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  • GOOD GOD. IF YOU FUCKIN IDIOTS WOULD TAKE TIME TO RESEARCH YOU WILL SEE IT IS TURNED INTO A SONG ABOUT THE HORSE AN ANIMAL NOT FUCKING HEROIN. JUST LIKE IMAGINARY LOVER FROM ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION IS ABOUT A STATE OF PSYCHOSIS NOT A ODE TO WHACKING OFF.

  • @luvtotruck not far wrong there my friend, i never believed it to be about drugs but did think it was more about chasing a woman, but i had the fortune to ask roger myself a few years back at a solo performance, he said its about man trying to tame nature in general depicted by a wild horse

  • its about love for a horse

  • It's about heroin...H..."horse"...it's about getting strung out...

  • About a woman? what a knobhead..Get a life or a Horse!!

  • I interpreted it like Artistinthegarden

  • It's about a brown-eyed woman and the chase, and making love with her, you perverted imbeciles.....

  • What a great song,wish I had a horse, muel or Burrro!!!!!

  • Why the hell does it have to "mean" something. It means what it means to different people. That is the beauty of great art. It MOVES your HEART AND EMOTIONS it's not a cerebral thing. Why does it have to make sense ?????? I'm sick of art critics justifying their air time by coming up with pretentious critiques of whatever (whether it's music poetry or painting). You cannot analyse music that moves you. And why try ??? Doing this demeans and insults the art. P.S. This is a gem.

  • @Poltergeist40 Well said, sir (or madam).

  • @Poltergeist40 it's true.

    

  • THIS SONG IS SO CREEPY

  • I find this song very intriguing. Loved it when it first came out; love today. Having spent many years working with horses, this song grabs every time I hear it.I see this scenario in my minds eye. Freedom & spririt... that's what it's all about.

  • 'nice' is the most ridiculous adjective. Listen to the lyrics - they are about what horses symbolise - freedom, SPIRIT. Watch a horse for 5 minutes then you'll understand it. It's freedoj of spirit, passion- all the good stuff. Thats why they are amazing animals

  • This song is creepy as fuck

  • Trying to capture the ever elusive free spirit.

  • I love chestnut horses.

  • what the are you people takiking about i just love horses what are youPASSINATE about anything, is anybody passinate about anything anymore??????????? how about if everybody turned there cell phones OFF for one minuite and just listen to llife the younger generation is confused wy don,t we do somthing there is no real communication anymore you see no emotion when you text what kind of generation are we raieing? people with nO feelings WHATSOEVERWE NEED TO RETHINK TECHNOLOGEY!!!!!!

  • what the are you people takiking about i just love horses what are youPASSINATE about anything, is anybody passinate about anything anymore??????????? how about if everybody turned there cell phones OFF for one minuite and just listen to llife the younger generation is confused wy don,t we do somthing there is no real communication anymore you see no emotion when you txext what kind of generation are we raieing people with nnnNO feelings WHATSOEVER

  • If that stallion got her pregnant foal would be so sweet a horse.It came out the time I had asked a band to write me a song about horses.We never met.

  • If that stallion got her pregnant foal would be so sweet a horse.

  • I've always just thought it was about a woman.. or a horse. Not some deep racial shit. Obviously racism lurks in the minds of ALL men, to the point where it discredits a beautiful song played by beautiful people. Listen people, the universe does not generate LOVE, WE DO! and until you start loving, you can't truly expect to receive love. Exercise common human decency, the most basic form of love. This is how love will change the world, and save ourselves.. One kindness at a time..

  • @EireWarriorPoet

    Yes, we have become a very sick species. We can no longer think rationally about anything. We get everything screwed up now. It is a very large danger sign. We look for the worst that we can. Be careful what you go looking for, Taylor, you might find it !!!!!!

  • About a woman? what a knob head. get a life mate!!

  • I've always enjoyed this song by the Byrds. From the first time I heard it when I was in my 20's i created by own ideas about what this song was about, and now 40 yrs later that the song still brings up feelings about how men admire and love women and woman's independence and beauty from afar. They try to approach her, they try to get to the ultimate 'marriage' with her, they enjoy, and sometimes they miss and hope for another chance. It's a love song. I am in love and that's all I can see.

  • Totally awesome! Haven't heard that song in a long time, brought back great memories, thank you so much!

  • Its my life and Its my wife.

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  • beautiful guitar sound. huge influence on the stone roses

  • This tune is about heroin.

    

  • @edwina9 It is about lots of things and that is only your interpretation. I don't think it is about Heroin or Raping Horses or any such shit. It is inspired by Ibsens' Peer Gynt which was about a Reindeer!. Make a Drug or a Crime connection from that if you can. But with all these twisted minds on here who are Not Listening to the Beautiful Music, I reckon Someone will. The word Horse doesn't mean Heroin to Everyone you know, sometimes it means just that!. Horse. Maybe there's a clue in Title.

  • not bad...haha.

  • Woolworths , I miss my youth and it's innocence!

    

  • THE CHEST NUT MARE ehehehehehe

    GOOGLE > THIS IS THE STORY OF MY WIFE AND I says John Joseph O'brien :-)

    ehehehehe BUT I'M GOING TO LET HER "GET AWAY" says John Joseph O'Brien :-)

  • hey there Perino7869 yes this does have a deeper meaning. go to "lastfm" and listen to the rogers commentary of how its was originally about a reindeer and how they changed it to the west and a horse

  • What a great track

  • Good stuff...thanks

  • Love Clarence's pickin' on this one!

  • @whocares1694 Hell Yeah!!

  • Michael where are you? Joanna

  • Poetry love to michaelconnor

  • Their best song from the later half of their career

  • love this tune !!!!!

  • I love the video.

  • I am like a mule going up a ladder

  • Fine Lady

  • FINE LADY

  • Awsome song and band.

  • If those ranchers just left those mustangs and buffalo alone.You don,t own the land.

  • A lot was nicer then.But we where younger.I hope he wrote it for me.i like to think so.

  • I like to think the song was for me.Even if it isn,t.

  • I can understand the song better when I realized a horse- especially a saddle-tamed mustang- is capable of guiding its rider back to camp or ranch during a heavy snowstorm at night in subfreezing conditions. Brands were once necessary to prevent horse stealing- so was hanging, I like to think we've moved on since. Mustangs are both a blessing and a problem depending upon where you stand vis-a vis land management, nature, BLA and US Dept of Interior.Personally- I can't see a West without mustangs

  • 1971 - 1/10p (about 9p) for a pint, about the same for ten Player's No.6 fags, and a couple of bob (about 10p) for this single from the pile on the counter of the tobacconist-cum-newsagent next door to the college I was at.

    My copy was a single and didn't have the dozy Woodstock-style interlude, which made it all the more listenable. Lovely song. Still brings a tear to this narrowing eye.

  • Thank you for posting some really cool music, I was only like 8 yrs, old but I had my own record player and a ton of speakers to boot. This is a fantastic band, I wil check out some more of you channel. here, sub'd ya friended ya rataed too. do dito. thanks so much i will have video up tomorrow. take care hope to hear from ya' timothy phillilps / Oct

  • ALL HAIL THE BAND WHO HAD THE COOLEST HAIRCUTS IN MUSIC HISTORY!!! THE BYRDS XXXXX

  • FABULOUS!!! THANK YOU!!! =-) ONE OF THE BEST - BEAUTIFUL VIDEO, TOO!!! MICHAEL CLARKE WAS A DEAR FRIEND OF MINE BEFORE HE PASSED....HE WOULD HAVE LOVED THIS....MY 1ST HORSE WAS A CHESTNUT MARE - ARABIAN - BECAUSE OF THIS SONG...=-) - AND SOMETIMES YOUR BEST FRIEND IS YOUR HORSE...AND YOUR LIFETIME COMPANION...

  • @BETSYSUEU HOW MANY FECKING TIMES HAVE YOU GOT TO TELL US YOUR FECKING STORY MATE. FOR FECKS SAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • FABULOUS!!! THANK YOU!!! =-) ONE OF THE BEST - GREAT VIDEO, TOO!!! MICHAEL CLARKE WAS A DEAR FRIEND OF MINE BEFORE HE PASSED....HE WOULD HAVE LOVED THIS....MY 1ST HORSE WAS A CHESTNUT MARE - ARABIAN - BECAUSE OF THIS SONG...=-) - AND SOMETIMES YOUR BEST FRIEND IS YOUR HORSE...AND YOUR LIFETIME COMPANION...

  • FABULOUS!!! THANK YOU!!! =-) ONE OF THE BEST - GREAT VIDEO, TOO!!! MICHAEL CLARKE WAS A DEAR FRIEND OF MINE BEFORE HE PASSED....HE WOULD HAVE LOVED THIS....MY 1ST HORSE WAS A CHESTNUT MARE - ARABIAN - BECAUSE OF THIS SONG...=-)

  • FABULOUS!!! THANK YOU!!! =-) ONE OF THE BEST - GREAT VIDEO, TOO!!!  MICHAEL CLARKE WAS A DEAR FRIEND OF MINE BEFORE HE PASSED....HE WOULD HAVE LOVED THIS....

  • Pretty. I loved the Byrds. Still love David Crosby

  • Thanks, Daveinreno, my kids and I really enjoyed your stupid comments. You offered so much regarding one of the world's best bands.

  • This was my favorite song for a couple of years back in early 70's. I worked in a record shop and played it every chance I could get or when the other employees weren't trying to play less desirable stuff. Of course they thought this song was weird but I recognized the unique guitar playing of Clarence White and the unusual delivery of Roger McGuinn. The guitar playing is right up there with anyone.

  • A wonderful video with excellent imagery, horses running in the snow..... Roger McGuinn's amazing voice, a pretty, pretty song

  • In memory of Tommy Keddie. A gentleman and friend.

  • THE THING THAT PISSES ME OFF MORE THAN ANYTHING IS THAT SOME QUEER BAIT PIECE OFF SHIT GOAT RONIN PUNK THINKS THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO HERD THEM UP AND SELL THEM OFF FOR DOG FOOD BECAUSE THEY SAY THEY ARE INTRUDING ON YOUR LAND THE HORSES WHERE HERE LONG BEFORE MAN I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE A STALLION TAKE ONE OF THEM QUEER COWFAGS AND BEND HIM OVER AND LET HIM HAVE IT BUT THE COWFAG WOULD PROBABLY LIKE IT

  • @daveinreno1957 see your well informed.

    And so well spoken, this is such a perfect forum. lol

  • this songs for queer cowboys who r in love with their horse instead of a woman

  • Dude, sometimes a song about a horse.......is a song about a horse.

  • @IanHunedoara8  TOO FECKING TRUE!!!!!!!!

  • LOVE IT!

  • oh, those prettie horsies ...a 12 string rick for eack hoof. They will reighn victorius once they are saddled up and once again account for great horsesense...above where the proud unicorns mate with each other in the glittery smokey skies, with a wah peddle under the left back hoof and a fuzz pedal with phase shifter linked under the right ....oh...you can hear it now....

  • oh, those prettie horsies ...a 12 string rick for eack hoof. They will reighn victorius once they saddle up and account for great horsesence...above where the unicorns mate....oh...

  • Hey, I'm 56 and probably older than most posters here. I can truly say that of the tens of thousands of songs from my youth (and beyond) this is my favourite. Forget all the poor interpretations discussed here, this song is about love; loves briefly had and lost. It's poignant beyond imagining to anyone who has loved and lost. Peace to all of you nursing lost loves... and enjoy this great song.

  • @a18ion

    You are absolutely right.

  • @a18ion

    You are absolutely right.

  • This song is about a man who wants to, well, rape a horse. Is this a worthwhile message to convey to a nation at the crossroads?

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  • @margatelad  I won't deneigh what you're saying. You whinny this time.

  • top band top song! along with beatles & stones, my favourite band of the 60's

  • TKTRV Google

    DON'T PANIC says John Joseph O'Brien :-)

    but

    OPRAH AND AL GORE AND THE SATANIC GAY MAFIA GOT CAUGHT TRYING TO UPSTAGE GOD ON THE INTERNET

    or just Google

    SCOLE GHOST THEATER FIXES IT :-)

  • GRACIAS MUY BUENO

  • Thanks, trichoone. The song is a definite future Miley Dream.

  • This beautiful song was inspired by the deer hunt in Ibsen's Peer Gynt (Gene Tryp).

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  • In December 1996 I met Roger McGuinn at a signing/performance at J&R Music World. I had the thrill of telling Roger how magical this song is. He was very gracious.

  • @zigzag909, When Roger McGuinn sings... "And we'll be friends for Life, She'll be just like a Wife, I'm going to catch that horse, if I can!" He means that he'll love her, and be just as kind, and sweet to her, as he'd be to his wife... 'Cause he wants to share his life with her. He doesn't mean he's gonna consummate an act with her, for God's sake! Besides, she was born a beautiful wild, mare... you gotta let a woman like that be free, (sorry I mean horse.)

  • Well those clips of horses running around with cowboys chasing them look well dodgy to me.

  • IT IN YOUR SICK FUCKING EAD WANKER

  • um, then explain how that concept relates to "and i when i do i'll give her my brand". obviously you can't, which is my point. what the song "means", is what you interpret it to mean, to you only. what the writer was saying is known only to him/them. to think you are somehow qualified to tell the world what it means... is quite ridiculous indeed. even the writers - are not obliged to share "the meaning" with the world. it's no one's business - listen to the song and see what it says to *you*.

  • ~,~

  • you are a very sick minded fucker!!!!get treatment arseole

  • it's a beautifully crafted drug analogy song

  • does everything have to have deeper or hidden meaning? is it POSSIBLE he has a love for a horse (or another animal - didn't any of you have a dog or horse that you really loved - I did) so it is possible this was about loving a horse that he had to leave behind and he misses it. This is groups brainwashed the world to think "they" are special and victims of a brutal white male society - give it up already

  • i've always liked this song alot. used to try to play sing it way back when. i think roger talks better than he sings and may have been inspired by alices restaraunt a little here but still this makes my heart skip a beat. interesting comments too. and fine video. thanks

  • I don't know anything about how this song was written, but it's a beautiful song that just doesn't fit any stereotype that you might want to put on the Byrds....

  • We (Steve Low band) wrote and recorded a new song about rescuing a CHESTNUT MARE and used a 12 string as in the BYRDS classic

    Type in above Chestnut Mare Steve Low band to view

  • Great great song!!!!!!!!!

  • Oh, how I wish I had been around for this era......This song.....it's unbelievable.....especially at 2:15......MAGIC.

  • The first single i ever bought, in Woolworths, I was seven...Things were nicer then

  • @garybh2112 that my friend.....was a beautiful post

  • @garybh2112 very true.

  • they're lyrics not attack on womens rights, political correctness will kill us all

    This is a lovely song

  • You are exactly right. This is a proto-feminist song, if anything. He tries to impose his will on the chestnut mare, and blows it. "I'll get her again someday" implies that he may have learned how to treat a woman correctly.

  • Wow, I can't believe that I never got the signifigance of that. Boy, am I stupid. Thanks  for pointing it out. However, I believe many Byrds songs weren't stereotypical. One of the reasons I love them!

  • You're not stupid, you're a boor. But I salute your intelligence, as I always do when I encounter someone as monstrously intelligent as yourself. What do you think Fanon would think of some white man chasing after a "horse," amigo? What would Lacan think about it, Mr. Genius? You are obviously smarter than anyone else on youtube, dude, so tell me how you would construct a panapticon, vis a vis Foucault, to explain how this "hoss" was watched, "caught," and lost? Do tell, Mr. Intellectual.

  • So what you are saying to me is that I am a rude and unsensitive person - a boor - since I had the audicity to agree to a comment I felt was great about a song I love. I thought this site was for was for that. I guess I was wrong. By the way, dude, I do know all those words and names you are spewing, but save them for your final paper at Harvard, or is it Yale? Give it a rest. For everyone else out there, don't you love this song?

  • One of my all time favorites.

  • @manxcharlie oh you are funny

  • Such a great song. This one brings back so many memories for me. Thanks for posting it!

  • Love it. Thank you!!

  • My friend Flicka,Thunderhead,Fury,Cloud.­

  • thank you I asked my brother to write me one,well you did with out knowing.

  • Thanks for posting this! A McGuinn great!

  • Wonderful stuff!

  • nice

  • Truly one of Roger McGuinn's best stories and recordings = a classic - top 100 all time records, for sure.

  • I saw Roger McGuinn perform this song at Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO in 2003. It was great and he is a great solo performer.

  • I'm still trying to "catch," her.

    They say time heals all wounds, but wounds are usually felt more than seen.

    Just seeing her has healed many, many years of wounds.

    Peace.

    Rock

  • Great Song! Not too many are written quite like this- part story telling and part singing. I also like the dreamy bridge part at 2:17s.

  • Great song, cool video. Hey look; there's Cloud! :)

  • I've always thought this song was an allegory for the pursuit of a woman?

  • if your persuing a women, your already lost : P

  • Het Byrds,Chestnut Mare, a really nice sixties seventies sound... classic!.Thanks fer postin'. 5*****

  • Such a great song! I like the Byrds anyway, but this video is awesome. I love horses; such sensitive, caring animals, they are.

    Thanks for posting this!

  • Humans along with dogs and horses have had a close relationship in many cultures for thousands of years. There is something about those creatures which humans love.....especially Western cultures. In the Arab cultures they think of dogs as being 'dirty' whilst we in the west have always thought of dogs as uselful and friendly....which of course they are. The Arabs are obviously less perceptive than we in the west.

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  • thank you so much for the beautiful video...i hadnt heard the song since high school and it brought back memories...i shared this with a girl from school who has horses now i am sure she will enjoy it also!....:)

  • I honestly prefer the white-era byrds myself. dont get offended but i cant help but consider clarence the most underrated influential guitarist in the entire world.

  • thank you for this, what a beautiful song

  • I was already a huge Byrds fan at that point but a Bach fugue as the break in this song was intriguing. Thanks for the great video.

  • This is a classic song that sums up the 70's carefree and neverending ...

  • sat in a little hippy bar in spain last week...this song came on ...havent thought or heard about it since i wore my afghan coat in the 70s...aww felt like crying...

  • sounds like a quality bar and I understand why you felt like crying it was all ahead for us in our Afghan coats...love the song

  • thanks for reply....it was all ahead of us in our hippy gear wasn,t it ? hahaha all gone too fast though ,and i dont feel any older ,havent got the coat anymore though,it bloody stunk when it rained

  • Thanks for the awesome video and song - gave me chills...

  • Classic beautiful Clarence White guitar also, besides the levy/mcguinn composing...the whole group at this time was , tho not the original thing, a very good group live, Skip, Parsons, White and McGuinn.

  • I'm going to catch that horse if I can ....She'll be just like a wife..

    Such songs they never make it again!!

    Just oh so beautiful x

  • this is what music of the reanissance was like; before computers!

  • beautiful

  • Very beutiful!

  • What a touching song!!!

    The Byrds FTW!!!!

  • i love your interpretation of this great byrds song. hope you like my  video response with harmonies. peace, dan

  • Wow,

    what a wonderful video!I like all the horse imagery and it goes well with this excellent song.Thanks for sharing.

  • thankyou , you are welcome my friend .

  • r u sure about that they thuoght lucy in the sky with diamonds was about lsd

  • "r u sure about that they thuoght lucy in the sky with diamonds was about lsd"

    It's an educated guess. In the song "Idiot Wind," Bob Dylan sings, "Visions of your chestnut mare SHOOT through my HEAD and are making me SEE STARS." Even though this song was written before "Idiot Wind," Dylan was the pioneer in allegorical lyrics and it makes sense they would use the same symbolism.

  • jacques levy wrote the lyrics but he's gone.

    last really great byrds studio song-

  • nice relaxing

  • if a horse makes you write a tune like this you should marry it

  • It is from Peer Gynt of Henrik Ibsen. The Buckride. First time I heard it I said: "Hold on that sounds familiar" The Byrds put music to Peer Gynt. Unfortunately most of it is lost, and as a Norwegian I say it is a great loss.

  • Do you think this song is a cowboy p***take?.....the lyrics are a little suspect don'nt you think?....I mean I've got a horse.....but "she'll be just like a wife"???????.....hmmmmm.I blame the drugs!

  • I aint sure, I know where you are coming from, but my take on it is the spiritual relationship that some people are lucky enought to have with some animals, horses in particular ... lets hope so anyway ;-D

  • As a "horse whisperer" I hope so too!

  • Absolutely great! 1st heard it Vietnam and it grabbed me. Thanks for the music/video.

  • Despite the fact that the Byrds really declined after they fired Crosby, I give Mr. McGuinn the best creditfor keeping the Byrds going as long as he did. They were truly the American Beatles.

    Roger McGuinn is the man!

  • Yes it was McGuinn who kept the Byrds going. I like the years after Crosby.Nothing against Crosby,his singing on C,S,N&Young's "Long Time Gone" & "Almost Cut My Hair" are of the soulfulest I've heard. But when Clarence White joined with the Byrds White along with McGuinn gave the Byrds a different sound. Their album "Untitled" with White is a great album. Songs like "Just a Season" "You all look alike" were great songs.By the way does anyone know if any of those songs off that album are on here?

  • very good song

  • thanks so much for posting this

  • if i can recall wasnt the single a shorted verse, of this song???

  • arent the lyrics a bit suspicious?

  • there used to be a video on youtube of goin' back with images of a man who lived in the woods...anyone know what could of happend to it couse i cant find it....

  • its either been retracted by the owner or kicked off for copyright violation as they do from time to time .

  • I can recall this song, and have always found it great story song. The video goes very well this song.

    Thanks for posting it!

  • I just bought this album,'Untitled'. sounds great. the live side is great too.

  • This track makes horses sound for boys...cowhand/cavalry style etc.I remember it as a kid,I'd forgotten it was the Byrds or how complex and how cool it is.Cool like a Marlboro ad...without the cancer.

  • wow, nice photography...

  • Nice story. I love this song, too, gotigers49! Timeless.