I have always loved this song and at the same time wondered if Neil ever read a single book on Cortez or the Aztecs. he gets very little right. I could say the same to whoever wrote over this. I presume the answer is no. love Neil all the same.
If he did read he read black legend books because he's wrong in almost everything he said, specially the title since it's Cortes not Cortez and he was not a killer
By far my favorite Neil song . Head almost everyday driving my car . Roll up all windows raise the volume and there I go . Love it . Have the vinyl , tape and of course the CD
The Aztecs knew about war but had no knowledge of what colonial powers had in store for them before it was too late love you Neil Young you are a man of morals and integrity and I was lucky enough to see you live at Finsbury Park over 20 years ago I'm still waiting for us to keep on rocking in free world x
The aztecs enslaved many other people in mesoamerica, human sacrifices were needed, so different cultures were submitted for the shake of those sacrifices
not only did the Aztecs know war, but they also had flower wars when there was no one to fight, just to have sacrifices. Neil is awesome and this song is hauntingly beautiful all the same. I'll read books when I want facts. I've seen Neil dozens of times over the years. he always delivers.
Came off of a 2 week Covid-19 fever listening to Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead, America and Neil Young. I hate who he turned into as an old man... but Young's incredible music can't be denied, no pun intended...
So unbeschreiblich, diese Musik, dieses Gefühl.... Ich glaube, dieser Song ist entstanden, als ich noch gar nicht geboren war...Unglaublich, wie zeitlos gute Musik sein kann. Love you Neil...!!!
I was sure it was "stallions and guns" but these lyrics say "galleons and guns". Both work equally well because Cortez did bring horses, "stallions in his galleons". The stallions left a lasting impact whereas the galleons were simply his mode of transportation.
Horses are not native to North America so it is very relevant and I can see why you would think that. We have wild horses in Nevada and some people think they must have always been there.
Great thanks! Young is my favourite rock artist and this song has been growing in me over the years.. Some of earlier live versions (including the acoustic ones) are just killing me!
He wasn't studying the history very well if he thoughts the Aztecs didn't know about war. Ask the other tribes in Mexico what they thought about the Aztecs, for the Aztecs wouldn't have fallen if not for them. Native Americans and other peoples native to the America's are human and act like human and yet there was this tendency to treat them all like they were woodland elves or nature spirits and not people. Cortez arrived during a period of civil war. It doesn't excuse the atrocities he and the Spanish committed, but the natives knew war. Aztec, Inca, Maya. All that said, fuckin amazing song.
Dead on... thats the way I remember my studies as well, the Aztecs where all about war. So not sure what motive they have for saying they didn't know war. But, hell ya great song.. :-)
your right the aztecs ccould and were extremely cruel at times its nice to look back and find fault but as a christian in todays world we have to know nothing thats ever happened- ever happened except that it was allowed and part of the plan... human sacrifice is never ok lol
@@gracie.arnold Well human sacrifice was a part of their religious practices but it's ridiculous to just focus in on that particular aspect of their culture. Aztec society had far more going for it like advanced mathematics and astronomy. Same thing applies to the Mayan civilization.
Neil has inspired my life in many ways i play the mouth harp to all of his songs he's playing my home twn on my birthday. wow best birthday party of my life . thanks
At first I was about to protest, the Aztecs were conquerors too, known for their bloody sacrifices, but it actually was different... They weren't hateful to the extent that was normal to Europeans by then. In Eurasia, Genghis Khan and the Romans, in their conquests, wiped entire cultures from history. The Aztecs believed in balance at least, they were cruel in their rituals but they never burned libraries or salted the soil like Rome did.
They didn't burn libraries because their culture hadn't developed writing. And I would like to you to elaborate on how being hateful was normal to Europeans in some special way?
@@rudde7918 first of all they did have books and libraries, so you're already wrong. Second of all, I notice you conveniently ignored that I included the Mongols. Thirdly, I was referring to the fact that at that point in European history (and continuing well into modern times) complete obliteration of non-European (read: "civilized") cultures had become a mission. Ironically some of the cultures they considered subhuman were at least as advanced as them in many ways, the people of central Mexico had developed a much more efficient agricultural food production system and had much better understanding of things like sanitation and medicine than Europeans at that time (granted they had lost a lot of that accrued knowledge with the fall of Rome). You seem to want me to say Europeans are somehow inherently evil, but I'm talking about culture and historical fact.
@@rudde7918 dude you obviously have no idea how complex and culturally advanced the Aztecs, Incas, and Maya were. Ironically if you read from the Spaniards' initial writings about their first contact, these were men who had travelled and fought all across Europe and many had been to China as well. They were in awe of Tenochtitlan. For one thing it was the cleanest city they had ever seen, they mentioned how the people all across Mexico would come out every morning to sweep the streets and wash the walls and buildings, how they took pride in their cities. And there was active trade with the north and south, Aztecs goods have been found as far north as Ohio and south in Chile. They had weigh stations for rare birds and turquoise in present day Arizona. There was a merchant class in Aztec society that created trade networks, which the government of course taxed (feds gonna tax, literally every civilization has bureaucrats, the Aztecs did too). There were people in what we now call the Midwest, began building mound structures because legends of cities in the south that the most adventurous merchants had either travelled to or had heard about from the other traders they did business with. There was a whole other world going on over here in "the Americas" before the Europeans came and, for the most part ACCIDENTALLY, destroyed. Fuckin small pox. I have no doubt that Mesoamerican cultures could have adapted to European cultures, learned, incorporated, evolved... if 90% hadn't died of disease.
Daniel Maldonado Sanchez You re right , but his real name was Fernando , Hernan is like an abbreviation like Bill is for William . Anyway he was a mad an evil human being .
Cortez the killer.down by the river.cowgirl in the sand.powderfinger.trasher.out of the weekend.hey hey my my.i believe in u.words between the line of age.natural beauty.harvest.from hanks to hendrix.old man.......neil young with crazy horse and stray gators are the most touching musicians i ever seen
"We" and "They" and "Others" have colonized and claimed lands and peoples for thousands of years - and it's not done. While it is sad from one side, and glad from the other - it is not a crime - it is change - this change is still happening and will always continue. Let go of your cares about that, and you can feel free from the care of it. Neil was not the first to tell this story - but he did a good job of it - and with three chords, yes - and the song is just a wonderful mind-f time-warp of music and chord-progression. I just love the timing - the way he pauses while he sings and lets some dead-air hang, and then says the next work - just like a good mind-trip, drug-induced (or not!) - just a slow wait and see progression of tone and lyric. Good job on this one Neil - timeless! Powder Finger is another good one - tells a story very colorful - such a good musician would do it this way - and Neil did it.
He wrote this in high school, u really think he was thinking about timing and dead air?! Probably better off listening to the words and learn. We do NOT need to intregate war and famon among the pure and thats what Cortez has done. Yay! America! Good job. Im soo fucking glad Im atheist!
One of the best songs I ever listened....buy I am disagree about the history lyrics, all the people fight and kill in the past for colonization, English, Spanish, Nederlanders, Sweden, French....no one kill with kisses....
True, but there are thousands of anti-war rock songs, this is one of them. I suppose you are spanish, put your feet on my shoes, it's not cool when you still see the indigineous people being segregated when they were prosperous on other time (yes, I am mexican)
I get you, I’m spanish myself. Mate, leave the past behind, just history on books 🤷🏻♂️ Live the present world and enjoy the music, that’s something that still gets people united. Cheers!!
You Spanish fut a shak up, we Croats never had colonys, they even took our parts of land(still stolen) Herzegovina, part of Bosnia, Montenegro coast. We've shold do!! Need One Cortez!!!
My best memories of the 1960's & 70's are during events where CSNY , The Mothers & Jimi Hendrix played , it's an odd turn of events that I've seen all the musicians above fucked up out of their minds on stage except Zappa & he died 1st , aside from the OD of Hendrix of course , Neil Young locked himself in his house for a decade banging heroin 12 Times a day & raising chickens , David Crosby liver was shriveled like a raisin from all the dope & he got a transplant , Hendrix was on every drug available most days while Zappa never used drugs & wrote the heaviest music of all , Cortez & Ohio by the CSNY guys bring back so many memories I thought were negative experiences at the time but turned out 40 yrs later to be the best days of my life , I was a broke ex combat vet with no plan & happy , now I'm an old man with plenty of cash & no desire to see America again because the love is gone , the races are further apart now than when I came home from Vietnam in 68 , back then a black guy could hitch hike all over with white people & nobody cared , now if I was seen with white people we'd all get jumped & robbed . You kids have really fucked this place up but good with the political correctness mantra you all worship as a way of life , the ww2 gen is called the finest gen but in reality they were as fucked as millennials , everybody is right & there's no room for free speech , if you speak out you get shouted , or beaten down , the best generation was the 60's & 70's group who practiced live & let live . In 1970 I could travel cross country without a dime in my pocket , always have great food to eat , hot girls to bang & a safe place to party & crash , white people accepted me & blacks were cool or ignored me , now whites are afraid of me & blacks will rob & beat me because we've became savage , if anybody had asked me in 1965 where I thought America would be in 2016 I woulda never dreamed we'd be on the verge of a race war , this song has a message I hope young black men understand like I did & still do .
I’m just a few years younger and, like you, have to shake my head at the cultural devastation that seems to be unfolding. The 60’s and 70’s held such promise - yet, here we are. This song still carries me away, though.
Warfare in Aztec culture predated Cortez by quite a bit, so the idea of hate being a legend and war never being know is a bit of a stretch :) Beautiful song tho, always a favorite
Warfare was central to the city states of Central America. The Aztecs used military power to subjugate other peoples in the area. It was these vassals allying with Cortes against the Aztecs which was crucial in their downfall.
Cortez The Killer Ele veio dançando através da água Com seus galeões e armas Em busca do novo mundo Naquele palácio ao sol Na costa estava Montezuma Com suas folhas de coca e pérolas Em seus salões ele frequentemente vagava Com os segredos dos mundos E seus súditos Reunidos em volta dele Como as folhas ao redor de uma árvore Em suas roupas de muitas cores Para os deuses furiosos verem E todas as mulheres eram lindas E os homens ficaram Direto e forte Eles ofereceram vida em sacrifício Para que outros pudessem continuar O ódio era apenas uma lenda E a guerra nunca foi conhecida As pessoas trabalharam juntas E eles levantaram muitas pedras E eles os carregaram Para as planícies Mas eles morreram no caminho E eles construíram Com as próprias mãos O que ainda não podemos fazer hoje E eu sei que ela está morando lá E ela me ama até hoje Eu ainda não consigo me lembrar quando Ou como eu perdi meu caminho Ele veio dançando através da água Cortez, Cortez Que assassino Cortez The Killer He came dancing across the water With his galleons and guns Looking for the new world In that palace in the sun On the shore lay Montezuma With his coca leaves and pearls In his halls he often wandered With the secrets of the worlds And his subjects Gathered 'round him Like the leaves around a tree In their clothes of many colors For the angry gods to see And the women all were beautiful And the men stood Straight and strong They offered life in sacrifice So that others could go on Hate was just a legend And war was never known The people worked together And they lifted many stones And they carried them To the flatlands But they died along the way And they built up With their bare hands What we still can't do today And I know she's living there And she loves me to this day I still can't remember when Or how I lost my way He came dancing across the water Cortez, Cortez What a killer
Even though the music in Sicario: Day of the Soldado is brilliant, I think Stefano Sollima missed a stroke of mad genius by not using this song in the closing scene.
Just study history... there's a reason Cortes with a few hundred troops could beat the Aztec who had hundreds of thousands - it was the Aztec's neighbors who help - because the Aztec were the worst of the worst!
Rewriting History at its finest. Of course, Montezuma was a wonderful, peace-loving man - who personally sacrificed several human beings to his demon gods on a daily basis, in a temple whose walls were black with a thick coating of dried human blood. And then the skin and body parts were sold in the local marketplace. What's not to love about such an "innocent" society???
Is an amazing song but the lyrics are not true. The aztecs didnt know about war? Ask to the tlxascaltecas, chichimecas and others.You know, heart surgery at the tops of the piramids. Cortes conquered an empire of millions of people with 500 men, 15 horses and a bunch of canyons. Why? Because they detected right away that the aztecs had many enemys in constant war with which the could get a deal. Cortes in not worse than others and praised conquerers like Alexander, Napoleón or Julius Cesar Anyway, a great melody and a great voice. Neil is one of my favourites
Love the music, but the lyrics are pure myth. "Hate was just a legend/War was never known." The Aztecs were human, and humans contain hate. One could reasonably make the case that the Tlaxcalan Indians, who were captured by the Aztecs and sacrificed by the tens of thousands felt hate toward the Aztec, who DID make war upon them to appease their sun god. The Tlaxcalan Indians understandably hated the Aztecs enough to help Cortez destroy this demonic religion of human sacrifice.
"Human sacrifice was a child game in comparison to Cortés massacre..." Right, the sacrifice of tens of thousands of women and children at a time was definitely child's play, some of the sickest child's play in human history.
I used to love Neil Young, I never knew he was such a deluded lefty, lol. Like the other commentors below, I too disagree with his history "lesson". I still like the song/music and I think Neil Young is a great artist. I've just grown out of the leftist lies and fraud.
You must have never actually listened to any Neil then. He is 100% unapologetically a "deluded lefty" as you say. Lol! Luckily we have Ted Nugent to let us know what's right. Right?!
I have always loved this song and at the same time wondered if Neil ever read a single book on Cortez or the Aztecs. he gets very little right. I could say the same to whoever wrote over this. I presume the answer is no. love Neil all the same.
If he did read he read black legend books because he's wrong in almost everything he said, specially the title since it's Cortes not Cortez and he was not a killer
By far my favorite Neil song . Head almost everyday driving my car . Roll up all windows raise the volume and there I go . Love it . Have the vinyl , tape and of course the CD
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The Aztecs knew about war but had no knowledge of what colonial powers had in store for them before it was too late love you Neil Young you are a man of morals and integrity and I was lucky enough to see you live at Finsbury Park over 20 years ago I'm still waiting for us to keep on rocking in free world x
The aztecs enslaved many other people in mesoamerica, human sacrifices were needed, so different cultures were submitted for the shake of those sacrifices
Keep spreading that energy bro
not only did the Aztecs know war, but they also had flower wars when there was no one to fight, just to have sacrifices. Neil is awesome and this song is hauntingly beautiful all the same. I'll read books when I want facts. I've seen Neil dozens of times over the years. he always delivers.
Came off of a 2 week Covid-19 fever listening to Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead, America and Neil Young. I hate who he turned into as an old man... but Young's incredible music can't be denied, no pun intended...
both "down by the river" and "Cortez the killer" are my all time favorites of Neil Young. Thanks for the images~
+Van Cheng also mine
@@073sundog mine and also Powderfinger
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UGH, yes! It's a shame Down by the River and the extended version of Cortez the Killer aren't on Spotify!
So unbeschreiblich, diese Musik, dieses Gefühl.... Ich glaube, dieser Song ist entstanden, als ich noch gar nicht geboren war...Unglaublich, wie zeitlos gute Musik sein kann. Love you Neil...!!!
this song reminds me of my dad and don't really know why!!! he'll have past 3 years ago in Sept not a day goes by I don't think of him
reminds me of my son... same reason
Whose here July 2024 listening to a classic great music 🎶 what a blessing 🙌 🙏
Because of this song,Neil young should be the winner of nobel price of peace.
For lying in a song about the person who liberated the indigenous people?
Lyrics and melody are crafted with a genius mind.
I was sure it was "stallions and guns" but these lyrics say "galleons and guns". Both work equally well because Cortez did bring horses, "stallions in his galleons". The stallions left a lasting impact whereas the galleons were simply his mode of transportation.
Horses are not native to North America so it is very relevant and I can see why you would think that. We have wild horses in Nevada and some people think they must have always been there.
his music says it all takes you to a better place peace within youself
Well said , brother
So many great great songs but this and Sugar Mountain make a grown man cry.
Rocked the lane with that song gotta luv it❤ sending luv!
Great thanks! Young is my favourite rock artist and this song has been growing in me over the years.. Some of earlier live versions (including the acoustic ones) are just killing me!
He wasn't studying the history very well if he thoughts the Aztecs didn't know about war. Ask the other tribes in Mexico what they thought about the Aztecs, for the Aztecs wouldn't have fallen if not for them. Native Americans and other peoples native to the America's are human and act like human and yet there was this tendency to treat them all like they were woodland elves or nature spirits and not people. Cortez arrived during a period of civil war. It doesn't excuse the atrocities he and the Spanish committed, but the natives knew war. Aztec, Inca, Maya.
All that said, fuckin amazing song.
Dead on... thats the way I remember my studies as well, the Aztecs where all about war. So not sure what motive they have for saying they didn't know war. But, hell ya great song.. :-)
your right the aztecs ccould and were extremely cruel at times its nice to look back and find fault but as a christian in todays world we have to know nothing thats ever happened- ever happened except that it was allowed and part of the plan... human sacrifice is never ok lol
@@gracie.arnold
Well human sacrifice was a part of their religious practices but it's ridiculous to just focus in on that particular aspect of their culture. Aztec society had far more going for it like advanced mathematics and astronomy. Same thing applies to the Mayan civilization.
@@LogicInternet
Oh please! 🙏
It's just the songwriter's way of being creative with his lyrics. You're reading too much into it.
Neil Young was studying history fine. Don't be so obtuse over the his use of artistic license in the song lyrics. Jeezus, buddy! 🙄
Neil has inspired my life in many ways i play the mouth harp to all of his songs he's playing my home twn on my birthday. wow best birthday party of my life . thanks
Very good, great song!
Thanks reddog5889! Very good job! This song for some reason makes me feel ecstatic! I think Neil Young is for music what Einstein is for physics.
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I have learned something new
Thanks for making this video
Great job with the video 👍
At first I was about to protest, the Aztecs were conquerors too, known for their bloody sacrifices, but it actually was different...
They weren't hateful to the extent that was normal to Europeans by then. In Eurasia, Genghis Khan and the Romans, in their conquests, wiped entire cultures from history. The Aztecs believed in balance at least, they were cruel in their rituals but they never burned libraries or salted the soil like Rome did.
They didn't burn libraries because their culture hadn't developed writing. And I would like to you to elaborate on how being hateful was normal to Europeans in some special way?
@@rudde7918 first of all they did have books and libraries, so you're already wrong. Second of all, I notice you conveniently ignored that I included the Mongols.
Thirdly, I was referring to the fact that at that point in European history (and continuing well into modern times) complete obliteration of non-European (read: "civilized") cultures had become a mission. Ironically some of the cultures they considered subhuman were at least as advanced as them in many ways, the people of central Mexico had developed a much more efficient agricultural food production system and had much better understanding of things like sanitation and medicine than Europeans at that time (granted they had lost a lot of that accrued knowledge with the fall of Rome). You seem to want me to say Europeans are somehow inherently evil, but I'm talking about culture and historical fact.
@@rudde7918 dude you obviously have no idea how complex and culturally advanced the Aztecs, Incas, and Maya were. Ironically if you read from the Spaniards' initial writings about their first contact, these were men who had travelled and fought all across Europe and many had been to China as well.
They were in awe of Tenochtitlan.
For one thing it was the cleanest city they had ever seen, they mentioned how the people all across Mexico would come out every morning to sweep the streets and wash the walls and buildings, how they took pride in their cities.
And there was active trade with the north and south, Aztecs goods have been found as far north as Ohio and south in Chile. They had weigh stations for rare birds and turquoise in present day Arizona. There was a merchant class in Aztec society that created trade networks, which the government of course taxed (feds gonna tax, literally every civilization has bureaucrats, the Aztecs did too). There were people in what we now call the Midwest, began building mound structures because legends of cities in the south that the most adventurous merchants had either travelled to or had heard about from the other traders they did business with.
There was a whole other world going on over here in "the Americas" before the Europeans came and, for the most part ACCIDENTALLY, destroyed.
Fuckin small pox.
I have no doubt that Mesoamerican cultures could have adapted to European cultures, learned, incorporated, evolved... if 90% hadn't died of disease.
@@rudde7918 they didn't develop their own language, but instead used pieces of others along with pictures.
Always loved this song but never knew the story behind it. Thanks !
Fernando Cortez ....History of America
Hernán Cortés later
Daniel Maldonado Sanchez You re right , but his real name was Fernando , Hernan is like an abbreviation like Bill is for William . Anyway he was a mad an evil human being .
read some books on it. they were an interesting people, and few facts were mentioned here.
Cortez the killer.down by the river.cowgirl in the sand.powderfinger.trasher.out of the weekend.hey hey my my.i believe in u.words between the line of age.natural beauty.harvest.from hanks to hendrix.old man.......neil young with crazy horse and stray gators are the most touching musicians i ever seen
"We" and "They" and "Others" have colonized and claimed lands and peoples for thousands of years - and it's not done. While it is sad from one side, and glad from the other - it is not a crime - it is change - this change is still happening and will always continue. Let go of your cares about that, and you can feel free from the care of it. Neil was not the first to tell this story - but he did a good job of it - and with three chords, yes - and the song is just a wonderful mind-f time-warp of music and chord-progression. I just love the timing - the way he pauses while he sings and lets some dead-air hang, and then says the next work - just like a good mind-trip, drug-induced (or not!) - just a slow wait and see progression of tone and lyric. Good job on this one Neil - timeless! Powder Finger is another good one - tells a story very colorful - such a good musician would do it this way - and Neil did it.
He wrote this in high school, u really think he was thinking about timing and dead air?! Probably better off listening to the words and learn. We do NOT need to intregate war and famon among the pure and thats what Cortez has done. Yay! America! Good job. Im soo fucking glad Im atheist!
One of the best songs I ever listened....buy I am disagree about the history lyrics, all the people fight and kill in the past for colonization, English, Spanish, Nederlanders, Sweden, French....no one kill with kisses....
True, but there are thousands of anti-war rock songs, this is one of them. I suppose you are spanish, put your feet on my shoes, it's not cool when you still see the indigineous people being segregated when they were prosperous on other time (yes, I am mexican)
Lets all fight, FUCK sharing
I get you, I’m spanish myself.
Mate, leave the past behind, just history on books 🤷🏻♂️
Live the present world and enjoy the music, that’s something that still gets people united. Cheers!!
You Spanish fut a shak up, we Croats never had colonys, they even took our parts of land(still stolen) Herzegovina, part of Bosnia, Montenegro coast. We've shold do!! Need One Cortez!!!
wrong it where the danish wikings i know i am danish
sing it Neil!! play it Neil!!!
My best memories of the 1960's & 70's are during events where CSNY , The Mothers & Jimi Hendrix played , it's an odd turn of events that I've seen all the musicians above fucked up out of their minds on stage except Zappa & he died 1st , aside from the OD of Hendrix of course , Neil Young locked himself in his house for a decade banging heroin 12 Times a day & raising chickens , David Crosby liver was shriveled like a raisin from all the dope & he got a transplant , Hendrix was on every drug available most days while Zappa never used drugs & wrote the heaviest music of all , Cortez & Ohio by the CSNY guys bring back so many memories I thought were negative experiences at the time but turned out 40 yrs later to be the best days of my life , I was a broke ex combat vet with no plan & happy , now I'm an old man with plenty of cash & no desire to see America again because the love is gone , the races are further apart now than when I came home from Vietnam in 68 , back then a black guy could hitch hike all over with white people & nobody cared , now if I was seen with white people we'd all get jumped & robbed .
You kids have really fucked this place up but good with the political correctness mantra you all worship as a way of life , the ww2 gen is called the finest gen but in reality they were as fucked as millennials , everybody is right & there's no room for free speech , if you speak out you get shouted , or beaten down , the best generation was the 60's & 70's group who practiced live & let live .
In 1970 I could travel cross country without a dime in my pocket , always have great food to eat , hot girls to bang & a safe place to party & crash , white people accepted me & blacks were cool or ignored me , now whites are afraid of me & blacks will rob & beat me because we've became savage , if anybody had asked me in 1965 where I thought America would be in 2016 I woulda never dreamed we'd be on the verge of a race war , this song has a message I hope young black men understand like I did & still do .
you are a cool dude. i am a child of the 90s but always wish i could have been a part of your generation
I’m just a few years younger and, like you, have to shake my head at the cultural devastation that seems to be unfolding. The 60’s and 70’s held such promise - yet, here we are.
This song still carries me away, though.
🙏🙏🙏🙏blessed u are ...
“Aztecs we’re not of hateful people and war was unknown”
lol, no.
no le quita lo extraordinario a la canción. igual que like a hurracaine y cimanon girl saca chispas
Joey did you ever here this one? " still cant remember when or how i lost my way...." baby boy miss u so very much
Warfare in Aztec culture predated Cortez by quite a bit, so the idea of hate being a legend and war never being know is a bit of a stretch :) Beautiful song tho, always a favorite
They didn’t know modern warfare
Especially not what the Spanish were bringing
Warfare was central to the city states of Central America. The Aztecs used military power to subjugate other peoples in the area. It was these vassals allying with Cortes against the Aztecs which was crucial in their downfall.
looking to Neil for facts may be the problem here. great song, the end.
RAD song!
Dude...this guy knew nothing about what happened? Cortés is not the only conqueror that the world has seen, but for sure one of the best.
Cortez The Killer
Ele veio dançando através da água
Com seus galeões e armas
Em busca do novo mundo
Naquele palácio ao sol
Na costa estava Montezuma
Com suas folhas de coca e pérolas
Em seus salões ele frequentemente vagava
Com os segredos dos mundos
E seus súditos
Reunidos em volta dele
Como as folhas ao redor de uma árvore
Em suas roupas de muitas cores
Para os deuses furiosos verem
E todas as mulheres eram lindas
E os homens ficaram
Direto e forte
Eles ofereceram vida em sacrifício
Para que outros pudessem continuar
O ódio era apenas uma lenda
E a guerra nunca foi conhecida
As pessoas trabalharam juntas
E eles levantaram muitas pedras
E eles os carregaram
Para as planícies
Mas eles morreram no caminho
E eles construíram
Com as próprias mãos
O que ainda não podemos fazer hoje
E eu sei que ela está morando lá
E ela me ama até hoje
Eu ainda não consigo me lembrar quando
Ou como eu perdi meu caminho
Ele veio dançando através da água
Cortez, Cortez
Que assassino
Cortez The Killer
He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for the new world
In that palace in the sun
On the shore lay Montezuma
With his coca leaves and pearls
In his halls he often wandered
With the secrets of the worlds
And his subjects
Gathered 'round him
Like the leaves around a tree
In their clothes of many colors
For the angry gods to see
And the women all were beautiful
And the men stood
Straight and strong
They offered life in sacrifice
So that others could go on
Hate was just a legend
And war was never known
The people worked together
And they lifted many stones
And they carried them
To the flatlands
But they died along the way
And they built up
With their bare hands
What we still can't do today
And I know she's living there
And she loves me to this day
I still can't remember when
Or how I lost my way
He came dancing across the water
Cortez, Cortez
What a killer
The more I know about the aztecs the more I like Cortez for killing them.
Thanks, Neil,........
più di ogni altra, la mia canzone. my song
Capolavoro!!!!!
No sé quién le enseñó Historia en el Instituto, pero no le enseñaron la verdad de la Historia de Cortés en América.
This video is great. Good job!
"The aztecs didn't know what war was" ? 😄😄😄 They built their empire with violence. Of course.
One of my favorite songs. Too bad the neilyoungchannel does not allow us to comment to let him know.
Aztecs were cannibals.
Americans are too.....
So is your mom
Les vraies cannibales sont les conquérants espagnoles !!!
Moctezuma didn't consume coca leaves. They are Aymara's culture.
That’s what you get when a Canadian singer drops for holidays!
Even though the music in Sicario: Day of the Soldado is brilliant, I think Stefano Sollima missed a stroke of mad genius by not using this song in the closing scene.
For you Sparrow 😇
This song was banned in Spain !
Boom!
kind of inaccurate as far as the war and peaceful people description goes, love the song though!
Just study history... there's a reason Cortes with a few hundred troops could beat the Aztec who had hundreds of thousands - it was the Aztec's neighbors who help - because the Aztec were the worst of the worst!
They were definitely not peaceful, but no one has a such violent history as western europeans, any respectable history book can vouche that
planetterrible do some research buddy
Trust me, I live a life withOUT god. VERY peaceful. Without religion there IS hope
Rewriting History at its finest.
Of course, Montezuma was a wonderful, peace-loving man - who personally sacrificed several human beings to his demon gods on a daily basis, in a temple whose walls were black with a thick coating of dried human blood. And then the skin and body parts were sold in the local marketplace.
What's not to love about such an "innocent" society???
I prefer the Live Rust version,but this kills too.
SOY AZTECA
Con apellido español.
No the Aztecs DID NOT KNOW WAR!
Is an amazing song but the lyrics are not true. The aztecs didnt know about war? Ask to the tlxascaltecas, chichimecas and others.You know, heart surgery at the tops of the piramids.
Cortes conquered an empire of millions of people with 500 men, 15 horses and a bunch of canyons. Why? Because they detected right away that the aztecs had many enemys in constant war with which the could get a deal. Cortes in not worse than others and praised conquerers like Alexander, Napoleón or Julius Cesar
Anyway, a great melody and a great voice. Neil is one of my favourites
The Aztecs knew plenty about war. But not the European kind.
Love the music, but the lyrics are pure myth. "Hate was just a legend/War was never known." The Aztecs were human, and humans contain hate. One could reasonably make the case that the Tlaxcalan Indians, who were captured by the Aztecs and sacrificed by the tens of thousands felt hate toward the Aztec, who DID make war upon them to appease their sun god. The Tlaxcalan Indians understandably hated the Aztecs enough to help Cortez destroy this demonic religion of human sacrifice.
Human sacrifice was a child game in comparison to Cortés massacre. Check out for "Cholula massacre" and others (sorry for my english)
"Human sacrifice was a child game in comparison to Cortés massacre..." Right, the sacrifice of tens of thousands of women and children at a time was definitely child's play, some of the sickest child's play in human history.
Probably but it's still an awesome song!
What he means is that the concept of war on Mesoamerica was way different than that of the europeans, reason of their defeat along with religion
Where did you get that "tens of thousands" number even from? Most of what you read from spanish sources is mere propaganda
great song, but lyrics not so convincing...
🅱️ool
Aztecs had him !!! but....!!!
Y LA HISTORIA NO FUE ASI
This song banned in fuckn spain
Boring song, but good video about Neil and his life and carrier.
Psycodelic song man.. smoke a joint and listen again
I used to love Neil Young, I never knew he was such a deluded lefty, lol. Like the other commentors below, I too disagree with his history "lesson". I still like the song/music and I think Neil Young is a great artist. I've just grown out of the leftist lies and fraud.
You must have never actually listened to any Neil then. He is 100% unapologetically a "deluded lefty" as you say. Lol! Luckily we have Ted Nugent to let us know what's right. Right?!
@@TheUser37 right on Sockittomechimp...Make America Great Again invade Venuzala
@@TheUser37Ted isn't that bright either but neil is still deluded lefty