This is the third track from Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s 1970 Deja Vu written by David Crosby. It was one of the few tracks that was recorded in the studio with the entire band who were engaged in internal squabbling. The song, written in simple open guitar chords, features a nearly hoarse solo vocal from an emotional David Crosby and some of the most wicked guitar dueling Stephen Stills and Neil Young had ever laid down in a studio.

Written by Crosby as a reflection of the post-Woodstock nation, it, like the musical Hair (1967), links the fashion of the time with the political and emotional zeitgeist of the Baby Boomer generation. While some have praised it as celebrating individualism in the face of repression, others have called it overblown, self-indulgent hippie rhetoric. Crosby has said: “It was the most juvenile set of lyrics I’ve ever written, and it’s certainly not great poetry, but it has a certain emotional impact, there’s no question about that.”