Cough Up the Buck$: Song of the Day | NYA

Cough Up the Buck$

"Cough Up The Buck$" was the Song of the Day last Thursday on Neil Young Archives.

From the 2009 "Fork In The Road" album, the song excoriates the Wall St. bailout by taxpayers. The fourth hand-made video for the album, Neil had been quietly making these videos completely on his own, with nothing more than a simple camera and an idea. Filmed in Wichita, Kansas, Neil was also hard at work on the The LincVolt Project.

In his comment on the Song of the Day, Neil Young writes of the financial meltdown and bailout: "There is a piece of history if I ever saw one."

Neil Young - "Cough Up the Buck$" Video

In the "Cough Up the Buck$" official music video, Neil Young performs as a Wall Street executive in the back of a limousine, wheeling and dealing while talking on a cell phone.


"Where did all the money go ?
Where did all the cash flow ?
Where did all the money go?"

Cough Up The Buck$ Crew
HarryO, Volume Drinkers: Brand New Guy, Paul D.
Madison Square Garden, NYC, NY - 12/15/2008
Hearing Neil debut a song like "Cough Up The Buck$" about corporate welfare and reckless greed at Madison Square Garden in New York City -- blocks from Wall St. -- was like going into the lion's den with red meat. Another priceless memory. Particularly, attending with the "Cough Up The Buck$ Crew"! (see photo above)


Protesters on Wall St. September 2008
For the Turnstiles

"All the sailors with their seasick mamas
Hear the sirens on the shore,
Singin' songs for pimps with tailors
Who charge ten dollars at the door."


There's A Bailout Comin' and It's Not For You

ps - it's only fuckin' money.

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