LENINGRAD COWBOYS – Rockin’ In The Free World (live)

The Leningrad Cowboys are a Finnish rock band who perform rock and roll covers of other songs. They have exaggerated pompadour hairstyles and wear long, pointy shoes. They often work with the Russian military band the Alexandrov Ensemble.

“Rockin’ in the Free World” is a song by Canadian-American singer, musician and songwriter Neil Young, released on Young’s seventeenth studio album Freedom (1989). Two versions of the song bookend the album, similarly to “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)” from Young’s Rust Never Sleeps album, one of which is performed with a predominantly acoustic arrangement, and the other predominantly electric. Rolling Stone magazine ranked “Rockin’ In the Free World” number 214 on its “500 Greatest Songs of All Time”.

There’s colors on the street Red, white and blue People shufflin’ their feet People sleepin’ in their shoes But there’s a warnin’ sign on the road ahead There’s a lot of people sayin’ we’d be better off dead Don’t feel like Satan, but I am to them So I try to forget it any way I can

Keep on rockin’ in the free world Keep on rockin’ in the free world Keep on rockin’ in the free world Keep on rockin’ in the free world

I see a woman in the night With a baby in her hand There’s an old street light (near a garbage can) Near a garbage can (near a garbage can) And now she put the kid away and she’s gone to get a hit She hates her life and what she’s done to it There’s one more kid that’ll never go to school Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool

Keep on rockin’ in the free world Keep on rockin’ in the free world Keep on rockin’ in the free world Keep on rockin’ in the free world

We got a thousand points of light For the homeless man We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand We got department stores and toilet paper Got Styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer Got a man of the people, says keep hope alive Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive

Keep on rockin’ in the free world Keep on rockin’ in the free world Keep on rockin’ in the free world Keep on rockin’ in the free world