Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris sing the Neil Young song 'After the Gold Rush' from their 1999 Asylum album 'Trio II'. The song lyrics are below with notes about the song.

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After The Gold Rush (Singers: Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris)

Well I dreamed I saw the knights in armor come
Sayin' something about a queen
There were peasants singing and drummers drumming
And the archer split the tree

There was a fanfare blowing to the sun
There was floating on the breeze
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the Twentieth Century
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the Twentieth Century

I was lying in a burned out basement
With the full moon in my eyes
I was hoping for replacement
When the sun burst through the sky

There was a band playing in my head
And I felt like I could cry
I was thinking about what a friend had said
I was hoping it was a lie
Thinking about what a friend had said
I was hoping it was a lie

I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying
In the yellow haze of the sun
There were children crying and colors flying
All around the chosen ones

All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun
Flying Mother Nature's silver seed
To a new home in the sun
Flying Mother Nature's silver seed
To a new home

Songwriter: Neil Young
[Lyrics from azlyrics.com]

Personnel: Piano - Robby Buchanan, Strings - David Campbell, Harmonica [Glass Armonica] – Dennis James, Strings, Arranged By [Strings] – Linda Ronstadt, Synthesizer – Helen Voices

Wikipedia states:

"After the Gold Rush" is a song written and performed by Neil Young and is the title song from his 1970 album of the same name. In addition to After the Gold Rush, it also appears on the compilation albums Decade, Greatest Hits, and Live Rust. Young has said that he doesn't recall what the song is about. Dolly Parton (who was in the process of recording a cover of the song along with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt) has said, "When we were doing the Trio album, I asked Linda and Emmy what (the song) meant, and they didn't know. So we called Neil Young, and he didn't know. We asked him, flat out, what it meant, and he said, 'Hell, I don't know. I just wrote it. It just depends on what I was taking at the time. I guess every verse has something different I'd taken.'"

"After the Gold Rush" consists of three verses which move forward in time from the past (a medieval celebration), to the present (the singer lying in a burned out basement), and, finally, to the end of humanity's time on Earth (the ascension process in which the "chosen ones" are evacuated from Earth in silver spaceships). On the original recording, in addition to Young's vocals, two instruments are utilized: a piano and a french horn. In the decades since the song was first released, the french horn solo in the song has typically been replaced by a harmonica solo by Young in live performances. The line "Look at Mother Nature on the run / In the 1970s" has been amended by Young in concert over the decades and is currently sung as "Look at Mother Nature on the run / in the 21st century."

Cover versions:

The song has been covered numerous times. Perhaps best known is the 1974 interpretation by the group Prelude, whose a capella version was a top 40 hit all over the globe, especially the United Kingdom where it re-charted in the Top 40 in 1982.

Patti Smith closed her 2012 album Banga with a live cover, recorded with her children.

The country music trio of Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt covered the song on the 1987 album Trio. Parton performed the song during the 2019 Grammys with Maren Morris and Miley Cyrus. The Trio version of the song was also released as a single, and while it received modest radio airplay, a video accompanying the song was very popular on a number of cable video outlets, including CMT.

Billy Corgan performed the song on the October 16, 2017 episode of The Howard Stern Show.

k.d. lang recorded a cover of the song, which she released on her 2004 album, Hymns of the 49th Parallel.

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