Don't Let It Bring You Down
"Don't Let It Bring You Down" is the seventh track on Neil Young's 1970 studio album "After the Gold Rush". Background. The song was written by Young. It also appears on the 1971 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young live album "4 Way Street" as well as Young's 2007 album "Live at Massey Hall 1971", which was recorded in 1971, and Young's 2013 album "Live at the Cellar Door", which was recorded in 1970. John Reed wrote an arrangement of this for The Hampton String Quartet in 2006. The song is  played in double drop C tuning, which is similar to double drop D; however, the whole guitar is down tuned a whole step first, making the guitar strings C, G, C, F, A, and C. On "4 Way Street", Young says, "Here is a new song, it's guaranteed to bring you right down, it's called 'Don't Let It Bring You Down'. It sorta starts off real slow and then fizzles out altogether." The crowd then roars with laughter.