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Neil Young

"Hey Hey My My Rock and Roll Can Never Die"

(Neil Young, 'Hey Hey My My')

"My My Hey Hey Rock and Roll is Here to Stay"

(Neil Young, 'My My Hey Hey')

"You Say You're Leavin' Home Cause You Want to Be Alone
Ain't it Funny How You Feel When You're Findin' Out it's Real?"

(Neil Young, 'Sugar Mountain')

"You Can't Be Twenty* On Sugar Mountain, Though You're Thinking That You're Leaving There Too Soon "

(Neil Young, 'Sugar Mountain'*written on his 19th birthday)

"I am a Lonely Visitor, I Came Too Late to Cause a Stir
But I Campaign All My Life Towards That Goal"

(Neil Young, 'The Campaigner')

"I was chopping down the palm tree when a friend stopped by to ask,
if I would feel less lonely if he helped me swing the axe.
I Said 'No, it's not a case of being lonely we have here,
I've been working on this palm tree for eighty-seven years.'
He said, 'Go get lost,' and walked towards his Cadillac.
I chopped down the palm tree and it landed on his back"

(Neil Young, 'Last Trip to Tulsa')

"Isn't it a Pity that the People from the City can't Relate to the Slower Things that the Country Brings"

(Neil Young, 'Here We are in the Years')

"I come Down from the Misty Mountains, I got Lost on the Human Highway"

(Neil Young, 'Human Highway')

"Red Means Run, Son. Numbers Add Up to Nothing."

(Neil Young, 'Powderfinger')

"Hello woman of my dreams, is this not the way it seems. Purple words on a grey background, to be a woman and to be turned down...."

(Neil Young, 'Cowgirl in the Sand')submitted by Anonymous

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