How is it he only did this and The Wiz? There's something very beautiful about this song.

Drink my second cup to this song just about every morning. Love Peter’s voice❤

Been playing this song non-stop, it’s incredibly emotional and gives me such chills ^^

Love it

The sole idea that could be more Nick Drakes hidden or never discovered chases me, like that Good Will Hunting scene when Prof. Lambeau quotes; “Sometimes I wish I had never met you, because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there.” that guitar is sounds so fresh even nowadays

Wish this had been on The Monkees' Christmas album.

Hi ya, me,again, I always say this, when, even, I type a message, sorry if I misspelled, or typed something wrong 😅 I type like a monkey 🐒 and I'm 70yrs.old, and I'm a bit stiff in my fingers, these days 😢 But I'm strong in the HEART! GO AHEAD AND LAUGH! 😂I DO! BYE NOW, MARY

Hello, Hi ya, everyone, I, too, are very moved, by, David, taking on this song, when he did. I, have always felt, that, when mostly, when, our David, sings,most of his versions, or, his own written songs, David, always puts so much, of himself in to his performances . I, once told him, when I got my chance to say it. It was after I think it may have been, live Brady Bunch play, at the Village Gate Theater? In NYC area. Anyway, l don't remember, from whom it was? But I was told, our David, was really feeling, disappointed , he was not being asked to be part of another, Oliver's planned, showing ,in the NYC area ? I mentioned it to him, he just looked at me ,puzzled. I then said, David! Why! Don't! You do! The Fagin! I know it would be GREAT! David! When you do a performance, it's not just a performance! You BECOME! THE PERFORMANCE! ITS! LIKE! YOU'VE LIVED IN THAT TIME! AND YOU WOULD BE, RELAYING! THAT! BACK TO US! DAVID! I KNOW IT WOULD BE GREAT! WOULD YOU, THINK ABOUT, PLEASE! ? HE SAID HE WOULD, AND THANKYOU! WELL, I BELIEVE , IT WAS, MAYBE, TWO YRS? AFTER? BUT HE, DID IT! I PERSONALLY, NEVER, GOT TO SEE IT! BUT I WAS GLAD HE , DID! FULFILL HIS DREAMS! OF DOING THIS PERSON, ( I always felt, was a father figure, in a way, to the kids, he'd turned into, pick pockets! But I believed, he always fed! Them! Gave them! A place to sleep! He did mind them all, but he did also, profit from what he taught them all! Sort of, one hand, washed the other!) And, my point, I have, always felt, because, our David was an actor, when our David sang, all that experience, went in to his singing ! When I was a 13 year old, it always felt like, David was telling, someone, how he was emotionally feeling about them! Very heartfelt 😢 I also, want to say. I read, a few months back, a dear friend of David's, knew about David's feelings, about faith, in general. And on a part of the YOU TUB, this fellow, said, back in the early 70's, our David, was, as you all know, David was trying hard to change his known, style, of his music. The story goes, David brought, some demos of his own. But, (and it figures!) They, were, dismissed! One that, David, brought to him, I guess, was a recording promotion set up, especially, rejected ! David's written work on a song, 'MY HEART BELONGS TO THE LORD ' HE, TOLD OUR DAVID, IT WAS TOO JESUS! AND IT WAS TOSSED! I BELIEVE THAT'S THE POINT! AND, NOW, IT'S, LOST? I WISH SOMEONE, COULD FIND IT! I FEEL, PERSONALLY, IT COULD BE, RECORDED BY, SOMEONE, THE, ORIGINAL, RECORDED BY DAVID, AND, IT, COULD, BE, MADE, FOR DAVID'S FANS, TO RAISE MONEY, FOR, DJEMF ❤ WOULD THAT BE GREAT? I WISH THIS COULD BE POSSIBLY! ❤ I PERSONALLY, WOULD, LOVE TO HEAR, AND OWN THIS, RECORDED SONG ❤ I WAS, AWARE, OF DAVID'S, LOVE OF JESUS ❤ WELL, I'VE, SHARED MY FEELINGS, ABOUT DAVID AND HIS SINGING, ANY WORK,GIVEN TO HIM EVER! I, WILL ALWAYS LOVE HIM, AND MISS MUCH 😢 BUT, I KNOW, IT WILL NEVER, BE AS DEEPLY AS HIS FAMILY, GO'S THRU, IN THEIR OWN PRIVATE MOMENTS ❤😢 BE, SAFE, ALWAYS, AND, GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU ❤ BYE NOW, MARY

The lyrics are so good as well. Man, Nesmith was such a talented songwriter.

So goddam good.

I met micky 2 times abd coco dolenz once

There's always a conversation about who started country rock and the outlaw movement was it Buffalo Springfield ,Poco, Gram Parsons but I tell you right now it was Michael Nesmith who was in The Monkees years before any of those bands even came out in the mid-60s he was way ahead of the Curve it was also the one who wrote the song that started Linda ronstadt's career" Different Drums". So to me he is the father of country rock and the outlaw movement years before Willie and Waylon

Sounds like Bowie...is he from the East End or is it Mary Poppins !

This is a beautiful composition. Tried to find "the faces." Not successful. Cool, I'll stick with this!

beyond genius guitar player.

I've seen him perform this when watching concerts and I love it

That guitar sounds magnificent. Great vocals as well. 👏

The photo looks like he's fed up with Paparazzi

Very unique voice.

lovely version by Nesmith... great talent.... believe it wasn't part of any of the Monkees lps possibly solely works...

I'm sorry, he couldn't sing! Still love him tho!

Wow! Its an everlasting mystery why Nicks genius was not immediately recognised.

It is on a CD sold at the concerts.

After Joe Boyd explained that boss’s nova was an influence on Nick Drake, I hear it clearly.

His music very often moves me to tears…until he starts this bs in the middle. Oh, Mike. 😩

mythical, in every sense of the word

Ooh, this takes me back - I produced/arranged it for Micky when he was over in London directing the stage show "Bugsey Malone". I also did three or four other tracks, with the cast.The engineer was Renate Blauel who later married Elton John for a very short time.🙂

I was busy getting married and having kids that I missed Mike's wonderful ideas and all of his many albums! Then all the Monkee albums all the concerts! His Pop Clips and Movies he wrote and produced life Repo Man and Square Dance. I am finding out now and loving Him for such a gifted Man!

Yes He is just as wonderful as I have seen him in interviews. This is better than anything! Nez you are so missed!

i miss him still

This song clarifies a reality many have faced

A monkee and Beatle collab What are the odds lol 😂

Nick Drake is NEXT LEVEL SHIT!!! Guitarist,Songwriter, Singer, Phantom

absolutely beautiful

It's a wonderful world.

Wrong special

Would of been cool had the wreaking crew given it thier "Monkee" sound.

One of my favorites

it was John Martyn who helped Nick Drake develop his open tuning guitar styles. Sad loss indeed, as he was so unique and amazing.

"By the Waters of Minnetonka" was inspired by a Sioux Love Song recorded by Mr. Lieurance in October, 1911, on the Crow Reservation in Montana. The tune was sung by Sitting Eagle, a Sioux. No one knows how old this Sioux Love Song is. It moves on today and into the future. This love song is based upon the following legend: Moon Deer, daughter of the Moon Clan, loved Sun Deer of the Sun Clan. Tribal law forbade marriage between the two clans. It was decreed that daughters of the Moon Clan must marry into the Eagle Clan. The two lovers, in tears, ran away far to the east and north. They came to a beautiful lake called Minnetonka (Minne means water; Tonka means large and round). Their happiness was disturbed because their traditional enemies, the Chippewa, lived on the north shore of this lake. They feared to return home and be separated, and finally in desperation they decided to end it all. The legend states that they disappeared beneath the waves and were no more. The waves moaned a rhythmic sound and the pines crooned their love song. Many moons afterwards the warriors of the Sioux drove the Chippewa north to Lake Superior. One night while they were camped on the shores of Lake Minnetonka, they heard the waters singing a weird melody and, in the moon-path on the waters, two lilies appeared and grew to the skies. The lilies were the spirits of Moon Deer and Sun Deer.

I don't like this song. Still love Davy though.

I love this! 0:17

The band on this recording is VISITOR from NYC featuring Joe Bop and John Reilly on drums (yes there were two), Frank Annunzziata and René Lozano on the guitars, Joe Ford on the bass and my brother, Billy Blanco Jr. on the piano. It was recorded at the Record Plant Studios owned by the late great Roy Cicala.

This unpossible!!! I was assured that the Monkees could not play their own instruments and were talentless hacks!! KIDDING!!!

bro played like they put an eviction notice on his door

That song would make a great soft shoe dance

Ah no, not the Batmobile again. I've just seen the Batmobile just a few seconds ago. I'm quite sure that you're not a Centurions power xtreme fan like the way I am. You're not even the Tonka's Supernaturals fan either. It's just that no one will ever impersonate these characters. It's just that the Monkees have never made fun of the Centurions power xtreme and the Tonka's Supernaturals characters before.

why am i crying

Love this! Love Pete too!

Peter's playing his ass off. This is great.