Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Ragged Glory [1990]

036

Year Released:  1990
Record Company: Reprise
1. Country Home (7:06)
2. White Line (2:58)
3. Fuckin’ Up (5:55)
4. Over And Over (8:28)
5. Love To Burn (10:00)
6. Farmer John (4:15)
7. Mansion On The Hill (4:48)
8. Days That Used To Be (3:42)
9. Love And Only Love (10:18)
10. Mother Earth (Natural Anthem) (5:10)

 

COUNTRY HOME

I don’t like to go down to flats
’cause I can’t park on a hill
Instead getting a rolling start
I have to pay the bill

I guess I need that city life
It sure has lot of style
But pretty soon it wears me out
And I have to think to smile

[Chorus]

I’m thankful for my country home
It gives me piece of mind
Somewhere I can walk alone
And leave myself behind

It’s only someone else’s potatoes
You pickin’ someone else’s patch
And if you go down there anyway
It very seldom lasts

I found that out once long ago
And it sure got me confused
I still don’t know which way to go
to lose those old spud blues
[Chorus]

[Repeat]x2

 

  WHITE LINE

I came to you, when I needed a rest
You took my love, and put it to the test
I saw some things, that I never would guessed
Feel like a railroad, I pulled a whole load behind

That old white line is friend of mine
And it’s good time we been making
Right now I’m rollin’ down the open road
And the daylight will soon be breaking

I was drift on a river of pride
It seemed like such a long easy ride
You were my raft but I let you slide
I’ve been down put I’m coming back up again

And I’m rollin’ down the open road
Where the daylight will soon be breaking
Right now I’m thinking ’bout these things that I know
But it’s good time that we’ve been making

 

   F!*#in’ UP

Mindless drifter on the road
(why do I)
Carry such an easy load
(why do I)
It’s how you look, and how you feel
(why do I)
You must have a heart of steel
(why do I)

Why do I keep fuckin’ up

I can see you on a hill
(why do I)
Comatose but walking still
(why do I)
Curves beneath your flowing gown
(why do I)
Only I could bring you down
(why do I)

Why do I keep fuckin’ up

Dogs that lick and dogs that bite
(why do I)
Hounds that howl through the night
(why do I)
Broken leashes are all over the floor
(why do I)
Keys left hanging in a swinging door
(why do I)

Why do I keep fuckin’ up

Keep fuckin’ up

 

  OVER AND OVER

At night when the sky is clear and the moon is shining down
My heart goes running back to you
I love the way you open up and let me in
So I go running back to you, over and over again

[Chorus]

Over and over again my love
Over and over again with you

Over and over again my love
Over and over again with you

Remember the nights of love and that moment on the beach
That wasn’t really too long ago
But we paid the price of time, and now it’s out of reach
And so the broken circle go, over and over again

[Chorus]

Somewhere in a fire of love, our dreams went up and smoke
We danced beneath silver rain
Upon the fields of green, where time was just a joke
And now the feeling’s just the same, over and over again

[Chorus]

 

    LOVE TO BURN

Late one night I was walking in the valley of hearts.
A spirit came to me and said: “You gotta move to start”.
“You gotta take the first step”.
“You gotta grow to be tall”.
And then she me told something, something that I’ll never forget.

[Chorus]

You got love to burn.
You better take your chance on love.
You got let your card down
You better take chance, a chance on love (on love)

Take chance on love (on love)
On love
On love

In a valley of hearts there’s a house full of broken windows
And the lovers inside just quarrel all the time
“Why’d you ruin my life?” “Where you takin’ my kid?”
And they hold each other saying: “How did it come to to this?”
[Chorus]

(repeat first verse)

 

FARMER JOHN

Farmer John, I’m in love with you daughter
Yeah, the one with champagne eyes.
I love the way she walks, I love the way she talks
I love the way she wiggles, she wiggles when she walks

Farmer John, I’m in love with you daughter
Yeah, the one with champagne eyes
Ooaah

Farmer John, I’m in love with you daughter
Yeah, the one with champagne eyes.
I love the way she walks, I love the way she talks
I love the way she moves, she moves she is moving, moving

Farmer John, I’m in love with you daughter (whoa)
Yeah the one, with champagne eyes.

Farmer John, I’m in love with you daughter (whoa)
Yeah the one, with champagne eyes.

 

MANSION ON THE HILL

Well I saw an old man walking in my place
And he looked at me, it couldn’t be my face
He’s words were kind but he’s eyes were wild
He said: “I got load to love, but I want one more child”

[Chorus]

There’s mansion on a the hill
Psychedelic music fills the air
Peace and love live there still
In that mansion on the hill

There’s mansion on a the hill

Around the next bend, take the highway to the sun
Or the rocky road, it really don’t matter which one
I was in hurry but that don’t matter now
‘Cause I have to get off that road of tears somehow

[Chorus]
repeat and fade

 

DAYS THAT USED TO BE

People say don’t rock the boat
Let things go their own way
Idea that one seem so right, now have gotten hard to say
I wish I could talk to you, you could talk to me

‘Cause there very few of us left my friend From the days that used to be

Seem like such a simple thing to follow one’s own dream
But possessions and concession are not often what they seem
They drag you down and load you down in diguise of security

But we never had to make those deals
in the days that used to be

Talk to me, my long lost friend, tell me how you are
Are you happy with your circumstances
are you driving a new car
Does it get you where you wanna go, with a seven year warranty

Or just another hundred thousand miles away
from days that used to be

 

LOVE AND ONLY LOVE

Long ago in book of old, before the chapter were dreams unfold
A battle raged on open page,
Love was a winner there overcoming hate
Like a little girl who couldn’t wait

[Chorus]

Love and only love will endure
Hate is everything you think it is
Love and only love will break it down
Love and only love, will break it down
Break it down
Break it down

Tomorrow is a long long time if you’re a memory
Trying to find piece of mind
Spirit come to me, give strength and set me free
Let me feel the magic in my heart

[Chorus]

(repeat first verse)

Love and only love will endure
Hate is everything you think it is
Love and only love will break it down
Love and only love

 

MOTHER EARTH

Oh mother earth,
With your fields of green
Once more laid down by the hungry hand
How long can you give and not receive
And feed this world ruled by greed
And feed this world ruled by greed

Oh ball of fire in the summer sky
Your healing light
Your parade of days
Are they betrayed by the men of power
Who hold this world in their changing hand
They hold the world in their changing hands

Oh freedom land
Can you let this go
Down to the streets
Where the numbers grow
Respect mother earth
And her giving ways
Or trade away our children’s days
Or trade away our children’s days

Respect mother earth
And her healing ways
Or trade away our children’s days

 

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Neil Young: guitar, vocal
Frank “Poncho” Sampedro: guitar, vocal
Billy Talbot: bass, vocal
Ralph Molina: drums, vocal

Recorded at Plywood Digital, Woodside, CA, Apr. 24-30, 1990 except
Mother Earth (Natural Anthem) originally recorded live at The Hoosier Dome, Apr. 7, 1990, with additional vocals recorded later at Redwood Digital

Produced by David Briggs & Neil Young