COWGIRL IN THE SAND BY NEIL YOUNG
I think this song is off "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere" album with Crazy
Horse but I'm not sure. I got it off of Decade. Here it is.
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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niles Wanna Be |
#1 by niles lewis at Sep 28, 2007 at 7:18 PM EST |
| I have a live recording of a concert neil did in 72 in London. Before this song he says, "this is a song I wrote about the beaches in spain. I've never been to the beaches in spain, its just sort my own idea of what its like over there." also I have a question: what does purple words on a gray background refer to? | |
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Ale Wanna Be |
#2 by Ale Rosado at Sep 30, 2007 at 4:02 AM EST |
| I love this song, pure beauty. Neil Young forever i think this song is about a really hot woman who many men like. instead of settling down and getting married she just attracts men to her and they don't last for long | |
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Tyler Average |
#3 by Tyler at Oct 2, 2007 at 2:03 PM EST |
| Purple words could be an allusion to purpureus pannus from Horace’s “Ars Poetica” which means excessively elaborate exaggerated writing with too much imagery (Purple Patch.) Purple words could also imply royalty or regality. | |
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Nic Rhythm Player |
#4 by Nic F at Oct 3, 2007 at 8:06 AM EST |
| I don't think the girl is in a marriage. He suggests that she has not yet changed her name. I think this is about the inconstancies of women, as mentioned by Giordano. But I think it's more than that. I think it's detailing a woman for which he had harboured deep affections and then noticed her flirtatious and "game"like behavior. It seems to me that this turned him away (When so many love you, is it the same), and then suddenly she turned her affections back to him. It's the "Hello woman of my dreams; This is not the way it seems; Purple words..." that leads me to this conclusion. It seems that he's caught wind of the fact that she's interested in him because he quit his interest in her, and he's trying to explain to her that his love is real but hers is not and he's turning her down for that reason (What a horridly constructed sentence!) Maybe that's too complicated...but it happens a lot. I know: I'm a woman old enough now to change her name. :) | |
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Nathan Average |
#5 by Nathan Delvecchio at Oct 5, 2007 at 1:18 PM EST |
| I always took this song as the singer being in love with a married woman that is unhappy in her marriage. Several points: "Hello Cowgirl in the Sand", the woman (cowgirl) is completely out of place in her marriage ... like a cowgirl would be standing on a sandy beach. Beaches are known for women in cowgirl outfits. She's not happy in her marriage (is this place at your command). It's the person inside her that makes the singer feel an inability to stay away from someone he has no right to be with (it's the woman in you that makes me want to play this game) of unrequited love. Has your (wedding) band begun to rust? Is her marriage no longer of any real use to her. After all the sin (Adultry) we had. Not really sure on the "Purple words on a grey background" probably a reference to his words of love not really having any impact because after all Purple words would not really show up on grey paper, being difficult to see since the colors are somewhat close in the spectrum. This is how i always interpretted this song. | |
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Mike Lead Player |
#6 by Mike at Oct 7, 2007 at 3:49 PM EST |
| "It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game" Always sounds pretty bitter to me. | |
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Ryan Average |
#7 by Ryan Noffke at Oct 7, 2007 at 5:15 PM EST |
| an ex-bf of mine always dedicated this song to me. I'd never heard it till now... any idea on the "old enough now to change your name"? | |
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robert Professional |
#8 by robert cunningham at Oct 11, 2007 at 7:58 PM EST |
| this song is so amazing and like the rest of youngs work, stands the test of time. when i listen to this song i can drift away from everything and just listen. Is about anything? I think its about how a man can love, or think he loves a women who he can never get and i think the references ruby in the dust and purple words show that this guy can see the better part of this women who has a rough (angry, sexy) exterior | |
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i wud give da w Wanna Be |
#9 by i wud give da world 2 frankie if it was mine! at Oct 14, 2007 at 1:44 AM EST |
| I think he's talking about a girl who plays with men but won't settle down. I think "old enough to change your name" means she's old enough to settle down & get married. I've always felt that the woman in this song was just strong willed and wanted to be free, not that she meant to be a tramp, the feeling of the song is too gentle for the speaker to be angry at her. | |
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CJ Wanna Be |
#10 by CJ West at Oct 14, 2007 at 7:36 AM EST |
| the guitar solo is just fucking amazing at the begining of this | |
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LJ Average |
#11 by LJ at Oct 15, 2007 at 11:49 AM EST |
| Jonathan Demme, director of Neil Young: Heart of Gold, said that "Neil is so utterly real and completely magical." That rings true in "Cowgirl in the Sand." There's a certain authentic, natural beauty (no pun intended) about Neil's song, yet at the same time, every word is meaningful and can be interpreted in so many ways. He's a man who every fan wants to understand, but I just think that's impossible. Fuck music these days, all I listen to is Neil. | |
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