Asia is screaming
Uno mundo, Africa’s seething
Uno mundo, America bleeding
Uno mundo, just the same

Uno mundo
Uno mundo
Uno mundo
Uno mundo, just the same

Uno mundo, no me enganes
Uno mundo, somos equales
Uno mundo, porque lo ames
Uno mundo, just the same
Opa!

Uno mundo, am I speaking?
Uno mundo, how I’m keeping
Uno mundo, additional sleeping
Uno mundo, just the same

Uno mundo
Uno mundo
Uno mundo
Uno mundo
Uno mundo

 

Kind Woman

I got a good reason for loving you
It’s an old fashioned sign
I kinda get the feelin’ like mmm you know when
I fell in love the first time.

Kind woman
Won’t you love me tonight
The look in your eyes

Kind woman
Don’t leave me lonely tonight
Please say it’s all right

Remember once before you’re hearing
The old folks say
Love’s an ageless old rhyme
But now a days you know the sayin’ depends so much on
The kind of woman that you find

Kind woman
Won’t you love me tonight?
The look in your eyes

Kind woman
Don’t leave me lonely tonight
Aah you say it’s all right

[Instrumental Break]

Kind woman
Won’t you love me tonight?
The look in your eyes

Kind woman
Don’t leave me lonely tonight
Please say it’s all right

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Neil Young: guitar, harmonica, vocal
Stephen Stills: guitar, piano, organ, vibes, bass, handclaps, percussion, vocal
Richie Furay: guitar, vocal
Dewey Martin: drums
Bruce Palmer: bass
Jim Messina: bass, vocal

and

Jimmy Carstein: drums
Richard Davis: bass
Jim Fielder: bass
Gary Marker: bass
Buddy Miles: drums
Jeremy Stuart: harpsichord, calliope, bells
Rusty Young: pedal steel guitar

Recorded at Columbia Recording Studio and Sunset Sound, Hollywood, and at Atlantic Studios, New York, Feb. 1967-May, 1968

Original tracks produced by Richie Furay, Jim Messina, Stephen Stills, and Neil Young

Album produced by Jim Messina

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