Rock legend Neil Young, known for searing protest music that dates to the late 1960s, has a new political ditty to add to his catalog, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Young, who holds dual American-Canadian citizenship, was once part of supergroups Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, interspersed with a prolific solo career.
He debuted a new song that targets Elon Musk and Donald Trump with lyrics that evoke his anti-George H.W. Bush song "Rockin' in the Free World" from 1991.
Young debuted the track, "Let's Roll Again," at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles over the weekend as a "rallying cry" to the American auto industry.
Lyrics included, “Come on Ford, come on GM/ Come on Chrysler, let’s roll again,” and included a plea to "run real clean."
Following a trademark harmonica break, "Young delivered his most biting lyric," according to the Chronicle: “If you’re a fascist, get a Tesla/ It’s electric, it doesn’t matter.”
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“If you’re a Democrat, taste your freedom/ Get whatever you want, taste your freedom.”
The article said that "Young, who for years lived on a ranch in Woodside (San Mateo County), has long been an advocate for sustainable automotive technology."
It continued, "In 2008, he launched Linc Volt Technology to promote retrofitting gas-powered vehicles with clean energy alternatives. That same year, he unveiled a 1959 Lincoln Continental converted to run on electric batteries and a biodiesel generator at San Francisco’s Dreamforce conference. The musician later adapted a Mercedes-Benz and a Hummer to run on used vegetable oil."
Young is scheduled to headline the Glastonbury Festival and launch a European and North American tour this summer.
On his website last month, Young posted, "When I go to play music in Europe, if I talk about Donald J. Trump, I may be one of those returning to America who is barred or put in jail to sleep on a cement floor with an aluminium [sic] blanket. That’s right folks, if you say anything bad about Trump or his administration, you may be barred from re-entering USA.”
