“Cinnamon Girl”
by Smashing Pumpkins (originally by Neil Young)
from the album Pisces Iscariot (Remastered)
1994
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The Pumpkins again? Sue me. Billy picks great songs to cover and they do them up. Besides featuring a repeat artist, this song also qualifies for the popular I had never heard the original until I realized the cover was a cover lament. I wanna be a Neil Young guy, I really do. But I guess I’m just not ready for a one-to-one relationship with him. Sorry Neil, we’re gonna have have to connect via covers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-Htdvz8rsk
How much fun is this track? First off, it’s got the Pumpkins playing bit raw without too much flourish and studio wizardry that would overshadow their playing on later releases. It’s like you stumbled across them playing in a friend’s (acoustically awesome) garage. And you have to give up to Mr. Young for the riff and the lyrics.
I wanna live with a cinnamon girl
I could be happy the rest of my life
With a cinnamon girlA dreamer of pictures
I run in the night
You see us together, chasing the moonlight,
My cinnamon girl.Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow
The drummer relaxes and waits between shows
For his cinnamon girlA dreamer of pictures I run in the night
You see us together, chasing the moonlight,
My cinnamon girl.Pa sent me money now
I’m gonna make it somehow
I need another chance
You see your baby loves to dance
Who doesn’t want a cinnamon girl?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAdtUDaBfRA&feature=kp