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Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay your big spike down
Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay your big spike down
I always get in trouble
when you bring it round
Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay it down.
I'm runnin',
I'm runnin', I'm runnin'
Down the proud highway
Yeah, I'm runnin',
I'm runnin', I'm runnin'
Down the proud highway
And as long as I keep movin'
I won't need a place to stay.
Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay your big spike down
Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay your big spike down
I always get in trouble
when you bring that round
Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay it down.
Well I'm here to deliver
I hope you can read my mail
I just escaped last night
From the memory county jail
I see your box is open
And you flag is up
My message is ready
If there's time enough.
Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay your big spike down
Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay your big spike down
I always get in trouble
when you bring it round
Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay it down.
Won't you lay your big spike down
Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay your big spike down
I always get in trouble
when you bring it round
Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay it down.
I'm runnin', I'm runnin'
Down the proud highway
Yeah, I'm runnin',
I'm runnin', I'm runnin'
Down the proud highway
And as long as I keep movin'
I won't need a place to stay.
Won't you lay your big spike down
Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay your big spike down
I always get in trouble
when you bring that round
Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay it down.
I hope you can read my mail
I just escaped last night
From the memory county jail
I see your box is open
And you flag is up
My message is ready
If there's time enough.
Won't you lay your big spike down
Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay your big spike down
I always get in trouble
when you bring it round
Motorcycle Mama
Won't you lay it down.
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uugghh this song just clashes so horribly with the rest of the album. I love Neil Young with the vast majority of my heart, but this song was an epic mistake.
While I agree that it's somewhat out of place on the album. I love this song and I'm glad he did it in this style and not with Crazy Horse. It would have been clunkier and less unique.
While I agree that it's somewhat out of place on the album. I love this song and I'm glad he did it in this style and not with Crazy Horse. It would have been clunkier and less unique.
I still remember the first time I heard this song. I was in Junior High and visiting relatives in California over the Christmas break and we went to see my older Cousin Karen in San Louis Obispo, she was tall and thin and blond with a horse grazing in the front yard.
I still remember the first time I heard this song. I was in Junior High and visiting relatives in California over the Christmas break and we went to see my older Cousin Karen in San Louis Obispo, she was tall and thin and blond with a horse grazing in the front yard.
We walked in and Motorcycle Mama was playing, I'd heard...
We walked in and Motorcycle Mama was playing, I'd heard Live Rust, Rust Never Sleeps and After the Gold Rush, but none of it sounded that funky. I bought the album hoping it was all that funky and was let down that the rest of the Album wasn't more like it...
I agree with bstaff1901– not a seamless fit on this album but a great song on its own. I also had wished the whole album was more similar in style, although I do think it fits quite well with Look Out For My Love. (And of course Cones A Time is a spectacular album overall.) Motorcycle Mama shows a classic funky side of Neil Young. It’s a regular in our playlists and on our favorite radio station (in San Luis Obispo, of all places!).
I agree with bstaff1901– not a seamless fit on this album but a great song on its own. I also had wished the whole album was more similar in style, although I do think it fits quite well with Look Out For My Love. (And of course Cones A Time is a spectacular album overall.) Motorcycle Mama shows a classic funky side of Neil Young. It’s a regular in our playlists and on our favorite radio station (in San Luis Obispo, of all places!).
It sounds like an admonition to a hard drug user of a "big spike", i.e. needle that he knew but would prefer not to see anymore. The verse about mail is him hoping she'll get the message that that was then and she should move on and give it up.