Crosby, Stills & Nash - Marrakesh Express Lyrics

Dior cruise 2008

All aboard the Hashish Express!

I cant believe that the hollies rejected this song.

Go get em boys ! Great music stuck I time it can never be duplicated ever !

Beautiful

https://youtu.be/ftUyHqm2RJg so beautiful 👍🏻👍🏻stumbled across this interesting character who dissects and reacts to great 70,80’s music 😊he has an eclectic taste you might enjoy!

Such a memory of my teens ..love it ❤️

Doggone, how I love this Sweet Song and the Fond Memories it evokes! 1969 was the Best Year of my life!

I can see this in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

I just watched Men In Black International and half expected this song to start playing. But it would be even better in Guardians

Simply by the law of averages, shitty groups such as CS&N would have at least one decent tune.

Sorry, but remastering just doesn't cut it. Much too tinny.

Fucken shit

This was their first album and they never wanted to be considered a band with strings attached..just a gathering of good musicians ...based on their individual experiences falling out with their previous bands.

it took me years to realize CSN is some of the top hippie music their was. they were just pure love

I have this album on vinal

this song went to #28 on the pop charts in 1969!!!

1969, the thought of adulthood coming, the draft, Vietnam. Exciting times, but scary.

it's been Many years since I heard this song. Sounds soooooo good!!!!

Will anyone today write a song like this?

Colorado state law mandates that you hit a pipe everytime this song plays. you must be lighting it while the Arabic is being spoken

What a fine songwriter Graham Nash is!

Awe memories of my parents and uncles and the music they had on the radio during my childhood. Great memories. This song in particular reminds me of my late Uncle James. Also Neil Diamonds song as well.

My dad used to drive that train from casablanca to marrakesh in the 60's and 70's

The band might've been on his train when they came up with the song...

I was on the Marrakesh Express when I was in the Peace Corps, It is world's slowest train!

The guitars of this era sang as well as the master that played them. Whatever happened to that ability nowadays anyway?

Late 60's 70's decade. We were all treated to truly the best that sound has to offer!!

The REASON Marrakesh is on my bucket list!

I love these guy. I hate this song. Hate!

Oops!-I meant to say can't believe this song is fifty years old.

Can't believe this song is fifty years later-Still sounds great!

Scott Burton because it s great!

This is the Crosby, Stills & Nash that appealed to my youthful sensibilities the most. So much whimsy, so much fun.

This song is shit, and an earworm

I remember this on the camper radio on the road there and my parents singing 1970 good times😁

Same 😊

The CSN box set liner notes say it's the great Jim Gordon on drums, not Dallas Taylor. Wonder if C, S, or N remembers who it was. http://aln3.albumlinernotes.com/CSN_Box_Set_Tracklist.html

Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes
Traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies
Ducks and pigs and chickens call
Animal carpet wall to wall
American ladies five-foot tall in blue

Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind
Had to get away to see what we could find
Hope the days that lie ahead
Bring us back to where they've led
Listen not to what's been said to you

Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express
Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express
They're taking me to Marrakesh
All aboard the train, all aboard the train

I've been saving all my money just to take you there
I smell the garden in your hair

Take the train from Casablanca going south
Blowing smoke rings from the corners of my mouth
Colored cottons hang in the air
Charming cobras in the square
Striped djellebas we can wear at home Well, let me hear you now

Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express
Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express
They're taking me to Marrakesh

Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express
Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express
They're taking me to Marrakesh
All on board the train, all on board the train
All on board

Wtf is David Crosby even saying in the beginning of the song??

I was in Jr.High...in SoCal...and this song was HUGE for my and my buddies...and it still is , even today

MARRAKESH... MARS RAKES. H. DIVINE COMEDY IS CENTERED IN ATLAS MOUNTAINS IN NORTH AFRICA. ITALY BOOT TOO NICE... NEAT... DANCING QUEEN. ..JUST. 17... IS SICILY... GODDESS IN MODERN DRESS....DREW BARRYMORE HIGH HEEL TOE IS SICILY. "ARTWORK"

I've often wondered how the Hollies felt when they heard this great song (that they'd rejected) featured on Crosby, Stills, and Nash's debut LP. Side1, Track 2.

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Don't you know we're charging with American Express... it's costing me lots of cash!

Marrakesh means GOD'S LAND Howzatt???

Poor Lori Schiller. I love this song, too, but music shouldn't necessarily govern a person's vacation choices. Imagine being a diagnosed schizophrenic and feeling stable enough to take a trip, then feeling such bad sunburn and heat intolerance from the Thorazine that you stop taking it, only to find yourself psychotic and alone in a foreign country, then nearly raped when you meet up with a reliable-seeming 'guide' to score hashish to calm your hallucinations and terrors. Random AF comment, but her memoirs have been on my mind lately...

Summer 1969 ..Moon landing..zodiac killer loose in San Francisco bay area...Manson family slay actress Sharon Tate and 7 others in Los Angeles ...Woodstock..Chappaquidick.

moon landing...hahaha

I like the Hammond in the left Background very much :-)

Going back for 3rd visit..will be humming this all along the way!

Morocco is about to build a 200 mph (320 km/h) high speed rail line, faster than anything that Amtrak runs. I wonder if the train will be called the Marrakesh Express?

My dad used to drive train of that line from casablanca to marrakesh in the 60's and 70's

That would be so cool !

If it stays on the track it will be a miracle

ABDELHADI NDIF Salam! I came here because someone asked me to translate the talking at the beginning but I don’t think it’s Arabic. It’s not, right?

@Captain Flak Yea mon~TOO many 'smoke rings' being exhaled!

that photo is in front of the house they were all living in that was in Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles..

it was not

Woopa hemesse hooga haffa hameshi goosh goosh

39 people have no taste!!! Amazing song!

Hey there. That your real name?

I love this tune.

Reflecting on my college days brought me here.

Jim Gordon on drums!!

I remember hearing this song in,the roads ofJFK airport picking up my brother Christian

Fantastic song fantastic band fantastic album

*ALL ABOARD THE TRAIN*

By chance I took the Marrakesh Express in 1970 before I heard the song. Ever since hearing it, I relive the journey and experience exactly as Nash's lyrics conveys with joyful nostalgia!

Hollies woudnt have had the harmony like CS & N...

those were the times... including the Pudding Shop and Sugar Shack in Istambul

take me to marrakesh

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Oh I love this song, so happy I was born in the 50's raised in the 60's and 70's, what a blast that was. Oh hell yes!!

wow Cindy you are beautiful your face your eyes your hair beautiful. plus you also have a great taste in music

Thanks, my parents DNA decided how I look and I agree I do have great taste in music because this is the real shit dude. :)

Same great era to be young.

I was born too damn late

COOL SONG!!!!!!!! love it. Thanks for posting it.!!!

Happy Birthday today(February 2) to Graham Nash. Cheers!

One of my favorite songs :)

El Tri "Piedras Rodantes" rebooted this song in the 80's

Graham wrote this song when he was still with the Hollies. He pitched it to them and they turned it down. Hollies' loss became CSN's gain

plain and simple: a very nice song. eternal classic

They were probably stoned out of their minds in the train, which honestly, sounds pretty good to me

Kuma Sama Well, this song is about smoking Moroccan hashish, so yeah.

You know, if this band could have added an additional person with a rough, harder edge, they might have made great rock'n roll. As it is, they're a little soft. I wonder who during that time could have brought in a heavy guitar and a gritty outlook to make this band soar.

wildmercuryfilms IKE TURNER

https://youtu.be/9XWmwvT8bCw

Neil Young

No offense, but I wouldn't have changed a thing. This group and album were amazing.

wildmercuryfilms that would be Neil Young.

Classic!

One of my all time favorite bands!

Mine to Tina,what year did you graduate from high school.

I was listening to this great song as a kid. Still great today. Just too short, is all.

I play it 4 times in a row; LP version. :-) It takes me back to growing up in San Francisco.

Always gives me pleasant thoughts this song:D

agree, I was a teenager and living in the desert of SoCal, but had memories of Marocco when I was about 6

I smoke a bowl of hashish to this whenever I can

@Valeri4561 you're certainly impressive berating a stranger you don't know behind the curtain of anonymity.

@snoozel Asmr Calm down smarty pants! I'm entitled to my opinion. I come from a family of police officers and I know what the drugs do to not just the seller, or the user, but innocent people killed every year because of people that think it's okay to brake the law if they justify it in some stupid way!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So.....keep walkin!

"break"

@Valeri4561 LOL, nobody ever died from smoking pot, you're just totally delusional.

Also, with freedom of speech, your freedom to swing your fist ends where the other's nose begins, or you get a shit show of retaliation, like what I'm doing now to you.

So you're delusional and a hypocritical moron, because people who have worked in law enforcement know about that really well with balancing people's civil rights, as well as rights and responsibilities, otherwise you'd be allowed to incite riots or slander people, but you are not, even under the First.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but when we use our opinions against others we invite retaliation in a lawless environment, that's why hate speech is not freedom of speech in law.

Just because you are related to a police officer, or even if one puts their cock into you now and then, does not make you any kind of police officer, because if you were, you'd be a disgrace to your uniform, but you clearly have no fucking idea about any of that, so better to just think before opening your big fat mouth for other people to just shove their cocks into, because I'm entitled to my opinion too, einstein and I can write more of them and bury you in them under the same idiotic rubric.

Degree7 “[...] they’re taking me to smoke their hash [..]”

I slaughtered civilians and soldiers alike to this song with my M-60, from the safety of a huey, when I was in the Nam. Rat-a-tat-tat mutha fukas...get some...get some...

Some nightmare you had.

I remember hearing this song in the jfk airport parking lot

all aboard! so good.

A lot of people won't be riding on American Express in the future after their refusal to pull support for a play depicting Trump's assassination.

Tom Dockery what does this have to do with the song

Goodness, how clueless could Trumpflakes be! How easily manipulated you are!

The play you note is a long-running, anti-violence play. Before Trump came along, the person killed was played by a black man. Guess whom that represented? I do not remember you Trumpflakes all in a huff about it back then.

Not only did you entirely miss the point of the play, but you make it all about you and your love muffin Donny.

In your next life, you would do well to ask for double the neurons. You got terribly shortchanged this iteration.

Normie !!

Fuck trump

awesome song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know if this is my favorite song, though it might be. But it's the only one in which I have to crank up the volume at the end so I can hear the fadeout. That's the best part of the song. In fact, that's the mark of a great song: it just keeps getting better until the end. lf I had a criticism of this song it would only be that it's too short.

Well said!

It's impossible to listen to this song and not smile. Great memories.

If you don't smile while this song is playing then you must be musically dead.

Actually chokes me up with tears and a smile . . .I really miss these days.

@ Roxanne Schwab - Right you are, Ms Schwab. Add to that "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves, and "Y.M.C.A." by The Village People.

What is the intro say

Just a bunch of jibberish from David "Cornhole" Crosby.

anyone else here because Iggy mocked it?

Iggy Pop? I'd like to see that. Link please?

What a FANTASTIC song :-)

I love this song!!!!! :-)