Name: Wasn't Born To Follow
Duration: 3 min 51 s
Channel: Carole King / Gerry Goffin
Description: Free MP3 download. I first heard this song in the movie (film) Easy Rider. I liked it a lot right then. I liked the spinning phasing effect in the instrumental section. I used my Parker Fly guitar for all the wild and wacky guitar solo parts.

Wasn't Born To Follow

Major Snagg

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I first heard this song in the movie (film) Easy Rider. I liked it a lot right then. I liked the spinning phasing effect in the instrumental section. I used my Parker Fly guitar for all the wild and wacky guitar solo parts.

major snagg

Major Snagg

Pop/Rock, Psychedelic, Ambient, Rhythm & Blues and beyond.

Major Snagg is the invented name of the 'band' that perform all my own musical creations. (songs and instrumentals). I play guitars, bass, rudimentary keyboards, harmonica, and sing. Melody has always been important to me... lyrics and guitar solos have to say or communicate something. I create musical worlds that I hope that you dear listener, will also want to explore and live in for a few moments...or longer if you feel that way inclined.

Song Info

Genre

Country • Cover Songs

Charts

#62 in subgenre Peak #1

Charts

Peak #23

Author

Carole King / Gerry Goffin

Rights

original song writer

Uploaded

July 06, 2021

Track Files

MP3

MP3 8.8 MB • 320 kbps • 3:51

Lossless

WAV 38.9 MB

Story behind the song

I've gone for a wild trippy, psychedelic vibe that recreates the mood of the original Easy Rider movie. So, put on your 'shades' man and head out into the sunset.

Lyrics

Wasn't Born to Follow (Carole King / Gerry Goffin)

No I'd rather go and journey
Where the diamond crescent's glowing
And run across the valley
Beneath the sacred mountain
And wander through the forest
Where the trees have leaves of prisms
And break the light in colors
That no one know the names of

And when it's time I'll go and lay
Beside the legendary fountain
'Till I see her form reflected
In its clear and jewelled waters
And if you think I'm ready
You may lead me to the chasm
Where the rivers of our visions
Flow into one another...

guitar solo #1

I will want to dive beneath 
the white cascading waters
She may beg, she may plead, 
she may argue with her logic
And then she'll now the things I've learnt
That really have no value 
in the end she will surely know
I wasn't born to follow...

guitar solo #2

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soundsbyramolly

Jul 13, 2021

Nice work Major , lots of stars!!!

rodrica

Jul 13, 2021

First class job!! Love the way you've added your own touch of magic to this and taken it to a new level. Excellent performance & playing. Haven't heard this song for years - really great to find a new version of it after all this time.

steveweyman

Jul 08, 2021

I listened to the Byrds original and yours is much punchier ! The vocals capture the Byrds essence and I prefer your guitar work you really got that spacey Psychedelic vibe going ! Really enjoyed it !