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Neil Young - "Cinnamon Girl"




Like two other songs from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, "Cowgirl in the Sand" and "Down by the River", Young wrote "Cinnamon Girl" while he was suffering from the flu with a high fever at his home in Topanga, California.


This song displays the very prominent role played by Danny Whitten in the sound of Young's early recordings. The vocals are a duet, with Whitten singing the high harmony against Young's low harmony. (The 45 rpm single mix of the song, in addition to being in mono and cutting off the guitar outro, features Whitten's vocal more prominently than the album version.) Young performed the song on his then-recently acquired Gibson Les Paul, "Old Black".





Lyrics


I wanna live

With a cinnamon girl

I could be happy

The rest of my life

With a cinnamon girl


A dreamer of pictures

I run in the night

You see us together

Chasing the moonlight

My cinnamon girl


Ten silver saxes

A bass with a bow

The drummer relaxes

And waits between shows

For his cinnamon girl


A dreamer of pictures

I run in the night

You see us together

Chasing the moonlight

My cinnamon girl


Pa send me money now

I'm gonna make it somehow

I need another chance

You see your baby loves to dance

Yeah...yeah...yeah


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