Young, Neil - Ambulance Blues Lyrics
Back in the old folky days
The air was magic when we played
The riverboat was rockin'
In the rain
Midnight was the time
Oh, Isabella, proud Isabella
They tore you down and
Plowed you under
You're only real
With your make-up on
How could I see you
And stay too long?
All along the Navajo Trail
On garbage pails
Waitresses are cryin'
In the rain
Will their boyfriends
Pass this way again?
Old Mother Goose
She's on the skids
The shoe ain't happy
Neither are the kids
She needs someone
That she can scream at
And I'm such a heel
For makin' her feel so bad
I guess I'll call it
Sickness gone
It's hard to say
The meaning of this song
An ambulance can only
Go so fast
It's easy to get buried
In the past
When you try to make
A good thing last
I saw today
In the entertainment section
There's room at the top
For private detection
To Mom and Dad
This just doesn't matter
But it's either that
Or pay off the kidnapper
So all you critics sit alone
You're no better than me
For what you've shown
With your stomach pump and
Your hook and ladder dreams
We could get together
For some scenes
I never knew a man
Could tell so many lies
He had a different story
For every set of eyes
How can he remember
Who he's talkin' to?
'Cause I know it ain't me
And I hope it isn't you
Well, I'm up in T.O
Keepin' jive alive
And out on the corner
It's half past five
But the subways are empty
And so are the cafes
Except for the Farmer's Market
And I still can hear him sayin'
You're all just pissin'
In the wind
You don't know it but you are
And there ain't nothin'
Like a friend
Who can tell you
You're just pissin'
In the wind
I never knew a man
Could tell so many lies
He had a different story
For every set of eyes
How can he remember
Who he's talkin' to?
Cause I know it ain't me
And hope it isn't you
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Young, Neil Ambulance Blues Comments
"And there ain't nothing like a friend who can tell you, "You're just pissing in the wind".
This just brings back the day ,old folky day.I love Neil.....
"It's east to get buried in the past
When you try and make a good thing last"
Amen to that on so many issues and levels!
"An ambulance can only go so fast" is one of the best shortest short stories ever. Beats Hemingway's entry.
Time's running and we're all dying, but are you truly living?
A magical album.
I think this may be the most perfectly made album(On The Beach) ever made....no, seriously...if u go note for note, unparalleled! Neil Young is that guy.....
" have fun with you drugs"
noli esse iustus multum neque plus sapias quam necesse est ne obstupescas
ubi est ergo gloriatio exclusa est per quam legem factorum non sed per legem fidei
My all time favorite
first discovered neil in 1983. the school library in finley, nsw, australia had after the goldrush. ive loved neil's music since then and i still do. thank you, neil and all neil fans :-)
mjr
tokyo
My god this is such a deep song
Why is the shoe unhappy?
Is that a dulcimer? Or can anyone tell me the different instruments being used in this song? What's the one making that kind of squeeze -y sound?
Mr Young may well intend to mean nothin in Amb blues
But On The Beach will always remind me of such fabulous times
When incredible things happened. Nowadays akin to the Election of D Trump.
Neil's young razer love is best of the best
Ever come across those women? Desperate, alone, screaming kids?
Not the mix I’ve listened to, hundreds of times.. everything is good and bright,, with the exception of Kershaw’s violin. I could barely hear it. 😔
Geez this song must be heartwrenching when you used to go with a girl named Isabella
Rusty's fiddle really brings out the emotion of this brilliant number.
Just Neil's friendly way of telling the world they're all just pissin in the wind, although they don't know it (but they are), lol. : )
what a great Neil tune, thank ya mg
Classic.......simple guitar........RICH harmonica.......soulful lyrics - THANK YOU Neil !
we survived
your only real with your make up on, never met a girl who could tell so many lies. Taka had a different story for ever set of eyes
Always loved it.Nothin like a friend to tell you your just pissing in the wind.
RIP Bert Jansch. Literally don't have anything in place to cope with how I'll feel when Neil passes.
there aint nothin like a friend who can tell you you're just pissin in the wind
Play this at half speed, and smoke a blunt. I guarantee you that you will be sky fucking high by the time this song ends.
where has time taken us from children to to now
Anyone else think of Lou Read, Velvet Underground, when listening to this track? Made me check that Youtube hadn't switched artists.Tinny speakers in the other room, in my defense!
Not that either is derivative. They each have their own style.
That’s no lie...
Such a boring old song, but I like it by now!
aint nuthin like a friend who can tell you you're just pissin in the wind
I'm here after learning a considerable amount of things about Doug and Rusty the Kershaw brothers.
the channel mix is way off
The blues are the clues, and the clues you choose make you do what you do.
This album is full of understated gems.
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I began playing the guitar in late 1972 at 13. The first album I learned from was Harvest. The songs kept going until American stars in bars. 1979. Every song in between
And there's nothing like a friend... To tell you you're just pissing in the wind...
Great song
How well this just blends into...well... everything...
"You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are."
Heck, here in the South everone is pissing in the wind, sometimes. Neil, still come around sometimes anyhow.
I agree that this is a véry good Neil Young album ,unique in its great quality,musically he surpassed himself,he is anyway an endless songwriter...
Juste génial mais c'est Neil Young!
Gotta love a guy with the cajones to show up calling himself, "the Canadian Bob Dylan." Hilarious, I thought at the time. Now... I tend to agree. Been a Neil fan since the Seventies. This is sheer genius. Great pickin', too.
And that's not even mentioning the killer fiddle running throughout. It's gorgeous.
Just pissing in the wind...
Somehow, I just "get" this song. Maybe I just get tired of people dying.
Pocos artistas tienen la sensibilidad, la profundidad emocional de Neil Young.❤🎸
"Ambulance Blues" -- Symbolic Genius!
It's easy to get buried in the past
When you try to make
a good thing last.
Fiskur So true im stuckin the seventies
An ambulance can only
go so fast
It's easy to get buried
in the past
When you try to make
a good thing last.
... hollow, like a sleepless night.
The interplay between the fiddle and the harmonica is so hauntingly beautiful, it's beyond words. This is one of Neil Young best songs.
"I never knew a man who could tell so many lies / He had a different story for every set of eyes / How can he remember who he's talking to / Cause I know it ain't me and I hope it isn't you." Timeless words from 1974 ringing true again in 2017.
He was talking about Nixon.
I never knew a man
could tell so many lies
He had a different story
for every set of eyes.
How can he remember
who he's talkin' to?
'Cause I know it ain't me,
and I hope it isn't you.
Written about Richard "Tricky Dicky" Nixon. Sounds familiar doesn't it?
This song is so relevant to what is happening in our world. Lies, deceit, murder, torture, forced starvation. We need more song writers willing to speak the truth to Power.
This song always makes me cry.
seems on this track he is using his real voice not his stage singing voice i think making this album helped him to open up to himself i tend to listen to this like reading his diary of events and his observations paints a piece of wall art in music
très belle mélodie ... larmes aux yeux comme James Bruce !!
it's such a boring song, but I like it.
Thanks for sharing Vids with the naughty finger - I bought the record way back then, don't have records anymore.
How can I contact Neil Young?
Perhaps you can google his art agent.
Christ, this is depressing
eerily similar to Bert jansch's needle of death, probably why I like it so much. great nonetheless
Neil borrowed the tune from Bert Jansch. Somewhere on YouTube is a video of them playing it together at the Bridge School.
Neil fully admits to using "Needle of death" for the inspiration of this song. Bert was a huge influence on him....
Wow, thanks for sharing, I'll google that. Bert Jansch was such a fine guitar player and singer; I don't know all of his work yet.
Strange this didn't make it on Decade
Just want to disappear into music these days and forget the horror of politics.
I'm 52. The world's gone irrevocably insane. I never imagined this when I was a kid in the 70s. I am right with you.
Think. Just think. That’s what Frank Zappa would’ve wanted.
Amen to that. We're all algorithm fodder to be herded up, lied and sold 'pieces of crap' to
you mean the horror of israel controlling most of the worlds politics :[
But this song is political
My god the desolation of those days.
Auch mit 64 immer noch
absoluter Fan.
Too often forgotten ! beautiful " roots " blues ... Thank you for that Mr . Neil Young ...
- Who used violin first on albums : Neil (On the Beach - 1974) or Bobby (Blood on the Tracks - 1975) ? ha ha
John Cale Velvet Underground in the 60's
- I meant in the "folk" scene, not whatever the genre
The Flying Buritto Bros.
- My friend and me we learnt to play guitar with Neil's songs. Happy and innocent times...
Dunno why, but I pictured it in my head and it looks awesome.
One of the greatest songs of all time....hearing him play and sing this live in 07 is one of the highlights of my life.
a melhor musica deste disco. neil fantastico
masterpiece !!! when I listen to this song I can finally openly cry
i think the same
Oh, Mother Goose,
she's on the skids
Shoe ain't happy,
neither are the kids.
She needs someone
that she can scream at
And I'm such a heel
for makin' her feel so bad.
My favourite Neil Young song :)
+funkymonkey1980 yes. exist "thrasher "too , cool
Mine too, along with 'Comes A Time' and 'Lookout For My Love'.
Perhaps the best ... with " Harvest Moon " , " Old Man , and " The needle and the damage done " ... My selection ...
Mine too. Tied with Expecting Fly.
Favorite song, period.
'An ambulance can only go so fast'- so true, there's only so much society/ people can do to help you, you've gotta make it yourself
the usual genius from Neil - great rolling guitar rhythm and wonderful melody with lyrics that make you think - timeless
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uma perfeição, infelizmente essa época acabou. As pessoas não param mais nem pra dizer bom dia, e nem pra perguntar como foi seu dia, tudo gira em torno de ilusão.
+Edilvan Lopes Si......
+Edilvan Lopes neil traduz como é o mundo. grande musico com discos muito bons
tb adoro essa cancao; Neil Young sempre tenta achar o lado humano da humanidade, principalmente nos momentos escuros
meravigliosa...
God the first time I heard this song, tears were coming out of my eyes. A beautiful masterpiece of a song right here.
James Bruce
Yeah baby! Great last name, btw! Bruce is my first. Arguably Neil's best lp. And even tho "After the Gold Rush" is a tad dated, that would be right up there. And "Sleeps with Angels" would round out my Top 3. All subjective, of curse.
After the Gold Rush is dated? Please explain your reasoning
favourite song of my all time favourite album
So few views for genius!
so sad indeed the kids today don't have any appreciation for genius like this all that matters to them is how many followers they have on instagram and how they can be noticed for doing nothing at all. so sad commentary
They weren't born in the old fogey days
Hard to belief only 5th album sounds so fresh Ambulance Blues my favorite
1 before 666
John Delmos d
ONLY FEW PLACES STREAM THIS NOW- WHY?
Your only real with your make-up on , let the mask melt
My Absolute favourite Neil Young song......After For The Turnstiles..........My Best Neil Young album.
Wow, another fan of the great For the Turnstiles. When people gush 'Dylan's lyrics', I think immediately of FtT and wonder why it's so unappreciated.
Can hear Bert Jansch's Needle of Death in this. Both good songs.
Absolutely the best!
It's hard to say the meaning of this song
But an ambulance can only go so fast
Neil at his best
What a fuckin tune!
Neil rules! HE RULES!!! ;)
Nixon, Manson, Patty Hearst, Neil has them all strapped in the back of the ambulance. Timeless, but also a perfect document of those crazy times of terrible disillusionment.
Peter Gerstenzang
I'm a helluva lot more disillusioned NOW than in the 60s-76. The U.S. public has become increasingly apolitical, isolated, self-absorbed, tribal, classist, racially polarized, xenophobic - all of which warms the hearts and genitals of the old, white men in charge.
Geneva1968 ..........and the Israelis...
Passing that way again...
Peter Gerstenzang
When this came out my Mayor was Sam Yorty, Governor was Reagan and Nixon was POTUS...same as Neil. I feel his pain.
Back in the old folky days
The air was magic when we played.
The riverboat was rockin'
In the rain
Midnight was the time
For the raid.
Oh, Isabela, proud Isabela,
They tore you down and
Plowed you under.
You're only real
With your make-up on
How could I see you
And stay too long?
All along the Navajo Trail,
Burn-outs stub their toes
On garbage pails.
Waitresses are cryin'
In the rain
Will their boyfriends
Pass this way again?
Oh, Mother Goose,
She's on the skids
Shoe ain't happy,
Neither are the kids.
She needs someone
That she can scream at
And I'm such a heel
For makin' her feel so bad.
I guess I'll call it
Sickness gone
It's hard to say
The meaning of this song.
An ambulance can only
Go so fast
It's easy to get buried
In the past
When you try to make
A good thing last.
I saw today
In the entertainment section
There's room at the top
For private detection.
To Mom and Dad
This just doesn't matter,
But it's either that
Or pay off the kidnapper.
So all you critics sit alone
You're no better than me
For what you've shown.
With your stomach pump and
Your hook and ladder dreams
We could get together
For some scenes.
Well, I'm up in T. O.
Keepin' jive alive,
And out on the corner
It's half past five.
But the subways are empty
And so are the cafes.
Except for the Farmer's Market
And I still can hear him say:
You're all just pissin'
In the wind
You don't know it but you are.
And there ain't nothin'
Like a friend
Who can tell you
You're just pissin'
In the wind.
I never knew a man
Could tell so many lies
He had a different story
For every set of eyes
How can he remember
Who he's talking to?
Cause I know it ain't me,
And hope it isn't you.
A moving masterpiece!