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The Byrds

Just A Season

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“Chestnut Mare” is a song by the American rock band The Byrds, written by Roger McGuinn and Jacques Levy during 1969 for a planned country rock musical named Gene Tryp. The musical was never staged and the song was instead released in September 1970 as part of The Byrds’ (Untitled) album. It was later issued as a single on October 23, 1970, with “Just a Season”, another McGuinn and Levy song left over from the Gene Tryp project, on the B-side. The song did much better, however, when it was released as a single in the United Kingdom on January 1, 1971, reaching #19 on the UK Singles Chart, during a chart stay of eight weeks. “Chestnut Mare” was the first UK Top 20 hit that The Byrds had achieved since their cover of Bob Dylan’s “All I Really Want to Do” had peaked... Read on...

Song lines: ♪ If all my days was hills to climb and circles without reason ... If all I was was passing time my life was just a season

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