Don't Let It Bring You Down

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“Don't Let It Bring You Down”
Song by Neil Young
Album After the Gold Rush
Released September 19, 1970
Recorded Aug. 1969-June 1970
Genre Rock
Length 2:56
Label Reprise
Writer Neil Young
After the Gold Rush track listing
"Oh, Lonesome Me"
(6)
Don't Let It Bring You Down
(7)
"Birds"
(8)


"Don't Let It Bring You Down" is the seventh track on Neil Young's album After the Gold Rush. It was written by Young. It also appears on the 1971 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young live album Four Way Street as well as Young's 2007 album Live at Massey Hall 1971, which was recorded in 1971.

[edit] Cover versions

The song was covered by Sting's pre-Police band Last Exit, as part of their 1974 Impulse Studio Demos.

It was also covered by Victoria Williams on the 1989 anthology album The Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young.

Annie Lennox covered the song on her 1995 Medusa album; her version also appeared in the movie American Beauty (1999), although it wasn't included on the film's soundtrack album.

A performance of the song by Seal appears on his 2006 live album One Night to Remember.

The alternative rock band Q And Not U covered the song for their compilation album "Don't Know When I'll Be Back Again".

The 1990s alternative rock band Weeping Tile covered the song on their first album, "eePee".