Neil Young - Sugar Mountain

EDIT From April-June I am going to be collecting clips for a new version of the video. The end of the song in this one is cut off as well so for the new video I will fix that.
Thanks for watching, and thanks for all the comments!
There was nothing but covers and badly recorded live versions of this song on here, so I decided to just post this with some video clips.
Also, these clips were shot in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada... where he lived for a little while during his teen years. In fact the lyrics are actually reminiscences about his youth here in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

[@zioportacenere4521]

I've played this song every year on my birthday starting at age 16...I'll be 61 in a couple of weeks. I'll play it again ❤️

[@KaliYuggoth]

Here's to many more! :)

[@catherinec2149]

that’s so beautiful. hope you have a wonderful 61st birthday

[@mustard639]

Is this a Jojo reference 😊

[@duanelukawesky3459]

Good for you. Great bday song

[@AlexColberg]

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing that. From One Neil fan to another.

[@edenrav]

"How 'bout we make a toast, before we get our horses?" "To what...? We've lost everything."

[@MR_GAMERSZ35]

Lol i came here for this stay for the song

[@Krimxon_]

I love that panel so much its amazing

[@jameslawrence9850]

My brother sang this song every night when he was fighting cancer. He lost his battle in 2012 . Always will remember him singing this beautiful song. Rest in peace Reefer Rick ...

[@robertspence831]

RIP, Rick.....

[@ventureelect]

I will be making that trip myself this year. kinda shitty

[@bubbabubba7356]

Rest in peace!!!! Didn't know Rick but he probably left us to soon!! Great song✌️ prayers to your family 🙏

[@TrishBell1]

@@ventureelect Cancer sucks...I've been diagnosed 3 times in 10 years.

[@jamescogley1637]

Smoke, smile and rest a while God bless you all.

[@WithinandThroughout]

My dad used to sing this song when I was young, we used to sit in his Mercedes late at night and listen to it. He had a broken childhood that I never completely got to understand. He was murdered when I was 9, and I'm standing here at 22. Finally, understanding the applications of what it means to be "leaving too soon". Childhood gone, stepping into the same shoes he left behind. Innocence lost just to walk that road all over again.

[@annabates5579]

Sorry. I feel for you.

[@magiceyes530]

God bless you’re father. I respect you for telling you’re story. Greeting from quebec, canada! I’m 20yl as well

[@rikeovegaworldwidethepeopl914]

🌹

[@MultiChubby1]

Walk with Christ. He will get you there.

[@twizzy_4l634]

may your father rest in peace no matter his sins.

[@philipatoz]

Well, I was drawn back to this song this evening, as my youngest son moved out this afternoon, and I sit here and sort the emotions of this monumental change, as a dad of two, the other married and now gone four years. My wife is away on a trip, so I climbed the stairs alone, to the room my boys shared all those years, hearing echoes of so many memories of youthful voices and shenanigans - only to find a silent and empty room. But this is what we raised them to do - to launch out into the world as best we could equip them. So excited for my son, and for us, if wistful over the change. But then I'm drawn back to the pivotal line in "Sugar Mountain": "You can't be 20, on Sugar Mountain..." So true - as a young man HAS to go his own way, as THAT is where his future lies - and he'll never find it staying at home!

[@Daniel-si1ee]

Your comment is beautiful and so sad .

[@engineeringartist4801]

A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are for.

[@sumwonkool]

Reminds me of something my parents told me years later as well after I moved out. Sounds like you raised great children and you are a special special father. Life is full of different emotions, but yet is truly something isn’t it

[@jamesgannon6192]

I listen to this song often and can relate. You can’t be 20 on Sugar Mountain … I hear that line and can relate. I. I have for years. But to your day and your emotions. Your story is like mine and my Wife’s. You want to raise your children to be strong and able to see after themselves and their loved ones… You and your wife did a Good Job ❤️

[@rockportmo1]

this was my little brothers favorite song when he had cancer at the age of 4, when he passed away all i could think of was now he is on his sugar mountain. i always come back to listen to this song

[@tinu951]

Amen

[@joellee7645]

Thats sad .

[@derrickpowell5531]

So sorry for your loss, I'm sure he's watching over you and your family!

[@mikejohnson-rp7zu]

I know, me too. Sorry , I'm crying for you too.

[@mrsmacca126]

niko bellic that’s lovely. I’m sorry for your loss. 🙏

[@JM06261996]

I was really drunk in a McDonald’s bathroom when I was 18 and this was playing at like 3am over the McD’s speakers and I had a moment

[@BabbsLasvegas]

Over the toilet 😢

[@jfranco6673]

My 18 yr old passed a couple of months ago, he loved this song. I listen to it almost everyday now.

[@gigid9606]

I am sorry for your loss, God bless you

[@kgskates6072]

RIP

[@mikejohnson-rp7zu]

I'm so sorry.

[@tonyjenkins272]

So very Sorry ❤️❤️

[@mv8858]

Same here. I'm sorry. My father passed a few days ago and I also have been listening to it everyday since these were his innocent years.

[@susielong115]

My Grandpa was 19 when this song came out. He played it for My Dad when He turned 19. My Dad played it for Me when I turned 19. I always tell kids to listen to this when they're 19 and it really opens their eyes. Enjoy your teens. *You will be 21, 25, 30, 35 before you know it.*

[@sgewain5595]

Or 60 or 70

[@60panhead1]

well said

[@constance.bridenbaugh676]

then 74

[@patriciachristopher4295]

All too soon you will be 65.

[@vileswede]

Thanks for the extra dose of anxiety!

[@jacobfarley8386]

I'm 20 and this hits like a ton of bricks.

[@AlexColberg]

Thanks for sharing that. So gratifying as a person much older than yourself to read proof that there are young people who are into Neil Young.

[@henryjames8654]

If the rumors of re-incarnation are to be believed, then just maybe, you heard this song before 1999(oh and I'm 64, and I wouldn't want a life without Neil Young).

[@ryanstevens7366]

I feel ya their buddy 10 years later here i is haha freshening up on my lyrics for my acoustic

[@ryanstevens7366]

I am 30 with 6 songs under I belt I play to my children all the time

[@winritzert3310]

Yep.. Me too...and I'm 70...

[@cathystruska1558]

When I was 21, I lived in an unincorporated little part of town with a river and a walking bridge, I fell in love with a fair strawberry blonde with green eyes and an old soul, my friend and I would smoke and drink and play and sing this ballad, it was all true. We lived on Sugar Mountain, we thought we’d never have to leave, but we left there too soon, my strawberry blonde died in 2008 at the age of 46, I’ve lost so many friends, but when I hear this I go back to sSugar Mountain for 5 precious minutes,, Tj Struska

[@inlawjosiewhales]

I’m so terribly sorry for your loss.

[@SpiritusMundi4EVER]

😢😭💔

[@girlart9]

I’ve breathed the same feelings next to my own love, wirey and tall with blue eyes, sandy blonde hair and a new mustache. Which poked my lips in the first awkward kisses. His steel grip rough hands were always sweet holding my mine. I inhaled him as if he was life itself. We would walk to the middle of the cherry orchard, lay on the blanket, see the stars above, get whiffs of clean, nourishing dirt soil. It’s funny but the dirt smelled clean. Welcome to pleasure never imagined. How can we be allowed to go to such paradises, heavy with love, knowing it has to end, clinging to its every fiber of time as it evaporates and we cannot stay?! Fifty-five years have passed and I am 73. God! I miss him!!

[@girlart9]

And I am indeed sorry for your loss. I’m glad you had years together. 🌹🌹🌹

[@curiousnomad]

A beautiful song about leaving one's idyllic childhood, and crossing over into the responsibility and unknowns of being an adult.

[@edmueller3092]

You are so right ' 65 and still workin on it

[@johanstaelens5194]

So well said ! You are leaving there to soon...

[@FACE-fc7hl]

nah bro this song is definitly about coke \

[@philmann3476]

It's a journey we all must make, but memories of our childhood will always remain. Mr. Young captured it beautifully with this song.

[@DanielNortonActor]

“In 1965 I was up in Canada, and there was a friend of mine up there who had just left a rock'n'roll band (...) he had just newly turned 21, and that meant he was no longer allowed into his favourite haunt, which was kind of a teeny-bopper club and once you're over 21 you couldn't get back in there anymore; so he was really feeling terrible because his girlfriends and everybody that he wanted to hang out with, his band could still go there, you know, but it's one of the things that drove him to become a folk singer was that he couldn't play in this club anymore. 'Cause he was over the hill. (...) So he wrote this song that was called "Oh to live on sugar mountain" which was a lament for his lost youth. (...) And I thought, God, you know, if we get to 21 and there's nothing after that, that's a pretty bleak future, so I wrote a song for him, and for myself just to give me some hope. It's called 'The Circle Game.'" - Joni Mitchell

[@curiousnomad]

Thanks to Neil for an incredible song, and for leaving this video up on KZbin.

[@ababbit7461]

I played this song to my girl friend when she was turning 20, on her birthday.... Fast forward after 41 years of marriage and I still play this song for her.... She will always be my Sugar Mountain girl - forever.

[@12wurst34]

Sweet and touching!

[@lemurianchick]

I can't believe he wrote this at age 19. So wise.

[@octave772]

I wanted all my adolescent life to be an adult. Now I'm here, i spent so long looking twords the future, ignoring my 150. Now I sit here tearing up inside and I realize I wasted all my time on sugar mountain wishing I was elsewhere.

[@barbarahakimian9739]

This is such a perfect song. it fits me perfectly and have requested they play it at my funeral.

[@christabrewster7516]

Wow. I relate to song too. Fairys or God be will you.

[@marcusfreeman8014]

@Michael 00

[@hsdgfasdg5646]

That's beautiful. I'm having "don't let it bring you down" live, played at mine 👍

[@jl2937]

nice...im having tom petty wildflowers at my funeral

[@cc-hp2jh]

I like the way you think💕

[@dravenwhite3166]

This song reminds of the time when me and my cowboy buddy almost became part of a tree.

[@Off-with-a-bang]

Is that a MOTHERFRACKING JOJO REFERENCE!

[@louielouie6259]

Barkback Mountain

[@mikechilton2039]

Finally a damn reference! 😂

[@axolatte]

The saddest arc in Steel Ball Run imo

[@parrott4634]

Bro when they’re just sitting alone it was so sad

[@jamesrobertson8292]

Haven’t heard enough Neil Young, thought I should explore his music some more. Found this, listened, read the comments, and I’m crying like a child. And I get the feeling most everyone else here would understand what I’m feeling. It’s beautiful. This man really is something else ....

[@TheAtticradio]

Go buy yourself decade - the album. You won’t go wrong ! Superb. Then go explore after that !! 😎🎸

[@timherron2866]

...welcome to the club boss!...its a soulful ride..you won't regret it...

[@terryb4807]

Tears of joy’

[@susielong115]

Eric Clapton is still the same. His music is A1. They call him slow hand because he's so fast. He was asked about 20 years ago, "Who is the best guitar player in the world." In 1 second he said "Prince." Neil Young used to be for the people back in the 60's and 70's. Now he's a 1%er. Neil changed. Eric didn't. Kind of sad for Neil. I do love the Sugar Mountain song.

[@alisarodriguez6279]

@james. listen to "I am a child" by Neil Young

[@LeonardReyes88]

A friend, mentor and fellow Neil Young fan died today. I sang this song once at a gathering, when we just met and his face lit up, never expecting to hear someone play an obscure Neil YOung song out of the blue. His name is Neil Doloricon, a Philippine social realist painter.

[@williamobryan682]

Thank you . Loss and grief , saw his paintings today .

[@1965kid]

I started "adulting" when I was 14. I'm 55 now and damn tired. Just tired.

[@tundrawomansays5067]

Yeah. This is what happens when you’re middle aged by middle school. *When ya have to raise your damn parents, they’re just exhausting.* Ya can’t check out of being a parents when we’re Littles and decide somewhere down the road you’re gonna check back in: That childhood ended while you were gone.

[@funtimes8296]

@ELIS You're old!

[@JasonDBike]

Do stuff you havent done before. There are Things left, but you Tell your self that you cant, because... Find your passion.

[@rustyshakelford1279]

Yuup. It sucks like a Dyson vacuum on steroids.

[@alanpatrick8899]

Amen Brother. I was in such a hurry to grow up and now at 59 I can't remember why.

[@simonedevlin7710]

"Sugar Mountain" is one of Neil's precious songs about his childhood in Canada.We are grateful for his appreciation of the wildlife and his beautiful spirit.

[@shuroom57]

I don't cry for my "lost youth" when I listen to this beautiful song; I grew up in the '60's in white American suburbia. No, I lament the loss-of-childhood most young kids in the world seem to suffer at the back hand of poverty, neglect, abuse, human-trafficking, etc. I wish that they could have/have had it as good as we had it. Now that doesn't mean, let's stuff America with every last human being on Earth. That's ridiculous. No, those countries need to change. Every country deserves a "Sugar Mountain".

[@ericpiacenti9610]

What a beautiful sentiment. I grew up the same way, and now that my children are getting older, this song, and many many others, make it feel like a heavy weight on my chest longing for them to be little again and not inching ever closer to when they leave home and go off into the world. But I also long for that time when I was young too. It seems like so long ago I was a kid but I can also remember lots of things so vividly. But to the main point of your comment, yea it seems that kids are in a hurry to get older, and I’m especially moved by the thought of those children, little and even teenagers, who by circumstances of their lives are forced to grow older at an unnaturally rapid pace. You can’t get that time back for a mulligan. Enjoy every sandwich, as Warren Zevon said when he was dying. It seems trite, but in the context of his station in life when said, it’s profound.

[@annemarie7355]

Sugar mountain is wherever you were raised.

[@chestermartin3440]

This is one of the songs of my youth and it always strikes me deeply to listen to it. Today when I heard the line “the candy bars you had and your mother and your dad” it just made me sit right down and cry. Suddenly it brought be back to my childhood. I have listened to it a 1000x and never before heard that line. How we as humans tend to yearn for some of the things in life that are gone forever.

[@Nastard2]

It's a good line. Though it's candy floss (aka cotton candy), not candy bars. You know, cuz he's at the faire

[@youraccountingprofessor5013]

Mid-summer, 1973, Round Hill Virginia annual county fair. I was thirteen and a fifer in a Fife & Drum corps, the Mount Vernon Guard. We did two performances on that spectacular summer afternoon. As we idled away the time between performances we sky-larked around the tents and rides. Then this song came on, playing from someone's portable radio. It literally stopped me dead in my tracks. I stood stock still for a few minutes and drank in the lyrics and their meaning. I suddenly realized, with excitement and fear, that I too would be leaving the comfort and security of family, friends and familiar surroundings...my own Sugar Mountain.... as I headed off into Life's great unknown just a few short years away. I made a point to burn in every sight and detail, the early evening's blazing sunset, the gradually darkening vermilion sky, Bucky Wolford and Mikey Marx, heads back, laughing riotously over a win at a nearby arcade, the magic of beauty, innocence and youth....and yes, I had my first cigarette at that fair.

[@deadskunk8733]

1968! That's when life was still fun. Before Charlie's family. The summer of love. Before we all grew up, had to cut our hair.get jobs. Where's all the time gone? At least we still have music to take us back. Love Ya'll. Anyway, until the Golden Seed takes us home. Peace.

[@jimsteel4915]

4:08-4:22 My God That lyric is so masterfully written. I'm over 40 now and have been on my own now since I was 19 and it still gets me, with how harsh the truth of it really is! Hey if any of you kid's are reading this comment, enjoy yourselves... please 🙏 You'll thank me later...

[@poorlycookedchile]

Will do Sir.

[@lisaandpeterralph-nosewort332]

My 15 year old just passed from congenital heart disease. This was one of her favorite tunes. Such a hard fight. I don't know if Neil knew he was writing about loss, in my daughter's way. But I get it. I think she got it too. I sang this as a lullaby every night . She asked for this song for her funeral.

[@DavidAC44]

So sorry for your loss 😥

[@LoyalRaiderFan]

Neil Young has a way of stirring up the deep emotions...at least for me he does. This is one in particular I have always loved...

[@lisad7788]

He really does...I agree.

[@lemurianchick]

I was stunned to learn that Neil was only 19 when he wrote this and there were over a hundred stanzas. The wisdom and poetic sensibility is astounding. I was fine and then at the very end it made me cry because it's such a wistful sentiment. And then I hear the people applaud?! This was live?! Amazing. Absolutely amazing...

[@Guitarkid1991]

lemurian chick Its called being a genius

[@rich-bk7md]

+lemurian chick Its about an under 20 club he used to go to in Canada but had to stop because he got to old

[@rodneycaupp5962]

They will only let me give you one Thumbs Up

[@arautus]

He's an old soul . Genius beyond age.

[@markrice9377]

You would expect this to be written by someone in the twilight of their life... not someone on the very cusp of beginning it... Profound...

[@keremozdoo]

Everyone who listened to this Song has a good or bad memories

[@marioandco.6366]

Any other teenagers listen to this song to relax or just remove stress?

[@AWBepi]

Amazing that at 50 years I finally hear what he is saying.

[@billc307]

I loved this song in 1979 when I was a senior in high school. Thought I would be 18 forever.

[@bonnielombardi7433]

how'd that work out for you? because I thought that too. Boy was I kidding my self. lol. Always love to hear some Neil Young. Makes me look inside myself

[@christinajewell4405]

bill caldwell Snoopdog

[@viviandarkbloom100]

I didn't. Because even at that young of an age I understood how time worked. I mean I knew I would be 18 for only one year. Just like every year before.

[@misterkite5887]

bill caldwell Me too Bill ✌️

[@misterkite5887]

So many friends are gone, but someday we will jam again ✌️❤️🎶

[@Dolamieu]

Oh thats why she was named sugar mountain. steel ball run really couldn’t stop being sad…

[@DC3893]

Can't help but feel a sense of nostalgia when listening to this -- the melody alone puts you in that headspace.

[@davifschiffman9220]

Me too

[@katyfoye]

DC3893 yep

[@shamrockfmglobalradio8173]

A Masterpiece.. Congratulations.

[@sidinsky]

Can’t seem to get this song out of my head lately , I’m 65

[@kenneththompson8933]

This song goes way back to my trippy hippie days...life has passed so fast..."carefree" younger days...now replaced by long lonely days...this song plays on....

[@sjalexandernz]

I dont agree with his Spotify / Joe Rogan position, but the man is an international treasure. This was the main song we played for my fathers funeral. Much love to Neil.

[@solaireofastora8609]

He should’ve just kept his mouth shut lol. all of his music gone just like that.

[@paulehot]

For YOU maybe....

[@Fan_Made_Videos]

He has principals, it's weird how you bring that up. BTW, a guy called Trump came out against invading Iraq 13 years after the fact, and the same crowd who cheered on his lackadaisical management of COVID and praise his latent comments on Iraq are the same people who called Neil a terrorist-supporter in 2003 when he openly condemned the US invasion of Iraq. Talk about irony. 🙄

[@robbi1467]

Funny how this song just hits that vibe when you're homesick for that past life u left behind

[@renze7133]

Every song has a story, so here’s mine. I’m currently 17 years old. Things aren’t like they used to be, for the last year or so. I can’t enjoy stuff anymore like I used to when I was younger. I don’t care as much about things as I used to when I was younger. I used the have a new crush every week, but I haven’t felt anything like that in the last year. I figured that it could be a depression, but I didn’t feel depressed. I could still enjoy life, but it was just.. different. I can’t find the intense feeling of joy and happiness like when I was a child, and that’s when I realised: the child inside me is gone. I’m not a kid anymore. I don’t know what happened to him, maybe it’s just because I’m older, maybe it has to do with my mother passing away. But he just isn’t there. A little while back I felt like singing Sugar Mountain, and all of a sudden the lyrics just became very real. I understood the meaning of the song the first time I heard it, but now the song really connects. It doesn’t make me sad and I’m not feeling melancholic in any way. I simply changed and that isn’t bad nor good, it’s just what it is. But this song just became so much more beautiful, and it gives me that indescribable feeling only the very best songs can give you. To Neil Young, one of my favourite artists.

[@carminesassano6300]

Listen to Porcupine Trees, time flies, you will feel something.

[@renze7133]

Carmine Sassano just did, and wow, that song takes you on a journey. The guitar in the beginning, the solo and the whole structure of the song strongly reminds me of “dogs” (as numerous people have pointed out before me lol), but the lyrics give the song a totally different atmosphere. I like the lyrics. It gives me the same melancholic feeling as sugar mountain, it just hits totally different. Incredible what music can do with a person.

[@ddude1212]

Dang... as a 17 year old, this hit hard. I related to everything in this comment REALLY hard. In the last year or so, life has really numbed me. But I just wanna say, the child is still there, even if he’s hiding!! You can have depression but not feel “depressed” persay, depression is just your body’s way of numbing your emotions to deal with intense pain. We’re all meant to experience that intense peace/joy in life. Recently I met a girl who helped me awaken that inner child a little bit, and getting therapy helps unlock your emotions too. Life is good.

[@renze7133]

@@ddude1212 I like your way of thinking about depression. I’m not sure when I wrote this original comment, but I don’t think I was depressed. The last year, after writing that comment, has been incredibly good for me and I’ve been able to deal with all the 2020 shit pretty well. The last year I’ve experienced so many emotions, but good and bad and I didn’t feel numbed the same way I did as when I originally wrote that comment. I still feel the same about the child inside me that is gone tho, but I’ve embraced my new, matured identity. Life’s definitely good, and I’ve learned to enjoy even the worst emotions. After all, emotions are what makes life worthwhile :)

[@tundrawomansays5067]

@@renze7133 This is the feeling of having one foot in childhood, the other in adolescence or one in late adolescence and the other in early adulthood. It’s like that through all our life transitions-and you’re going through a big one now. Best wishes on your continuing journey. You’re exactly where you need to be at this time, {{{Renze}}}

[@Milkra]

This is definitely me when I have to spend $50,000, a diamond, and a bar of gold before sunset.

[@Neucod55]

I’m reading this chapter right now LOL

[@CoolF41lur3]

@@Neucod55 Me too lol

[@Cherry-vg3xe]

It's my favorite arc in SBR

[@marcusmurphy4049]

We think at this age it is worth Gold to go here , rather than spending our golden years fighting The Silent killer lonelyness which leads or opens the door to the mass killer Suicide 🌹

[@marcusmurphy4049]

RADIOVEGA WORLDWIDE THE PEOPLES NETWORK 🙂

[@Ferdiesflowers]

I was 20 when I got married and had my first baby....That is when Sugar Mountain became an untouchable place. I’m 45 now. How beautiful and special that place was 🖤

[@capesterp4685]

The raw authentic beauty of this song can never be duplicated.

[@Warlock-ke2sw]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@Milcom34]

One of the GREATEST Songs of All Time..................

[@jsinitials1488]

Neil Young's voice never sounded better.

[@arfermcarfer1369]

jerry ball your Damn right

[@katyfoye]

I feel like this is a song is the anthem of my childhood and it's is just so haunting.

[@ricklewis8322]

Sugar Mountain.What a great song.Thanks Neil Young!

[@cymbolichuman433]

I was blessed to find this version.

[@maurobarbieri6923]

In 1978 when I did my military service my friend had Neil Young's music cassette and we listened to this beautiful song. After many years I remember those good times with a slight melancholy

[@daviddavidp5078]

A good friend of mine died yesterday for Covid. We shared a love of this song. and Neil Young.

[@jamsguitars24]

Also, to me, Sugar Mountain is about how much joy and happiness childhood brings, in comparison to the realities of adulthood. In the first verse, we are happy just to be at the Fair and eating candy with mother and dad, even though it's busy and noisy. In only a short time, we move forward to find ourselves underneath the stairs and exchanging some visual and verbal insubordination with strangers, while smoking our first cigarette.

[@made-line7627]

Such a hauntingly beautiful song. I can never listen to it without getting tears in my old. Such a magical melody!

[@scottmcgregor8569]

Right? :)

[@Ivan-2801-z8x]

Madeline ... :-)

[@lindasue4237]

Having tears right now

[@grbpac12]

Every time I hear this, I am taken back to a time that I wish I could live over. Great times in the late 60's and early 70's

[@blusmahn]

Small club outside of town late 71', go in and have a beer. Local guy singing with acoustic not altogether that good, beered up, and just packs up and leaves. Guy walks up to the owner and asks to play and owner says I can't pay you but you can pass the hat. Guy gets his guitar and adjusts his mic and starts playing Sugar Mountain. My buddy says, "He sounds just like......" We turned around................and it was !

[@blusmahn]

Not yet having achieved Rock-God like status, he used the door like everyone else.

[@rachelwoods4634]

blusmahn what a memory you have! That would have been great to witness!

[@BiLatKnee]

I actually believe this story. It supports another one I heard about some folks picking up Neil hitchhiking near Big Sur in the same year. They spent all day on the beach with him playing and hanging out with them. Just them.

[@susanblack5924]

Santa Cruz!

[@timbrown4789]

blusmahn your a liar

[@bosshm-2]

Glad to see this video still exists. I used to watch this in 8th grade (I am 28 now).

[@carolmuller2204]

my 1st boyfriend introduced me to Neil young's music, still love Neil to this day, many years later. One special thing i remember is after my boyfriend, fiance died Neil was going to be at the Nassau coliseum I wrote to the local radio station asking how i could buy tickets and not be ripped off, well they gave me tickets not on the floor but one rise over the floor which was so much better. me and my friend Debra had the time of our lives, was awesome!!

[@kellyofuller4974]

Hello Carol, How are you doing?

[@carolmuller2204]

@@kellyofuller4974 fine thanks

[@kellyofuller4974]

@@carolmuller2204 Great, Where are you from?

[@dennisberube2307]

My life's soundtrack is "Live, Rust" . Sugar Mountain is the song my deceased baby sister couldn't pronounce when I was in high school. I can't listen to this song unless I plan ahead. Nows a good time at 4 AM. Love you kiddo.

[@destrik4115]

My mother sent this to me today on my 20th. this song is beautiful.

[@lindasue4237]

You are a blessed young lady!

[@roslynklippelt5985]

We can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain. Growing up as a child and learning that everything wonderful can't last when you grow up. Magical lyrics Neil Young....thank you.

[@davidbowman4259]

Another classic from the incomparable Neil Young. A world treasure.

[@tam6402]

Absolutely ❤

[@patriciafootejohnson2817]

One of this black Detroit chick's favorite neil young songs reminds me of my great childhood in the 50s and 60s and when I turned 20 and faced some of the ugly times of the days to come. I would give all my tomorrows for a single yesterday as that kris kristofferson song said. But to those who miss their love ones i say they' are are in a happy better place and you will see them again. When I saw my dad after he died I was still angry at how he suffered from cancer but he shook his head and kept smiling as to say it doesn't matter what you go through on earth just makes it to the other side with God cause he was extremely happy. I look forward to my homecoming .

[@robertquint67]

universally timeless. Every generation will find meaning in this poem.... Wonder, rebellion and self realization... The human condition.

[@Drengl1]

So stunningly simple yet eternally & wistfully dreamy.

[@jayem2400]

I'm listening to this the night before my 20th birthday. Even reading that feels weird! I would never have known this song existed if my dad hadn't shown it to me one time when I was around 16. He passed away last year. I understand in so many different ways now what it means to 'leave too soon'

[@tam6402]

Im sorry for you loss ❤

[@bunnypriscu2109]

Discovered Neil through my high school boyfriend. And was changed forever. Love him still at 62!!!

[@jayn9559]

My Mother met/remarried. Was soon to be my adopted Father, played this song after proposing to her on Christmas day, in bed. I woke up to a father for Christmas of 98'.

[@dangerrusss6996]

this damn song still chokes me up......neil youngs voice is just so......sooo......UNDERSTANDING....thank you for being my best freind mr. young 35 yrs ago when it felt like i had none!!....lol...danger-russ

[@richardschmidt5733]

exactly

[@invisibleboy3997]

Without music this world would be a mistake.

[@vickiknight5967]

Riding my ten speed over the Hyperion Bridge, listening to this tune in my head, I realized my life had meaning and I could be something special.

[@furion..]

I also had many revelations spinning those spokes

[@lovelightshining4444]

😉💙

[@terribleTed-ln6cm]

I couldn't wait to leave sugar mountain forty years ago, but now at the age of sixty I would run back to sugar mountain if I could, but my sugar mountain has been gone for a long time.......but how sweet it would be.

[@staciecarlson191]

At the top of a mountain in Alaska, 1980. Looking out over the vast horizon, this song was always in my head. It was one of the most beautiful moments of my life. I was with someone I loved very much, and we were skiing! The one thing I always wished for, was that someday, my dad could see this place, too. Things didn't go the way I thought they would, but I still hear this song and it takes me right to that place in my mind. I was 18 then. I'm 63 now. I remember it like a picture in my mind. I feel like going back...

[@roslynklippelt5985]

Again, Neil Young, thank you. This song is magic, a big of dreaming and a bit of make believe......and a bit of where we would all love to live.

[@kellyofuller4974]

Hello Roslyn, How are you doing?

[@tomleonard5479]

Such a haunting song. Now that I'm middle-aged and Sugar Mountain is far behind me, this song always brings a tear to my eye. It oddly reminds me of the "Willoughby" episode of "The Twilight Zone." It seems like many of us long for the simpler times of our youths. Thx for posting.

[@MaryEnnismcats77756]

It has always made me think of Willoughby too!!..

[@philmann3476]

Check out "Walking Distance" on Twilight Zone, too. The desire to go home again is strong, and one of the ancient themes.

[@wolfitup1121]

One Of Neil Young's greatest songs.. CANADA!!

[@Arianna-sl2hv]

🇨🇦❤❤❤❤❤

[@charleskerr8415]

Great song, by a great musical artist. Neil Young is an amazing musical artist.

[@ge2623]

He bought Lionel Trains when they were going bankrupt because his kid loved trains and had a mental disability. Talk about a great man.

[@flyingmerkel6]

Ran into an old friend from of mine from childhood. Known him for 50+ years. Time has taken it's toll on both of us, but just for a little while, we remember what it was like being just little kids with a best friend in a big friendly world.

[@204jonesy]

check out Jonathan Richman That Summer Feeling for nostalgic blues

[@penumbra155]

I remember the first time I heard this song. I was 15 and at a summer fair in Flint Hill, Virginia, sometime around '74 or '75. I stood stock still as I listened to the lyrics which imported to me the brevity of life. I listend and looked around and realized that before long, all the people I was there with would, like life's diaspora, be heading out to lead their own lives. What I wouldn't give to see Mom and Dad once again, or Steve and Bucky and Mikey....what a wonderful time of life.

[@johnwise9811]

Thank you Araki for introducing me to this amazing Neil Young song. Sugar Mountain was one of my favorite arcs in Steel Ball Run and now the song is one of my favorite songs to listen to.

[@jayar1818]

This one always makes me misty...reminds me of younger days and continuing my life’s journey without 3 of my best friends...thank you Uncle Neil for helping to keep them in my heart and soul....💔

[@z.9160]

i'm a junior in high school, and i discovered this song back in middle school. my sugar mountain was georgia, where my aunt and my cousins lived. we'd go there every year, my cousins and i running through the hilly streets, my aunt being so kind to me, listening to the beatles. i can't think about how far away i am from that time in my childhood, and how little time i have left, without bawling my eyes out. can't ever make it through this song with dry eyes.

[@z.9160]

i'm turning twenty in a few days ... i really had no idea how much of a child i still was when i wrote that comment.

[@beefdog2011]

It's funny how things go, I grew up with the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, all of the big bands of the 70's and 80's lots of good old music. Still love them, but who keeps me up at night now? Neil.

[@antonioramani8119]

One of his finest ballads, It could have been an highlight in many of his albums, but Neil has so many brilliant songs in his catalogue that he did not publish it until the compilation "decade". Neil is simply the best songwriter ever.

[@huddlestondorrene5564]

my daughter and mine favorite song she died six years ago so I play it for us

[@cranium2001]

Huddleston Dorrene sorry. At least you'll always have this. 😢

[@DMBfan36]

damn dude, trying to bring a grown man to tears? much respect for sharing.

[@willymakeit5172]

May the Lord keep you and her in the palm of his hand. A man my age should not cry over folks he has never met.

[@igorfarias7023]

Remember her and walk on! May you have the strength and good friends to help you in this journey!

[@leegibson3285]

I have three beautiful daughters, couldn't imagine. I lost my sister, when I was younger, the toughest thing I'd ever been through and I've been through some punches in life . May she rest in Love! You'll be with her again. Much love!

[@LLRFILMSLJS]

This song reminds me to always use up what I'm given before the sun sets.

[@SSmith-fm9kg]

Stationed in Denver, 1970, in the USAF, I was going to Tech School and had my radio on in the barracks late at night. This song would play almost every night, as I laid on my bed in the dark. My first base after Tech School was in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Listening to the song at night, I realized I no longer lived on Sugar Mountain. Haven't ever decided if I left there too soon...

[@catherinesquier6847]

so funny this year I finally got it, I have been listening to this song since I was a teen and I am in my sixties now and always thought "the Barkers" were a couple of people he was singing about. One day last summer I was in my car with my little Yorkie singing away while waiting for someone and it hit me "the Barkers" were dogs, oh so appropriate and so Neil Young, ever have a duh! moment, well I did, now I love the song even more

[@kellyofuller4974]

Hello Catherine, How are you doing?

[@KonaSitkaRose]

Ain't nothing like listening to Neil Young when the world feels like it's gone crazy. His lyrics mean so much with the timeless melodies and raspy gold voice, not perfect but perfect enough. Love ya Neil. KonaRose Kona side in coffee belt ♥

[@pattydecker8554]

Perfectly sang

[@Smoker2110]

this song reminds me of my dad who died 6 mos. ago. it's almost unbearably painful to listen to, but it makes me feel closer to him and for that i'm grateful i miss you dad, xoxoxo. i hope you know how much i loved you.

[@lindabarrett6471]

I'm sorry for your loss. Heartstrings can be so bitter sweet. I miss my daddy too. Gone 10 years. I still talk outloud to him.

[@sundayisshowers]

I'm so sorry for your loss, I feel the same. My dad died in April and he was taken too soon, he loved this song and Neil Young. R.I.P to both our dads ❤️

[@Kylemathews1]

I lost my dad in 2010 and it still hurts, i'm looking at his picture while listening to this

[@Smoker2110]

when I miss him I come back to this video and this comment. most of the time it's fine, and I can think about him without too much sadness. but sometimes the pointlessness of all the suffering gets me and I wish for a time when it was simpler just to love my mom and dad.

[@brucetrueasblue]

I swear... I haven't heard this song in 30 years or more. By the number of hits up there, its not exactly a top-40 type that's jammed down your throat, or gets much air-play anywhere... but it's a GEM, that you have to search out. It's worth the search because it gave me goose-bumps, and reminded me what a wonderful childhood I had.

[@RByrne]

This was one of my Dad's favorites, and mine too. He passed away Dec.20/2017. Neil Young was doing his hometown concert on CBC earlier in the month, and my Dad was in hospital with failing kidneys. We watched the TFC game on saturday, and I was supposed to go watch that concert with him the next day on TV, but I was too tired and told him I couldn't make it. His hospital TV didn't work, so he tried sneaking into the staff room to watch the concert there. He fell, though and went into a coma that night. As hard as it was losing him, it definitely makes me laigh everytime I think of him trying to sneak out to watch that concert.

[@johnk3071]

At 65..I sit and play guitar/sing this song over and over lately..it's comforting!!

[@patgal8588]

I first heard this song late 71/early 72. It was on the flip side of Heart Of Gold. I just fell in love with it and still am to this day. It's a song that every adult can relate to.

[@chrisvesy7245]

Havent heard this for 40 years....those were magical times!!😎✌

[@patrickarbelo8907]

This song has the unusual ability to invoke a wistful nostalgia as well as a hunting sadness.

[@alleggs5098]

What a wonderfilled childhood we had living in So. CA. Playing in Kimball park, playing football in the streets with Dale, Danny, & Eddie spaghetti, rolling in the grass, drinking from the water hose. Riding bikes, shooting baskets, shooting marbles, the Boys Club. Beaches, sand filled shoes and sandels. Watching the surfers ride waves, bon fires, where has the time gone. Living on sugar mtn in my mind right now in beautiful green Virginia.

[@williamwilson6499]

I dig what he was going for in this song, and what a great song it is. But I couldn’t wait to get away from my childhood hometown and away from my family. Very few good memories of either. Coming up on 64…parents gone and no contact with siblings. Life goes on.

[@seannoble3235]

The visuals that this song creates always gets me

[@lesliebrooks8284]

Neil has put the words to my feelings on how I miss the innocence of not knowing anything about everything but so exited to find out what it all means, but yes, he puts my feel into words as though he was in my mind......and felt the sadness that was there.

[@johnroot2987]

Just one more great NY song, with a fine photomontage to go with it....all blends well with my cold coffee and a little of this 'n some of that @ 2:25A in a beat-up 1922 hotel, (still got a real icebox, just no place to get a block of ice anymore) on a mild night in Long Beach, (ca) - me and the roaches & Neil, looking back over this life, the wives, kids, friends, now the grandkids. There's still a part of me on Sugar Mountain. I never wanted to leave anyhow. An ageing kid of 68, I should be listening to "Old Man," but this will do, this will do swell. Thanks, Northend.

[@candicenelson875]

No one like him. This rare nsight at such a young age. And all the greats that followed...

[@halogenie1]

I love this song, I've just lost my husband of 39 years xx Noreen United Kingdom xx

[@helenthompson6669]

This is one of my 3 fav. NR songs...Vastly underrated even by him!!!