This is a new song that I wrote about my ranch. I live on a ranch now. Lucky me ... there's this old man who lives on it, that uh...he came with the place when I bought it. Ranches have foremen you know usually that sort of like stay there with the cows, no matter who owns it. He's about seventy years old or something like that. Neil Young Massey Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada January 19, 1971, Early Show

This is a song I wrote about a place I live - in Northern California. I have a ranch that I live on. I've only been there for a couple of months. And when I moved on there - when I bought the place - the first time I went there there was this old guy about seventy years old. I went there with a real estate lady and she showed me the place. She took me out in this blue jeep. Drove me around. Took me through the woods and everything. Showed me all the cattle. He was just sort of like - I don't how to explain - that he was so much like the land that he was almost a tree or something. He had the spirit. So I wrote a song about him. Neil Young Music Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, USA January 21, 1971, Late Show

This is a new song I wrote about my ranch. I live on a ranch in California. I just bought it a while ago from these two lawyers. There was an old man living on it. I don't know if you have things like that here - like foremen on ranches? It's like a old caretaker that takes care of all of the cows and fences and everything. So I wrote this song for him. Neil Young BBC TV Studios, London, England February 23, 1971

This is a new song I wrote about my ranch. I live on a ranch in California. I just bought it a while ago from this two lawyers. There was an old man living on it. I don't know if you have things like that here - like foremen on ranches? It's like a old caretaker that takes care of all of the cows and fences and everything. So I wrote this song for him. Neil Young Royal Festival Hall, London, England February 27, 1971

I wrote this for the caretaker of my ranch after I purchased it in 1970. Special thanks to James Taylor for his banjo playing. Neil Young Decade liner notes 1977