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"Sugar Mountain" is a song by Canadian folk
rock singer and composer Neil Young. Its
lyrics are reminiscences about his youth in
Winnipeg, Canada.
MEANING OF THE LYRICS:
In her album "You Can Close Your Eyes", Joni
Mitchell, who was already friends with Neil
Young by the time he wrote this song, opened
her song "Circle Game" with this speech:
"In 1965 I was up in Canada, and there was a
friend of mine up there who had just left a
rock'n'roll band... he had just newly turned
21, and that meant he was no longer allowed
into his favorite hangout, which was kind of
a teeny-bopper club and once you're over 21
you couldn't get in there anymore; so he was
really feeling terrible because his
girlfriends and everybody that he wanted to
hang out with, his band could still go there,
you know, but it's one of the things that
drove him to become a folk singer was that he
couldn't play in this club anymore. But he
was over the hill. So he wrote this song that
was called "Oh to live on sugar mountain"
which was a lament for his lost youth. And I
thought, God, you know, if we get to 21 and
there's nothing after that, that's a pretty
bleak future, so I wrote a song for him, and
for myself just to give me some hope. It's
called The Circle Game."
This cover has been performed by Massy with a
Takamine 12 Strings.
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