What Are Their Names (Young/Garcia/Lesh/Shrieve/Crosby)
I wonder who they are, the men who
really run this land
And I wonder why they run it with such a
thoughtless hand
What are their names and on what streets
do they live
I'd like to ride right over this
afternoon
And give them a piece of my mind
about peace for mankind
Peace is not an awful lot to ask
David Crosby 1971
"If I Could Only Remember My
Name.."
Barncard (the producer) tells on YouTube 2012: After I recorded
the track for this on David's first solo album he told me he was inspired to
write the words on the back of an envelope during a flight somewhere. Later,
in the studio after laying down the tracks for one of the many jams that
went down with Garcia, Lesh, Crosby, and Shreve, David did the vocal, then
asked almost everyone in the combined voices of members of the Dead, the
Airplane and even Joni Mitchell to join in the vocal chorus
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