Neil Young – Harvest [1972]
Year Released: 1972
Record Company: Reprise
1. Out on the Weekend 4:35
2. Harvest 3:03
3. A Man Needs a Maid 4:00
4. Heart of Gold 3:05
5. Are You Ready for the Country? 3:21
6. Old Man 3:22
7. There’s a World 3:00
8. Alabama 4:02
9. The Needle and the Damage Done 2:00
10. Words (Between the Lines of Age) 6:42
OUT ON THE WEEKEND
Think I’ll pack it in and buy a pick-up
Take it down to L.A.
Find a place to call my own and try to fix up.
Start a brand new day.
The woman I’m thinking of – she loved me all up
But I’m so down today
She’s so fine she’s in my mind.
I hear her callin’.
See the lonely boy, out on the weekend
Tryig to make it pay.
Can’t relate to joy, he tries to speak and
Can’t begin to say.
She got pictures on the wall-
They make me look up
From her big brass bed.
Now I’m running down the road trying to stay up
Somewhere in her head.
HARVEST
Did I saw you down in a young girl’s town
With your mother in so much pain?
I was almost there at the top of the stairs
With her screamin’ in the rain
Did she wake you up to tell you that
It was only a change of plan?
Dream up, Dream up, Let me fill your cup
With the promise of a man.
Did I see you wallking with the boys
Though it was not hand in hand?
And was some black face in a lonely place
When you could understand?
Did she wake you up to tell you that
It was only a change of plan?
Dream up, Dream up, Let me fill your cup
With the promise of a man.
Will I see you give more than I can take?
Will I only harvest some?
As the days fly past will we lose our grasp
Or fuse it in the sun?
Did she wake you up to tell you that
It was only a change of plan?
Dream up, Dream up, Let me fill your cup
With the promise of a man.
A MAN NEEDS A MAID
I was thinking that maybe I’d get a maid
Find a place nearby for her to stay.
Just someone to keep my house clean –
Fix my meals and go away.
A maid – A man needs a maid.
To give a love, you gotta live a love.
To live a love, you gotta be “part of.”
When will I see you again?
A while ago somewhere I don’t know when
I was watching a movie with a friend.
I fell in love with the actress.
She was playing a part that I could understand –
A maid – A man needs a maid.
When will I see you again?
HEART OF GOLD
I want to live
I want to give
I’ve been a miner for a heart of gold.
It’s these expressions I never give
That keep me searching for a heart of gold
And I’m getting old.
I’ve been to Hollywood
I’ve been to Redwood
I crossed the ocean for a heart of gold
I’ve been in my mind, it’s such a fine line
That keeps me searching for a Heart of Gold
And I’m getting old.
ARE YOU READY FOR THE COUNTRY
Slipping and sliding and playing domino
Lefting and then Righting; it’s not a crime you know.
You gotta tell your story boy, before it’s time to go.
Are you ready for the country because it’s time to go?
I was talkin’ to the preacher – said God was on my side
Then I ran to the hangman – he said “it’s time to die”
You gotta tell your story boy.
You know the reason why.
Are you ready for the Country –
Because it’s time to go?
OLD MAN
Old man look at my life, I’m a lot like you were
Old man look at my life –
twenty four and there’s so much more
Live alone in a paradies
that makes me think of two
Love lost, such a cost,
Give me things that don’t get lost.
Like a coin that won’t get tossed
Rolling home to you.
Old man look at my life
I’m a lot like you
I need someone to love me the whole day through
Ah, one look in my eyes and you can tell that’s true.
Lullabys, look in your eyes,
Run around the same old town.
Doesn’t mean that much to me to mean that much to you
I’ve been first and last
Look at how the time goes past.
But I’m all alone at last.
Rolling home to you.
THERE’S A WORLD
There’s a world you’re living in
No one else has your part
All God’s children in the wind
Take it in and blow hard.
Look around you – Has it found you
walking down the avenue?
See what it brings – Could be good things
in the air for you
We are leaving. We are gone.
Come with us to all alone.
Never worry. Never moan.
We will leave you all alone.
In the mountains, in the cities,
you can see the dream.
Look around you. Has it found you?
Is it what it seems?
There’s a world you’re living in
No one else has your part
All God’s children in the wind
Take it in and blow hard.
ALABAMA
Oh Alabama; the devil fools with the best laid plan.
Swing low Alabama
You got spare change – you got to feel strange
And now the moment is all that it meant.
Alabama – you got the weight on your shoulders
That’s breaking your back.
You cadillac has got a wheel in the ditch
And a wheel on the track
Oh Alabama, Banjos paying through the broken glass
Windows down in Alabama.
See the old folks tied in white ropes
Hear the banjo. Don’t it take you down home?
Oh Alabama. Can I see you and shake your hand.
Make friends down in Alabama.
I’m from a new land
I come to you and see all this ruin
What are you doing Alabama?
You got the rest of the union to help you along
What’s going wrong?
THE NEEDLE AND THE DAMAGE DONE
I caught you knockin’ at my cellar door
“I love you, baby, can I have some more”
Ooh, ooh, the damage’s done.
I hit the city and I lost my band
I watched the needle take another man
Gone, gone, the damage’s done.
I sing the song because I love the man
I know that some of you don’t understand
Milk-blood to keep from running out.
I’ve seen the needle and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
But every junkie’s like a settin’ sun.
WORDS
Someone and someone were down by the pond
Looking for something to plant in the lawn.
Out in the fields they were turning the soil
I’m sitting here hoping this water will boil
When I look through the windows and out on the road
They’re bringing me presents and saying hello.
Singing Words – Words between the lines of age.
If I was a junkman selling you cars,
Washing your windows and shining your stars,
Thinking your mind was my own in a dream
What would you wonder and how would it seem?
Living in castles a bit at a time
The King started laughing and talking in rhyme.
Singing Words – Words between the lines of age.
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Credits
Neil Young with The Stray Gators:
Neil Young: guitar, piano, harmonica, vocal
Ben Keith: pedal steel guitar
Kenny Buttrey: drums
Tim Drummond: bass
Jack Nitzsche: piano, slide guitar
and
John Harris: piano
Teddy Irwin: guitar
James McMahon: piano
James Taylor: banjo-guitar, vocal
David Crosby: vocal
Graham Nash: vocal
Linda Ronstadt: vocal
Stephen Stills: vocal
There’s A World
Neil Young: piano, vocal
With the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Meecham
Recorded at Quadrafonic Studios, Nashville; Barking Town Hall, London, and Broken Arrow Studio #2, Woodside, CA, Jan.-Sept. 1971, except
The Needle And The Damage Done recorded live at Royce Hall, UCLA, Westwood, CA, Jan. 30, 1971
Produced by Elliot Mazer & Neil Young, except There’s A World produced by Jack Nitzsche