There was no plan with that song. I woke up one morning, I was singing - in my mind, I was hearing God Save The Queen. And I'm going, "How about that." When I was a kid and I went to school in Canada, I used to sing it every morning. So I figured, "Well, OK, I’m programmed - singing this song in my head while walking around. Well, I could do that! The Horse - we could play that!" So we tried to play it and it was awful! We couldn’t play it, we had to figure out what tempo it was in and figure out an actual arrangement. I think we had to do like six takes to get it right and then I added the choir to it. Because I could hear what I wanted as we were doing it. Neil Young BBC Radio 4 Front Row interview with John Wilson 2012