# Songs that say we should all marry a hippie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 22, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-say-we-should-all-marry-a-hippie/959902 "2022-02-22T01:09:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ukulele_ike1/32/4613_2.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike1)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-say-we-should-all-marry-a-hippie/959902/1 "2022-02-22T01:09:58Z")
Mods: I don’t think this is sexist, do you? Hope not! Okay, so I was doing the dinner dishes tonight and switched Spotify from the complete Haydn string quartets to The Association channel, because I needed more organ and recorder for the ordeal. Midway through scrubbing the wok I caught myself singing along to “Windy.” Wow, blast back to when I was seven years old and played this on the jukebox alla time. Who WOULDN’T want to spend their life with a girl who has wings to fly, above the clouds? Most of my girlfriends since the 70s have been hippies. I married a hippie. My 31 year old daughter and 25 year old son are hippies. How many 60s-70s and beyond songs have enticed boys and girls to embrace lifelong hippie companions for years of connubial bliss and swirling to psychedelic rock? The Association: “Windy;” “Along Comes Mary” (the latter is as much a weed love song as a hippie love song) The Grateful Dead: “The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion” Edison Lighthouse: “Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes” Include links for the less obvious ones! ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-say-we-should-all-marry-a-hippie/959902/2 "2022-02-22T01:26:16Z")
I don’t know about marrying a hippie but I sure dig a hippie wedding. Bring a surfboard and you won’t have to dance. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-say-we-should-all-marry-a-hippie/959902/3 "2022-02-22T01:28:00Z")
I can’t think of a song that’s exactly about marrying a hippie, but does Neil Young’s “Cinnamon Girl” count? Hey, at least it has the line “I wanna live with a Cinnamon Girl, I could be happy the rest of my life with a Cinnamon Girl”. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/jREf47BPe5w/maxresdefault.jpg "Cinnamon Girl (2009 Remaster)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREf47BPe5w) Maybe also his “Unknown Legend” counts: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PJNYjaZ_29k/hqdefault.jpg "Neil Young - Unknown Legend.avi") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJNYjaZ_29k) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ukulele_ike1/32/4613_2.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike1)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-say-we-should-all-marry-a-hippie/959902/4 "2022-02-22T01:32:44Z")
I just put “marry” in the title so mods wouldn’t come down on me like a ton of bricks. “Fuck” may be substituted. Although I’m expecting you to be allured into a longer relationship with this hairy patchouli-scented male or female. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-say-we-should-all-marry-a-hippie/959902/5 "2022-02-22T01:35:35Z")
In this case, I think Richard Thompson’s great “Beeswing” also counts. It’s a nostalgic homage to a hippie girl, though wanting to marry her is exactly what destroys the relationship. I as a listener always fall in love with the woman in that song: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/YsKEMZW8VmE/maxresdefault.jpg "Beeswing") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsKEMZW8VmE) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ukulele_ike1/32/4613_2.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike1)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-say-we-should-all-marry-a-hippie/959902/6 "2022-02-22T01:52:13Z")
That was absolutely beautiful. I love Thompson and didn’t know that one. Exactly what I mean. The Hollies’s “Bus Stop” is a hippie love song, but the woman is probably a cashier in a tobacconists. Not a supernatural being. I’m looking for the Dead’s “Laughing in her eyes, dancing in her feet, she’s a neon light diamond, she can live on the street.” ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-say-we-should-all-marry-a-hippie/959902/7 "2022-02-22T02:06:15Z")
There’s both a hippie wife AND a hippie dog in Me and You and a Dog Named Boo. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KMSnhCuQVjU/maxresdefault.jpg "Lobo - Me And You And A Dog Named Boo • TopPop") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMSnhCuQVjU) If we’re talking about something a little less permanent than marriage, there’s Kris Kristofferson’s original Me and Bobby McGee. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/szvTNYIPjP0/maxresdefault.jpg "Me and Bobby McGee") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szvTNYIPjP0) And for something even more transitory, Sammy John’s Chevy Van. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RiEIToOWr64/hqdefault.jpg "chevy van") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiEIToOWr64) ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-say-we-should-all-marry-a-hippie/959902/8 "2022-02-22T02:16:03Z")
Ms. P, a nice upper middle class Jewish girl, married a long-haired liberal hillbilly from East Tennessee. We both have some hippie in us. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-say-we-should-all-marry-a-hippie/959902/9 "2022-02-22T02:19:37Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > In this case, I think Richard Thompson’s great “Beeswing” also counts. It’s a nostalgic homage to a hippie girl, though wanting to marry her is exactly what destroys the relationship. I as a listener always fall in love with the woman in that song: > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsKEMZW8VmE&ab\_channel=RichardThompson-Topic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsKEMZW8VmE&ab_channel=RichardThompson-Topic) If you ask me some random day which is my favorite song of all time, there is a solid chance that “Beeswing” will be my answer. Nice post. mmm > [@](#): > > And I said that we might settle down, get a few acres dug > Fire burning in the hearth and babies on the rug > She said “Oh man, you foolish man, it surely sounds like hell > You might be lord of half the world, you’ll not own me as well” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-say-we-should-all-marry-a-hippie/959902/10 "2022-02-22T02:36:57Z")
How about, “The Rain, The Park And Other Things”? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/dZMc0-ZAUeY/maxresdefault.jpg "THE COWSILLS I LOVE THE FLOWER GIRL -OFFICIALLY TITLED: THE RAIN, THE PARK AND OTHER THINGS.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZMc0-ZAUeY) ---
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The marrying kind [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oPwq0YoOy4g/hqdefault.jpg "John Prine - Spanish Pipedream") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPwq0YoOy4g) Definitely not the marrying kind [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-y2NXDa9970/maxresdefault.jpg "Jackson Browne “Take It Easy” (Live with The Eagles and Linda Ronstadt)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y2NXDa9970) ---
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The song makes me want to hurl, but it was the first thing I thought of. ---
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Pure Prairie League has a whole album about loving hippie girls. _Bustin’ Out_ came out in 1972 and I remember listening to it over and over, dreaming of a hippie life in the Colorado mountains. Boulder Skies _Sew your skirt lace out of time_ _While I write the words to rhyme_ _Just what I am thinking, and just what I should say_ _If I have to go, I’d rather stay_ _Colorado canyon girl who set me free_ _Brown eyes in the morning looking back at me_ [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/FuXaIBGH248/maxresdefault.jpg "Pure Prairie League - Boulder Skies") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuXaIBGH248) ---
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Jennifer Juniper, by Donovan “Jennifer Juniper, rides a dappled mare Jennifer Juniper, lilacs in her hair Is she dreaming? Yes, I think so Is she pretty? Yes, ever so Whatcha doing, Jennifer, my love?” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/l-7LgSy6cT0/maxresdefault.jpg "Jennifer Juniper DONOVAN (with lyrics)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-7LgSy6cT0) ---
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> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I can’t think of a song that’s exactly about marrying a hippie, but does Neil Young’s “Cinnamon Girl” count? Hey, at least it has the line “I wanna live with a Cinnamon Girl, I could be happy the rest of my life with a Cinnamon Girl”. I would’ve sworn the titular cinnamon girl was supposed to be heroin. The last verse certainly does make the singer sound like a desperate junkie in need of a fix; _Pa, send me money now_ _I’m going to make it somehow_ _I need another chance_ _You see your baby loves to dance_ ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-say-we-should-all-marry-a-hippie/959902/16 "2022-02-22T09:12:07Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I would’ve sworn the titular cinnamon girl was supposed to be heroin. The last verse certainly does make the singer sound like a desperate junkie in need of a fix; I honestly never thought about any interpretation other than that it is a song about a girl, maybe a groupie (“ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow, the drummer relaxes and waits between shows for my Cinnamon Girl”). I don’t see any connection to drugs, let alone heroin, which never was the drug of choice for Neil Young anyway. ---
**Author:** ![its\_the\_daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bb73d2/32.png) [@its\_the\_daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/its_the_daddy)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-say-we-should-all-marry-a-hippie/959902/17 "2022-02-22T09:17:30Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > If you ask me some random day which is my favorite song of all time, there is a solid chance that “Beeswing” will be my answer. It’s said (can’t find a cite) that it was inspired by the great Anne Briggs: no way biographical, but she was a bit that way in her early days… For a backwards view, can I nominate Joni M’s “Cactus Tree”? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qSHcAfalhP4/maxresdefault.jpg "Cactus Tree") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSHcAfalhP4) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-say-we-should-all-marry-a-hippie/959902/18 "2022-02-22T09:18:30Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > “ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow, the drummer relaxes and waits between shows for my Cinnamon Girl” It’s “waits between shows for his cinnamon girl”. I got the impression that the drummer needed his fix between sets just like the singer does. Young is on record as having never used the stuff, but “The Needle and the Damage Done” is explicitly about heroin, so it’s not as it’s something he wouldn’t write about. Cinnamon Girl is easily one of Young’s proto-grunge songs, and most of the guys who took inspiration from songs like that were definitely on heroin, as were Lou Reed and Iggy Pop, the only other people around that time who were making songs that sounded like that, which I feel influences the subtext. FWIW, a Google search found this thread from another board where a number of people also think it’s about heroin; > **[Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl Lyrics Meaning](https://www.lyricinterpretations.com/neil-young/cinnamon-girl)** > > What does Neil Young's song Cinnamon Girl mean? We have the answer. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-say-we-should-all-marry-a-hippie/959902/19 "2022-02-22T09:23:23Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Young is on record as having never used the stuff, but “The Needle and the Damage Done” is explicitly about heroin, so it’s not as it’s something he wouldn’t write about. I know that, and that’s exactly the point: all his songs about heroin (another one being “Tonight’s The Night”) don’t celebrate it, but condemn it like “The Needle And The Damage Done”, that’s why I doubt that “Cinnamon Girl” is a song celebrating heroin. ---
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> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > that’s why I doubt that “Cinnamon Girl” is a song celebrating heroin. I wouldn’t say it’s celebrating heroin. I’d say it’s sung from the perspective of a junkie who only feels good when he’s with his “cinnamon girl”, but he’s running out of money and he’s convinced that everything will be alright if he can just hang on for long enough even it means begging his dad for cash. He’s headed for a bad end and he doesn’t realize it because all he can think about is the next fix. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-say-we-should-all-marry-a-hippie/959902.md?page=2)