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  • Miss you daddy!!

  • The stuff is still good..

  • perfection

    

  • Amzing how his songs trigger rivers of emotion to flow in my brain

  • the past generation was the greatest generation... world war 11....they left their legacy, hard working and saved the world.....i can't say the same for ours...the baby boomers... however our generation gave the world the greatest music ever......this is our legacy.......jbt...

  • shoot it neil

  • long may my honda civic run stranded in blind river.

    Ont lived there for 3 years

  • Besides fabulous lyrics, it's that gentle and somewhat forlorn quality about Neil's vocals and harp that makes his music so unforgettable. Many of Neil's songs paint scenes right out of a Fredrick Remington work of the Old American West. In a sense, Neil's music is the ultimate "time machine." Through Neil's music, we get in touch with our personal memories and with who we were (and are) as Americans and Canadians. Thank you, Canada! Thank you, Neil Young!

  • Just still and always have loved you Neil. <3

  • I just had to put down a 14 year old dog...... This is for you my friend!

  • Dave who?

  • not many people can write like neil, he is simply STUNNING

  • what key harmonica is this in

  • @frankje11 D

  • @frankje11 D

  • i could listen to this forever

  • but motorcycles don't have trunks ("trunks of memories ... still to come ..."

  • "chrome heart shining in the sun" sounds like a motorcycle not a car

  • Just lost one of my very best friends in my life yesterday. 45 is too young. This is the first song I thought of...

  • @klynch41 Sorry about Your loss...Peace...Been there recently myself.  :(

  • Isn't this song about a car?

  • @IISPLURAL

    It is!

    It died just outside of "Blind River"

    Much like my own car- which burnt to the ground on the outskirts of the same town.

  • @IISPLURAL Yeah. Its about the Pontiac hearst that he had.

  • @IISPLURAL Yes...but the main verse along with the sad, soulful voice and tune resonates to so many for multitudes of reasons.

  • @educator5555 So very true. Music for the late and lonely hours of the night -- like a nearly-lost memory of a steam-powered train traversing the Plains of Canada or the US, circa 1900.

  • 14 people dont got fucking ears!!

  • @justkeepsmiling1 Only 14???...Heheh

  • This song is so deep. That is why I love it. I can feel happy and sad at the same time listening to this song.

  • @cscdigitalgraphics

    That is Neil's gift: happy and sad at the same time. very emotional.

  • 14 people missed the shift

  • Your song, Neil Young, 'Long May You Run' is dedicated to Jessica and NASA from an friend.

  • if you hear this song..if you listen and it makes you notice things or remember things ..then by all means LONG MAY YOU RUN..to the fools and the haters and those not even smart enough to get out of their own ways..eat limes and taste lemons when you do..(or insert basic eat shit and live quote here) love and thumbtacks  0

  • BLIND RIVER is in the house! 

  • Surprisingly, this is better sound in 240p

  • About 6 or 7 years ago I had seen Neil play this song on TV I forget what show it was.I had not really been to familiar with Neil i knew some of his music but not this song.I always respected Neil but was never a big fan but after hearing this song my opinion of Neil had changed.He is now one of my favorites.

  • Happy Birthday Neil.... love your music always! Long may YOU run!

  • good song and good performance

  • To my Darling of Darlngs -- My Heavenly-Resplendent Wife, Barbra. You left me all too soon (on November 21/22, 2010). Heaven is home for you now. You were partially crippled in this life, but, now, LONG MAY YOU RUN! To my good friends in Thunder Bay. It was great riding with you. Choppers por vida.

  • @mickeymousebiker1 GOD speed Barbra and long may you run...

  • @blaqphyre A million thanks! God speed (and care) to you, as well! Thank you, Neil Young!

  • Great song thanks for posting

  • My 3 year old son keeps having me play this over and over. "Again? Again? Again?"

  • u know.......im mildley ofended that u used such a nice melodey and set it to word about a car.

  • @ugbonk ; Don't despair! A great artist is attempting to 'paint' an emotion...a feeling...that is supposed to reach you at a higher level. If he can do that--with you reaching your OWN personal connection--perhaps he has succeeded. Rejoice that it may be a metaphor for something more than steel and rubber. (And I'm not even a N Young fan...but this is one I like).

  • @DoofsterDan THANK YOU!!!........:D True souls of music know that ;)

  • Great song by a great artist.

    Canada's own, a musical ride to tipperary..

  • Gibberish, prefacing a storm of caterwauling, unharmonic guitar screeching and high-pitched whining, more worthy of a transgendered trollop pushed into a gutter after swallowing gallons of cum from multiple wayward gentlemen enjoying a night of depraved abandon in several of the seedier establishments on the dark outskirts of the shining city on the hill.

    James!! Scuttle your way to me quickly now, man!

    Bag that cat Nelly Young tonight. Here's a stout bat. Beat the daylights out of her!

  • @FuckngBastard deaf and dumb idiot.

  • @FuckngBastard talk about "gibberish" shut the fck up!

  • @FuckngBastard Sounds like somebody is jealous of other people who have real talent. You must be a real sad soul, screaming for relevance. Get a job.

  • Just saw this on the end of a Wonder Years episode, it's amazing how much Neil Young has aged so much in this video, but his voice still sounds exactly the same coming out!

  • This song really touches me.

  • I know many people think his vocals suck, but it is all from the heart. Thank you Neil. You are an awesome musician and so real. Peace/Love...

  • @ManardGCrebs manard.. (work?).  yup, i bought a few right after i posted this.. and i'm not a bro.. i'm a sis. thanks for your comment.

  • yes

  • i've been buying up a shit load of music from i tunes.. and i just realized i have nothing of neil young's.. i can't afford this shit.. but the music is too good to skip. i'll just have to come up with the dough. and i love what that first guy j4b7 said about neil's music.

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  • id give my right nut to write a song this good

  • @WalterSobchak1000 hahahahah

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  • Yes, I agree @TheBelly420 , Neil Young is a "Great" & a true musician ...

  • An American classic

  • @WalksThroughLife You mean a Canadian classic. :-)

  • @marcandrepaquin your correct.....but lets all agree and say he's a classic.simply that

  • My God, this is so simple and so amazing.

  • this is me and my dad's song, he got me started with neil young =] love you daddy <3

  • Neil Young will live forever as one of the world's great musicians

  • Mortimer - the hearse

  • the harmonica intro is the best

  • mort ftw

  • 14 people are stupid...

  • Neil has written so many incredible songs. His reedy voice has a uniqueness and a simple beauty that is unmatched.

  • Neil is truly a master!

  • Hope when (if?) my '72 Landrover gives up the ghost, I can write a song/poem this good for it.

  • Long may YOU run Neil...Neil Young is my favorite singer/songwriter (and this is coming from a Hard Rock/Metal guy)...something about Neil's music just helps me get by in life. His lyrical approach is like an artist's paintbrush-he's a musical Norman Rockwell-painting images of life we can all relate to with his songs. Mr. Young helped me get through some VERY DARK TIMES in my life-and for that I am eternally greatful. Not to sound 'corny', but his music touches my soul and gives me hope.

  • @Zillaman67 Not at all corny my brother. that's about the best way to describe it, and the biggest compliment an artist can receive

  • @Zillaman67 Long may you run Zillman67

  • @Zillaman67 ALL music is meant to touch the Soul....that is where it came from :)

  • Me and Richie Hall saw this guy THE day the was in Vietnam was over! They put it up on the neon sign or whatever they had back then. Meanwhile, we had nose bleed seats....but it was still awesome and then some!!!!!!!!

  • benny and dustin and john

  • How many don't know he was singing about a 1948 Buick Roadmaster hearse?

    Young's first car.

  • Coupled with RainyMood this is powerful enough to provide electricity to a small town. <3

  • You too Neil!

  • And love, desire, and LIFE.

  • @MiracleSoulFlyer Music=LIFE!

  • love ya mr. soul!

  • Many years hence, he will be forever remembered as truly one of the Great Poets of the 20th Century - long may run Neil,long may you run.....

  • was watching the wonder years episode "The Family Car" and this song played in the background while the old family car is hauled away. Such a beautiful song <3 I wasn't familiar with this track for some reason even though I had it in my music library LOL

  • And long may  you run Neil . . .

  • Bet he really didn't care if it got 55 MPG.......some people just don't get it.......

  • I heard Neil Young say once that this song was about his first car and his last woman.

  • @dustinblythe ya it was just before he turned gay and started riding a bicycle....

  • the stuff of legends.

  • about his first car - a funeral hearst

  • Funny thing, the last times I saw him perform on TV were this song... at the Olympics and Conan's last show... so the pun remains intact, but with a sincere undercarriage, if you will... fuck it, only Neil can make a song this meaningful.

  • This song is about his dog.

  • the older i get the more i love this music, long may you run neil.

  • A Neil Young song is about as pure and honest as it gets.... His music is sincerity personified.

  • Neil Young - Long may you run - pure talent lasts a long long time.

  • The song is about a hearse that Neil and his band used to drive around Canada in.

    Blind River is a town in northern Ontario halfway along the north shore of Lake Huron. Just down the road from Bruce Mines where I used to live.

  • @normruttan It is a beautiful town and it is nice to take a lunch break there before you venture on the twisting road up to Chapleau and Timmins, Ontario.

  • @normruttan Actually...14 people dislike this song...those 14 bodies in the hearse that don't like being woken up!!! Well, if you could fit them all in, but I'll leave it for Neil to sort out. lol.

  • @normruttan They also have a damn good Hockey team let me tell ya, played against em, im from Barrie!

  • About three semesters before I graduated from college, one of the journalism majors quoted the opening lines in his farewell column. So when my friends and I graduated, I played the song at our party. Almost everyone got choked up, so yeah it works on lots of levels.

  • Anyone knows what guitar he

  • @jopie550 yeah, its an acoustic one ;)

  • @3984ja

    are you sure about that? :P

  • @jopie550 he's known for prefering his martin D-45

  • On the surface, it's about a beloved car, obviously... but there's another layer, at least one. And I can prove it? Email me for the theorem.

  • One of the best musicians every! I can't think of one of his songs that I don't like!!

  • The album version is by the Stills- Young band. it was released around 1975-76. This is also the album title. I am lucky enough to have it in my vinyl collection. it can also be found on Neil Young Decade CD.

  • Where the hell is the album version? I can't find it anywhere.

  • i'll always think of my older brother Mike who passed in '06..he taught me the difference between music and muzak..long may you run Mike

  • Lovely song..

  • It's a good tune. I'm pretty surprised that one of today's country music stars hasn't covered it and made a big hit from it. I can practically hear it now, it would be a success.

  • Neil Young is great

  • Dam a Hearse .... Toyota should sign him up ...

    

  • What a TALENTED junkie..............

  • This song is about an old hearse Neil used to tour with. I believe it was written upon it's eventual sale. He used to live here in Thunder Bay On.

  • Holy shit! How stoned is Neil in this performance! DAMN!

  • love this one.

  • great song and performance. i like his ugg boots!!!

  • "this song i wrote to a memory of my first car evr" said neil live back in 1975. my first one was vw passat 1980, rusty as ever can be..

  • I would like to dedicate this song to my first car. A 1981 Cadi SS Victoria Hearse.

  • @sayjinlink His name is vincent

  • @sayjinlink Dude the song is about a caddi hearse!!

  • I encourage all to listen to Tear Down the House by the Avett Brothers. It is clearly modeled/influenced by this song. If you are unfamiliar with the Avett's, watch this song along with others. They are truly special. What a great song by Neil Young, though.

  • Long May Your Run Old Bessie, some people may this this story is boring and untrue, it's not :)

    Today, I went and replaced my old school bag, my old bag since I've had since about 2008, most people say " It's just a bag" but it's not I went all over Australia and oversea's with this bag, I couldn't just throw it out, so we filled it with huge rocks and threw it off the local bridge into the river, so Bess.... long may you run :)

  • @pekawood The song is written about "Mort", his hearse. The car broke down in Blind River Ontario. "Well, it was back in Blind River in 1962

    When I last saw you alive. But we missed that shift on the long decline

    Long may you run." Why would he be telling his son's that was the last time he saw them alive? And why would the Beach Boys have them now?

  • To rahlgren. Totally about his first car. Glad someone knew this. I dedicate it to my 1973 VW 411. Sure do miss it. I hope it's still running~♥

  • It's about a car, people, a car.

  • neil young has sons with cerebral palsy and he and several musicians(CSN included) sing each year at his summer camp for the disabled... he made a video of his son riding in the back of his truck through the woods and he played this song...though confined to a wheel chair..."long may you run"

  • This was my class of '79 song, we voted, not what I would have picked! Yes, this was about a car. It still brings back good memories!

  • 12 peoples will burn in hell

  • I find this video hard to masturbate to.

  • He said in a concert that this song was about his dog.

  • @rbuse46

    that's a different song. (King) this is about his motorcycle.

  • @kittykittycupcake On the album Decade he dedicated this song "to his last girl and his first car".

  • @kittykittycupcake I thought King was his dog ?/ yea  king was his dog .

  • There was another version of this, with a bunch of pickers backing him up, and his girls singing backup.....cant find it.

  • For my friend Peter, who was a huge "Neiler" fan........and left us in 1995....Long May you run up there Pete....

  • Apparently 12 people sneezed right as they were clicking the Like button.

  • I like artists from Dave Matthews Band to Eminem to Dylan.

    But this will always be my favorite song.

  • thank you for this beautiful music. it lives in me.

  • never was there a sweeter diddy for an inanimate object

  • Great song and top 5 ever artist ...gotta love it

  • May you all hold on to the good times that brought happiness into your life. Long may you run

  • I understand Miss Young has licensed this song for use in a stool-softener commercial.

  • I have completed a critical inspection of this shabby, hirsute and hysterical Neanderthal girl. I confidently offer an assessment of the young trollop. A slattern of equal aspect has not, nor is likely to ever grace the stage. This frightful young woman yowls and screeches in a feral manner, the tenor of which reminds me of those wayward felines trapped and beaten nightly by my forthright and stalwart groundsman, James. Surely this woman was raised by wild beasts. James! Hurry, I need you...

  • @FuckngBastard: You are aptly named, Mr. Bastard.

  • @GeorgeHarrysSon I shall convey your kind regards to my dearly departed father during tonight's seance. I hope he shows up. The last time, I captured some of his ectoplasm in a Bose-Einstein condensate and subjected it to some Bentley exhaust at the motor garage. It was the least I could do, considering his treatment of the domestic staff in his will. He left my mum, the chambermaid, a bill for services rendered, from the hospital emergency room treatment of her bruised sphincter. The bastard...

  • I love what he's done with his hair.

  • Long may we all run..

    

  • This song is an elegy for Neil's first car a 1948 Buick Roadmaster hearse.

  • Please excuse me for my ignorance, i don't think i understand what this song is about/

    is it about his car?

    (with your chrome heart shining in the sun)

    please answer whoever got the answer.

    thank you, and thank Neil Young

  • @pinojerry Yes, it actually is ;)

  • @pinojerry it's about his hearse "Mort." It was his first car which broke down in Blind River, ON back in the 60's.

  • @tjmfishing @tjmfishing No kidding. My brother's first car was a big old Caddy Hearse, which we naturally drove to Dead shows. That was great. Less great was being picked up at school in the hearse. Definitly set me apart from all the little girl prepsters I was in school with.

  • it's about an old hearse he bought,transportation to his gigs.

  • this songs about him and his closest friend from many years ago , he ran from the law and neil never heard or saw him again , he missed the boat

  • We played this song at my daddy's funeral. I don't know if it's about a car or not. But it reminds me of my dad every time i hear it. 

  • @BethanyRose69 God bless, Neil's music has seen alot of people through some tough times.

  • @BethanyRose69 awesome. may it bring pleasant memories of him. i had heard this at the closing of the vancouver games. been in love with it ever since

  • @BethanyRose69

    It's about a motorcycle. Awesome Neil!

  • @BethanyRose69

    Was your Dad a Boomer (born 1946-64)? My parent both died with the last 18 months, and I'M a Boomer - I think our time is winding down,but it's ok...

  • @BethanyRose69 You made the right choice...The words are about a hearse but the "song" is about loss. I would have played it at my dad's funeral but I was too broken up to perform. When I play Daddy Went Walkin" I always get teary as it's about dementia and my dad died of Alz

  • @rustedstevie Wow, losing my Dad in the same way....Music was/is one our strongest bonds. Peace!

  • @BethanyRose69 We played this at my Dad's funeral too, back in 2000. It just seemed right. He loved Neil and his music.