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Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown Lyrics
Come on, baby, let's go downtown,
Let's go, let's go,
let's go downtown.
Come on, baby, let's go downtown,
Let's go, let's go,
let's go downtown.
Walk on, talk on,
baby tell no lies.
Don't you be caught
with a tear in your eye.
Sure enough,
they'll be sellin' stuff
When the moon begins to rise.
Pretty bad when
you're dealin' with the man,
And the light shines in your eyes.
Come on, baby, let's go downtown,
Let's go, let's go,
let's go downtown.
Come on, baby, let's go downtown,
Let's go, let's go,
let's go downtown.
Snake eyes, French fries
and I got lots of gas.
Full moon and a jumpin' tune,
now you don't have to ask.
Sure enough,
they'll be sellin' stuff
When the moon begins to rise.
Pretty bad when
you're dealin' with the man,
And the light shines in your eyes.
Come on, baby, let's go downtown,
Let's go, let's go,
let's go downtown.
Come on, baby, let's go downtown,
Let's go, let's go,
let's go downtown.
Walk on, talk on,
baby tell no lies.
Don't you be caught
with a tear in your eye.
Sure enough,
they'll be sellin' stuff
When the moon begins to rise.
Pretty bad when
you're dealin' with the man,
And the light shines in your eyes.
Pretty bad when
you're dealin' with the man,
And the light shines in your eyes.
Let's go, let's go,
let's go downtown.
Come on, baby, let's go downtown,
Let's go, let's go,
let's go downtown.
baby tell no lies.
Don't you be caught
with a tear in your eye.
they'll be sellin' stuff
When the moon begins to rise.
Pretty bad when
you're dealin' with the man,
And the light shines in your eyes.
Let's go, let's go,
let's go downtown.
Come on, baby, let's go downtown,
Let's go, let's go,
let's go downtown.
and I got lots of gas.
Full moon and a jumpin' tune,
now you don't have to ask.
they'll be sellin' stuff
When the moon begins to rise.
Pretty bad when
you're dealin' with the man,
And the light shines in your eyes.
Let's go, let's go,
let's go downtown.
Come on, baby, let's go downtown,
Let's go, let's go,
let's go downtown.
baby tell no lies.
Don't you be caught
with a tear in your eye.
they'll be sellin' stuff
When the moon begins to rise.
Pretty bad when
you're dealin' with the man,
And the light shines in your eyes.
you're dealin' with the man,
And the light shines in your eyes.
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What a great move to include it on Tonight's The Night
Everytime i listen to this song i imagine Neil and Danny standing on stage playing and just having a good time!
@candysays such a shame there’s so few recordings of the original Crazy Horse...
@candysays such a shame there’s so few recordings of the original Crazy Horse...
great song to learn on guitar love neil's backup voice up there with my fav's on tonights the night
@cichon123 I think these are some of his best vocals and it's one of my fav. neil songs! Actually Tonite's the Night is my favorite album cause this stuff is coming from the heart!
@cichon123 I think these are some of his best vocals and it's one of my fav. neil songs! Actually Tonite's the Night is my favorite album cause this stuff is coming from the heart!
the song is about scoring heroine
Danny wrote the lyrics except for the "Sure enough, they'll be sellin' stuff When the moon begins to rise. Pretty bad when you're dealin' with the man, And the light shines in your eyes" In Young's bio he says that the part he added shows how little he knows about smack. A good song.
A song about scoring heroin, co-written and sung by someone who would die of an overdose a few years later. Within the context of the Tonight's the Night album, which mourns the deaths of Danny Whitten and Bruce Berry, this is like a flashback scene in a movie, showing how things were before the tragedy - young, carefree and reckless.
This is one badass rock song. The interplay and synergy of Crazy Horse with Danny Whitten and Neil might seem less obvious than it really was. Playing with Danny brought out a musical side of Neil's music that was way smoking hot. And the vocal harmonies of the Horse have not reached the soulful just-rightness (I don't want to say perfection) as they were with Danny in the mix... but maybe that's exactly what it was.
CSNY & W ! What could have been, if just for the moment (s).
It’s funny what you think you hear when you’re young and innocent... When I first got this I remember thinking it was just about these guys hanging out downtown, probably drinking beers, they get a bite to eat, which results in one of them becoming flatulent! “Steak house, French fries, and I got lots of gas!” and after a drink too many it sounds like they get pulled over for DUI “ Pretty bad when you're dealin' with the man and the light shines in your eyes”.., Many moons (and enough NY biographies, books, articles, interviews, etc.) later I get it, but it makes me laugh thinking what my first impression of this tune was, LoL.