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I grew up to this wonderful, inspring and uplifting music that reflected hope, optimism, love and respect. Wish there were more of it today.

What a beautiful song. Maybe it's just me, but people seemed more gentle when I was a kid in the 50's in Canada. And the music was sweeter, and more upbeat, even on songs like this one about 'cheatin' hearts'.

She's a 'methodist'. Brains, but with a social conscience.

A good commentary on what has happened to America (and to some extent to Canada and the other western countries) over the last 50 years.

Part of it is that the powerful have gained power and used it to their advantage. This includes health care organizations, the medical associations, insurance ...

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.

My experience is that most human hearts are good (good at heart) and that it doesn't matter if you're agnostic, atheist, Islamic, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Taoist, or whatever. We all live our 3 score and 10 (a bit more now). We all have mothers, and fathers, and children, and brothers, and au...

I've always loved this song since I first heard it in the early 70's. I put a Canadian national park presentation together in the mid 70's with this as the soundtrack...$ are fine, but what do we do when the wild places are gone?

God bless the poets of the world. They keep us real.

I'm Canadian, and grew up in the 50's and 60's when all the stars were

British or American and Canadians had an inferiority complex. Then we got Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, the Guess Who, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Steppenwolf, and many more.

Of all of the above, I'm most proud...