Neil Young — Sugar Mountain Live Young Shakespeare

[Chorus] Oh to live on Sugar Mountain With the barkers and the colored balloons You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain Though you're thinking that you're leavin' there too soon You're leavin' there too soon [Dialog] (That was really gross, folks Shh, right here in Shakespeare's own place, man But if you can live with it, I guess it's all right It's not that serious) [Verse 1] It's so noisy at the fair But all your friends are there And the candy floss you had And your mother and your dad [Chorus] Oh to live on Sugar Mountain With the barkers and the colored balloons You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain Though you're thinking that you're leavin' there too soon You're leavin' there too soon [Dialog] (When I wrote this song, I wrote 126 verses Every six months I have a meeting in my head To decide what I'm gonna, you know, what makes it, what doesn't That's happening here The whole meeting was taken up with trying to figure out what verses to use Nothing else got even brought up I was only twenty years old The verses were all so bad that I couldn't decide But this verse here, I decided to use Because I thought that out of 126 it was the worst one And I thought it rated some merit there) [Verse 2] Now you're underneath the stairs And you're giving back some glares To the people that you met And it's your first cigarette [Dialog] (Get it? Now if I can stand up here in this great theater In front of you university students and sing something like that And you can't sing with me when I sing this part It's a little imbalanced somewhere) *sings* Oh to live on Sugar Mountain (Yeah, sing it with me Woo, sing it with me) [Chorus] Oh to live on Sugar Mountain With the barkers and the colored balloons You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain Though you're thinking that you're leavin' there too soon [Verse 3] Now you say you're leaving home Because you want to be alone Ain't it funny how you feel When you're findin' out it's real? [Chorus] Oh to live on Sugar Mountain With the barkers and the colored balloons You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain Though you're thinking that you're leavin' there too soon You're leavin' there too soon (Let's do it once more, for William Shakespeare Real loud, like it was really his twentieth birthday, folks) Oh to live on Sugar Mountain With the barkers and the colored balloons You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain Though you're thinking that you're leavin' there too soon You're leavin' there too soon