Neil Young - Oh Mother Earth Lyrics






Oh, Mother Earth,
With your fields of green
Once more laid down
by the hungry hand
How long can you
give and not receive
And feed this world
ruled by greed
And feed this world
ruled by greed.

Oh, ball of fire
In the summer sky
Your healing light,
your parade of days
Are they betrayed
by the men of power
Who hold this world
in their changing hands
They hold the world
in their changing hands.

Oh, freedom land
Can you let this go
Down to the streets
where the numbers grow
Respect Mother Earth
and her healing ways
Or trade away
our children's days
Or trade away
our children's days.

Respect Mother Earth
and her healing ways
Or trade away
our children's days.





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  1. C.... T....

    ça fait du bien de le retrouver depuis 40 ans que je l'écoute (avec des pauses certes) mais il est toujours bien là ce sacré bonhomme

  2. L.... K....

    This world is definitely ruled by greed..Our beautiful world has been destroyed by the love of money😭

  3. K.... B....

    Neil, your music has lifted me for decades & this is a favorite. I thank you brother. Peace be with you & yours always.

  4. c.... ....

    I'm so deeply grateful to find this album. This is also my heart song ~ I love the sacred song of creation in all it's beauty & splendor ever-changing day by day. Respect our Mother and respect the People & the Treaties.

  5. D.... F....

    It should be ecologist anthem, or even world anthem.

  6. T.... ....

    The water is wide Neil, the water is wide.

  7. T.... E....

    💯👍🎶🎷"•♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸Aho*•♪♫•*¨*•." LॐVE 👍🎶🎷💨🍺

  8. R.... C....

    Beautiful ✌

  9. T.... B....

    Thank you for singing a song for her Neil. She needs as much help as she can get!

  10. D.... W....

    an economy of extinction is not a "booming economy", what kind of planet will our "booming" economy destroy? "our mother earth"? Can people be so divorced from their own soul and heart,, as to hold so tight to wretched waste, they will kill their "Mother", their own progeny and the miracle of diversity in nature, why? It is easy to conserve, to be frugal, and conscious, and revere the natural world, in all ways, every day. Nature is imbued with God's spirit. We can convert this destructive economy, must have started decades ago, so start now, we must stop the most obscene first,THE UNITED STATES DEFENSE BUDGET and war machine of profit. Together, now in God's grace, the sooner we "beat swords into plowshares" the light will regain against the darkness of death and destruction, greed and self defeat, reforest-not de-forest",
    the sooner we protect our own "mother the earth".

  11. R.... R....

    Mother Earth - Neil Young - lyrics)

    Oh, mother earth,
    with your fields of green
    once more laid down by the hungry hand
    how long can you give and not receive
    and feed this world ruled by greed
    and feed this world ruled by greed.
    Oh, ball of fire
    in the summer sky
    your healing light, your parade of days
    are they betrayed by the men of power
    who hold this world in their changing hands
    they hold the world in their changing hands.
    Oh, freedom land
    can you let this go
    down to the streets where the numbers grow
    respect mother earth and her giving ways
    or trade away our children's days
    or trade away our children's days.
    Respect mother earth and her giving ways
    or trade away our children's days.

  12. c.... g....

    Concerning Mother Earth.

  13. c.... g....

    Dear Neil, someone is blocking me from reaching you. Reach me here.

  14. c.... g....

    My nickname is Pochahauntus, and I am First Nations.

  15. c.... g....

    You can reach me on FB Catherine Elizabeth Garrick

  16. c.... g....

    Dear Neil, I asked you 2018 to help me create Global Concerts to raise monies for Green Technology as you are a person who claims they stand up for Mother Earth. You never responded. Why would you do such a thing? They say it is usually the people who are the craziest who think they can change the world and usually doso excuse my mentality, but this is something truly good that we've got hold of here, and I don't want recognition only results. Lets say we give it a go.

  17. M.... M....

    Very powerful and moving

  18. O.... A....

    Hey Neil...
    I got a way to run your bus without fuel...
    Like I told chief Allan Adam too...
    But you guys talk lots, sing songs and generate a fuck ton of tax revenue...
    Keep feeding the monster what it likes to eat...
    I know the way to get it done i just need real help...
    So Neil give me a call...
    5 mins of your time could actually change the world...

  19. 5.... S....

    In my older years I can see the destruction caused by big industry, and I know some of it will allow for us to make the lives of people easier as technologies make our lives here on earth better, but I can not be for many of the things being done with fracking and oil production it eliminates the beauty of an entire generation.

  20. 5.... S....

    I listen to this song and it makes my blood boil, I think mother earth needs her oil and I hear others saying drain the swamp and either way I know that our mother will take care of us when we need her but I hate to see all the Pimps making our mother a Prostitute.

  21. J.... M....

    Nunca dejaras de ser un gran folksinger

  22. M.... G....

    Thank you Neil, for bringing Canadians' attention to this abominable destruction of our environment to squeeze out a couple drops of oil from a mound of Mother Earth.

  23. W.... I....

    I should be put to jail, for what I've done to that repeat button!

  24. B.... ....

    The Iran thing was never a treaty, that said I hope that a treaty can be reached that ends all the bloodshed
    God Bless Everyone

  25. K.... C....

    Neil...Coming Across Loud and Clear!

  26. m.... ....

    brother sister maia 444407941906461 keep smoking neil youve got a crap doctor love you xxx

  27. J.... W....

    Thank- you.

  28. A.... B....

    great words

  29. A.... s....

    Keep bringing it Neil & take me home where I feel safe on that piece of land...

  30. T.... ....

    you will never be young neil..a long time aussie fan who is on the the same peace trail.seen you in melbourne at myer music bowl in 2004 greendale concert.was a dream come true..

  31. W.... J....

    GOEDE VRIEND NEIL YOUNG WE BLIJVEN GELOVEN IN MOEDER AARDEN EN HET UNIVERSUM EN ONZE KINDEREN VAN MOEDER AARDEN WE MOET HAAR RESPECTEREN
    IN NAAM VA N DE LIEFDE JEZUS CHRISTUS DE VERLOSSER DE KONING

  32. M.... W....

    Mr. Young your great. I love your music.. Every song you sing has meaning. I live on a farm with a creek running behind my house. I go there to meditate. I love in Tennessee. I would love for you to come an play at the creek its so beautiful. So if your ever come to Tennessee drop by. Keep on rocking. Angel Worman

  33. J.... W....

    4 PAWS UP !!!!

  34. i.... ....

    I cried during your performance of Mother Earth at Desert Trip. Such a beautiful song. This video is so powerful.

  35. L.... L....

    sounds to me like daniel Johnsons raw emotionality. beautiful man.

  36. t.... a....

    help me i want to kill myself... i shouldnt have watched emo the musical.

  37. M.... J....

    Mother earth,we are destroying you,I see no end,to greed ,destruction,how sad.

  38. G.... T....

    I absolutely love this song. I love the pump organ version he plays, it is so haunting, yet poignant and moving. The lyrics to this song are simple but brilliant and say so much. He is the master at making a simple song complex.

  39. D.... P....

    You tell them Neil, we're going to be heard one way or the other. Thanks for trying such a beautiful, peaceful route as a first attempt. Best wishes that it meets with some success at the very least.

  40. L.... B....

    I love you Neil

  41. B.... C....

    Wonderful...words...bless you Neil.

  42. N.... Y....

    The only way Mother Earth will recover is when we have gone. All we will do until then is play at being god, changing one way to provide for us for another, all with consuming ways for as long as there are too many of us to provide for in a sustainable way.

    N.... Y....

    😎 What a fool. And a good example of the irresponsible nature of the species. Encouraging the end of one life! would be like swatting a flee on the butt of

  43. n.... p....

    Juste : MERCI

  44. L.... ....

    Merci. Monsieur Neil Young.

  45. d.... ....

    Mother earth does it again!

  46. L.... ....

    I was at the 'Earth' concert on saturday in the Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam. This song really gave me goose bumps. How Neil sat behind his harmonium and started to play. The whole Dome filled with this deep heavy sound and the harmonica on top of it. It was very special. The concert lasted for 3+ hours and belongs to the top 3 of longest shows Neil ever did. Man was I lucky for being there!

    L.... ....

    any time you can catch Neil is a lucky day

    L.... ....

    coool :D

    L.... ....

    saw him at the O2 London, very special.

    L.... ....

    Ik was er ook, een woord schitterend!

  47. D.... S....

    alberta...home of the tar sands, greatest bounty of energy in North America! I have a big motor home I use to go to Nascar races, we need fossil fuel, all we can get! I LOVE this shit!

  48. P.... ....

    The Canadian Tar Sands.. :( So tragic.. & our destruction of this precious planet. Go clean energy. Go vegan. Replant forests. Leave your SUV at home. Go solar. Love Our Mother Earth & All Of Her Precious Species. Thank you, Neil Young. <3

  49. r.... ....

    Remember the Reef Bar and singing some songs with you Neil . They said we had good harmony too.

  50. t.... ....

    LONG past his prime! Ouch.

    t.... ....

    people get old. don't be disrespectful. his style hasn't changed, he's still neil young. has so much heart.

    t.... ....

    He is still a good songwriter and you probably wouldn't know a fret from a worry and probably can't play a lick either.

    t.... ....

    1440 may have some disagreement with you....

    t.... ....

    You are so wrong.

  51. C.... W....

    Wankan Tanka

  52. B.... S....

    Save the planet

  53. B.... B....

    ☮ ♫ ♪ ♫ <3 ♫ ♪ ♫ ☮

  54. D.... S....

    we are a part of this earth, the diversity of nature ,not multi national corp. gives us life. These multinational corps and the rich transnationsl class is causing a 6 mass exstinction. Bless N eil Young and all the peoples who sing the truth.

  55. S.... J....

    Neil Young : Mother Earth , live ! Neil you are "one" from the best ever, thanks!

  56. T.... C....

    was such an amazing experience to finally see you in concert over here on unceeded coast salish territory - vancouver. promise of the real and the monsanto years.
    check out - the anti oppression network at wordpress dot com and the anti oppression network on Facebook, twitter and tumblr. AHO!~

  57. B.... H....

    how good and clever is this man

  58. A.... ....

    <3 <3 <3 Happy 70th Neil! Thank you for your music. <3

  59. M.... T....

    doesnt saskatoon mean dont tell anybody there's oil here, in inuit?

  60. I.... ....

    You brought me to tears with this song at the concert in Vancouver! Best Concert of my life..Many blessings on you, Neil.. Long May You Run.....

  61. R.... K....

    she should be handled with the love and the understanding she deserves . not irrelevance

  62. T.... T....

    เสียง organ ช่างบาดลึกเข้าไปในความรู้สึกเหลือเกิน โดนใจจริงๆ

    T.... T....

    +Tawat Thammaraksa,


    Thank you, Tawat, you are so right, the organ cuts deep into feelings. Ever so moving.

    T.... T....

    is there some bar in thailand have this kibd of music being played? thanks.. i live in bangkok.. but don't know some bars with good music

  63. g.... ....

    thank you Neil for expressing my feelings all these years and giving me a voice. not that i don't have one, it often gets me into trouble. but many people listen to you now and that's a good thing. we need people like you to keep the hope alive. some others would be steve winwood, buffy st marie, bill mc kibben, ed abbey, jane goodall, and barb kingsolver. preserve our natural beauty

  64. M.... K....

    100 scientists call for oilsands moratorium

  65. J.... S....

    The oil companies have just destroyed our beautiful environment, the environment belonging to the seals, the pelicans, the small creatures of the ocean, this part of Mother Earth. My heart is broken..............Thank you Neil for these words of Truth.

  66. C.... M....

    Canada Waking Up the Masses

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/canadawakingupthemasses/

  67. D.... P....

    Neil Young - Mother Earth (Live)

    D.... P....

    Beautiful...

  68. S.... L....

    Never never forget this day

  69. c.... ....

    Alberta Energy Minister Ken Hughes revealed his energy strategy in this statement: “It’s absolutely critical that we have access to global markets,” Hughes said. “We’ve been well served by having the United States as our single market for pretty well all of our existence as a province. Now we’re at a stage where the United States is becoming increasingly self-sufficient, and we need to find other markets, and so we need to get to the ocean where we can sell our product at world price.”

    http://globalnews.ca/news/696639/alberta-government-commits-5-billion-for-pipeline-east/
    “My government made a commitment to the project as part of our efforts to build new markets and get a fairer price for the oil resources Albertans own,” Alberta Premier Alison said.

    http://o.canada.com/news/transcanada-pipeline-energy-east?fb_comment_id=fbc_182730895231721_431713_182825141888963#f13c0b653

    Canadian expert L. Ian MacDonald said, “And with the International Energy Agency forecasting the U.S. achieving energy self-sufficiency by 2020, Keystone isn’t really about reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Not in the longer term. It’s about a route to Asia for Canadian oil, and diversifying our markets... ”

    http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/MacDonald+Energy+Canada+issue+2013/7766577/story.html#ixzz2GumHlYGV

    "Canadian oil producers have suffered from depressed prices for their crude because they’re limited to selling the resource largely in the U.S."

  70. W.... W....

    one.day.people.will.wonder.why.their.son.was.born.with.a.penis.on.top.of.his.head.

  71. t.... w....

    There is a lot of truth here!

  72. K.... L....

    The Water Is Wide ...

  73. P.... S....

    I can't get this video to play.

  74. J.... M....

    Mr. Young's voice is particularly beautiful on this song.

  75. T.... M....

    Beautiful song and powerful message!

  76. M.... A....

    Grazie Neil per la tua Musica favolosa... 40 Anni di emozioni!!

  77. J.... T....

    AMEN! "..verily, I say unto ye - what does it profit a man to gain the World - and yet lose his immortal Soul?"

  78. V.... ....

    Obama's "Go Green" campaign - What a load of shite!!! Big Oil is extracting more crude oil than ever before in the history of the world!

  79. V.... ....

    Thanks for sharing -
    Made me cry when I watched it - Think about what kind of world we are leaving behind for our children to live in, that land is now DEAD! -  We are just "Pawns in Their Game"? We CAN and MUST force the government to do the right thing, while creating jobs at the same time - Yes WE can do it!

  80. C.... C....

    Thanks Neil!

  81. M.... ....

    The most important messages are those made with love. May love make the world a better place.

  82. e.... g....

    love u neil come to swe this summer

  83. A.... R....

    The Most Dangerous Animal On Earth...Man !...

  84. b.... ....

    Keep up the good work Niel! Beautiful song. You really opened a lot of eyes of the greed in this world! Our planet is wrecking by the near sighted greedy few! Keep on keeping on,we can fight this by multitudes who are against this money line!

  85. e.... g....

    i love u neil

  86. R.... L....

    Quit bitching and get off your own ass and do something

    R.... L....

    I bet you don't know what he does. Besides, I think inspiring change is important as well.

  87. l.... k....

    Oh this is so powerful and has made me cry .Please help save our Mother Earth she is so sick :(

  88. T.... ....

    More of your greatness Neil. Well done!

  89. B.... R....

    Mr. Young, I love your stand for Mother Earth. I hope we can meet one day.
    Respectfully,
    Roy Henry Vickers

  90. s.... ....

    It's our choice, and it's really a simple one: do you choose Mordor or The Shire?  This is not a metaphor or a fairy tale.   It's real.  You choose.

  91. T.... S....

    The numbers better grow or we are totally fucked

  92. l.... s....

    un inno magico alla Madre Terra, :)

  93. E.... P....

    Respect Mother Earth!!

  94. w.... ....

    3.18 You are right Neil, that looks worse than Hiroshima

  95. E.... ....

    amazing bliss   thanx Neil forever thanx