Written in the main cabin of my boat the Mayan. Originally released on Crosby, Stills & Nash, May 29, 1969 Recorded at Wally Heider's Studio III, Los Angeles, February 20, 1969 Lead guitar, bass, organ – Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills & Kantner Gold Hill Music, Inc., ASCAP/Stay Straight Music, Inc./Icebag Music Corp., BMI.) I took bits and pieces of it, put them into a song and it got posted through the record business instead of the mail.
Unreleased first Crosby, Stills & Nash recording Recorded at The Record Plant, New York City, December 1968 I couldn't find a real steel player, so I had to make do with my little volume pedal and my Gretsch with the tone bar. This version is an alternate take where I'm playing a Chet Atkins Country Gentleman style guitar. She was a real knock-out, so much so that she got all the football players to stand up and read poetry, trying to impress her with how sensitive we were and how much we loved this awful stuff.
This song was inspired a long time ago by my tenth-grade English teacher in Tampa, Florida. Recorded at Sunwest Studios, Los Angeles, June 15, 1969
– Stephen StillsĮlectric guitars: Stephen Stills, Neil Young Even did it in a different language just to make sure that nobody could understand it. I said, 'Now that we've sung all these lyrics about one thing, let's change the subject entirely.' And we did. And the little kicker at the end about Cuba was just to liven it up because it had gone on forever and I didn't want it to just fall apart. I was left with all these pieces of song and I said, 'Let's sing them together and call it a suite,' because they were all about the same thing and they led up to the same point. I had a hell of a time getting the music to fit. It poured out of me over many months and filled several notebooks. It started out as a long narrative poem about my relationship with Judy Collins. Original 7.5 ips tape courtesy of the Joel Bernstein Collection Song originally released on Crosby, Stills & Nash, May 29, 1969 Recorded at Wally Heider's Studio III, Los Angeles, early 1969 Guitars, bass, percussion: Stephen Stills
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