Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush"

[luckylarue]

Anybody ever work this one out on Mandolin? I think it would sound great as an instrumental. If you play it, in what key? I heard K.D. Lang's version yesterday and it made me want to explore the tune on Mando. Also, Michael Hedges did a nice version w/ Michael Manring.

[berkeleymando]

D G
D G

D G
Well, I dreamed I saw the knights in armor coming
D G
Sayin' something about a queen
D A
There were peasants singin' and drummers drumming
G A
And the archer split the tree
Bm C
There was a fanfare blowin to the sun
Bm C
That floated on the breeze
D A C G
Look at mother nature on the run in the nineteen seventies
D A C G
Look at mother nature on the run in the nineteen seventies


I was lyin' in a burned out basement
With a full moon in my eyes
I was hopin' for a replacement
When the sun burst through the skies
There was a band playin' in my head
And I felt like getting high
Thinkin' about what a friend had said,
I was hopin' it was a lie
Thinkin' about what a friend had said,
I was hopin' it was a lie

Well, I dreamed a saw the silver spaceships flying
In the yellow have of the sun
The were children crying and colors flying
All around the chosen ones
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun
Flyin' mother nature's silver seed
To a new home in the sun
Flyin' mother nature's silver seed
To a new home

[luckylarue]

Thanks berkeleymando, It will be a fun challenge to work out the melody and arrange something from this. I think double-stop tremolos will sound nice sprinkled in here and there. cheers.

[dan@kins]

I have always finger-piked that one on guitar.

Huh, never though tof working up a mandlin arrangement.

Its a beautiful song.

regards,
Dan

[hellindc]

We jam on this song a lot at our weekly sessions. It's not hard to work something up.

[handpicked]

Great tune!

Check out the TRIO 2 cd (Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt).

They do it with Dolly singing lead and it is a great interpretation. No mando on this one, though. But still cool for the incredible vocal harmonies.

But the mandolin player on 7 tracks (that have mandolin) is some guy named David Grisman. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

the cd is on Asylum Records, 62275-2, from 1999.