Neil Young – Journey Through The Past [1972]

Year Released: 1972
Record Company: Reprise

1. For What It’s Worth / Mr. Soul (3:42)
2. Rock & Roll Woman (2:48)
3. Find the Cost of Freedom (2:00)
4. Ohio (4:18)
5. Southern Man (6:49)
6. Are You Ready for the Country (1:51)
7. Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1:00)
8. Alabama (6:21)
9. Words (16:42)
10. Relativity Invasion (1:08)
11. Haendel’s Messiah (2:50)
12. King of Kings (5:04)
13. Soldier (3:44)
14. Let’s Go Away for a While (2:08)

FOR WHAT’S IT WORTH/MR. SOUL

[For What’s It Worth: Stephen Stills]
[Mr. Soul: Neil Young]

[For What’s It Worth]
Something happened in here
What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a man with a gun over there
And tellin’ me I got to beware
I think it’s time we stop
Children watch that sound
Everybody look what’s goin’ down

[Mr. Soul]

Oh, hello Mr Soul, I dropped by to pick up a reason
For the thought that I caught that my head is the event of the season
Why in crowds just a trace of my face could seem so pleasin’
I’ll cop out to the change, but a stranger is putting the tease on.

I was down on a frown when the messenger brought me a letter
I was raised by the praise of a fan who said I upset her
Any girl in the world could have easily known me better
She said, “You’re strange, but don’t change,” and I let her

In a while will the smile on my face turn to plaster?
Stick around while the clown who is sick does the trick of disaster
For the race of my head and my face is moving much faster
Is it strange I should change? I don’t know, why don’t you ask her?
Is it strange I should change? I don’t know, why don’t you ask her?

ROCK & ROLL WOMAN
[Stephen Stills]

[lacking]

FIND THE COST OF FREEDOM
[Stephen Stills]

Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground,
Mother Earth will swallow you,
Lay your body down.

OHIO

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming
We’re finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio
Gotta get down to it soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know

SOUTHERN MAN

Southern man, better keep your head,
don’t forget what your Good Book said.
Southern change gonna come at last,
now your crosses are burnin’ fast, southern man.

I saw cotton and I saw black,
tall white mansions and little shacks;
southern man when will you pay them back?
I heard screamin’ and bull whips crackin’.
How long, how long? Ah!

Southern man, better keep your head,
don’t forget what your Good Book said.
Southern change gonna come at last,
now your crosses are burnin’ fast, southern man.

Lillie Bell, your hair is golden brown,
I’ve seen your black man comin’ round,
swear by God, I’m gonna cut him down!

I heard screamin’ and bull whips crackin’.
How long, how long? Ah!

Southern man
Southern man
Southern man

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?
Are you ready for the country because it’s time to go?

I was talkin’ to the preacher, said God was on my side
[faded out]

LET ME CALL YOU SWEETHEART
[Friedman/Whitson]

[lacking]

ALABAMA

Oh Alabama; the devil fools with the best laid plan.
Swing low Alabama
You got the 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, the Banjos playing through the broken glass
Windows down in Alabama.

—chatter—

See the old folks tied in white ropes
Hear the banjo. Don’t it take you down home?

—various talking/singing—

[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?
Alabama – you got the weight on your shoulders
That’s breaking your back.
What’s going wrong?

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.

—chatter—

Singing Words – Words between the lines of age.
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.

RELATIVITY INVITATION

Dialog between Neil Young and an unknown preacher (I think)

HANDEL’S MESSIAH
[Georg Friedrich Haendel]

[lacking]

THE “KING OF KINGS” THEME
[M. Rozsa]

Instrumental

SOLDIER

Soldier your eyes, they shine like the sun;
I wonder why.
Soldier your eyes, they shine like the sun;
I wonder why.

Jesus, I saw you walkin’ on the river;
I don’t believe you.
You can’t deliver right away;
I wonder why.
Jesus, your eyes shine like the sun;
I wonder why.

LET’S GO AWAY FOR AWHILE
[Brian Wilson]

[lacking]

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Credits

Buffalo Springfield:
Neil Young: guitar, vocal
Stephen Stills: guitar, vocal
Richie Furay: guitar, vocal
Bruce Palmer: bass
Dewey Martin: drums, vocal

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young:
David Crosby: guitar, vocal
Stephen Stills: guitar, piano, organ, double bass, vocal
Graham Nash: guitar, piano, organ, vocal
Neil Young: guitar, organ, vocal
Calvin “Fuzzy” Samuels: bass
Johnny Barbata: drums

Neil Young with The Stray Gators:
Neil Young: guitar, piano, harmonica, vocal
Ben Keith: pedal steel guitar
Jack Nitzsche: piano, slide guitar
Tim Drummond: bass
Kenny Buttrey: drums

The Tony & Susan Alamo Christian Foundation Youth Orchestra & Choir

Neil Young

Let’s Go Away For Awhile – The Beach Boys

Recorded 1967-1972

Produced by Neil Young & L. A. Johnson, except
Let’s Go Away For Awhile, produced by Brian Wilson

Neil Young – Journey Through The Past [1972]

Year Released: 1972 Record Company: Reprise

Year Released: 1972
Record Company: Reprise