Pocahontas é um sucesso de Neil Young gravada nos anos 1970

'Pocahontas' é uma música de Neil Young publicada no álbum Rust Never Sleeps em 1979 mas que originalmente havia sido gravada em meados doa anos 1970 para o planejado (mas nunca lançado) disco "Chrome Dreams". Young pode ter se inspirado após ter lido o poema de Hart Crane, 'The Bridge', em Londres, em 1971. A princesa Pocahontas, uma nativa americana, é a personagem central da obra. Aqui, trago a versão de Young para o programa Acústico MTV, qravado em 1993. Espero que você curta!

Pocahontas

Neil Young

Aurora borealis

The icy sky at night

Paddles cut the water

In a long and hurried flight

From the white man

to the fields of green

And the homeland

we've never seen.

They killed us in our tepee

And they cut our women down

They might have left some babies

Cryin' on the ground

But the firesticks

and the wagons come

And the night falls

on the setting sun.

They massacred the buffalo

Kitty corner from the bank

The taxis run across my feet

And my eyes have turned to blanks

In my little box

at the top of the stairs

With my Indian rug

and a pipe to share.

I wish a was a trapper

I would give thousand pelts

To sleep with Pocahontas

And find out how she felt

In the mornin'

on the fields of green

In the homeland

we've never seen.

And maybe Marlon Brando

Will be there by the fire

We'll sit and talk of Hollywood

And the good things there for hire

And the Astrodome

and the first tepee

Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me

Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me

Pocahontas.

Leia o livro que inspirou Neil Young a compor 'Pocahontas'

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0871402254/ref=rdr_ext_tmb