Stephen Stills 2 - CHANGE PARTNERS (vinyl / lyrics below)

 

All of the ladies attending the ball

Are requested to gaze

In the faces found on the dance cards

Please then remember and don't get too close

To one special one

He will take your defenses and run

So we change partners

Time to change partners

You must change partners

Again

This is how most of our ladies grew up

At the country club dances

They learned how to handle the boys

Gently but firmly, they learned to say no

There were four more young men

Who were waiting in the color and the noise

So we change partners

Time to change partners

You must change partners

Again

All of the ladies attending the ball

Are requested to gaze

In the faces found on the dance cards

Please then remember and follow your list

Cause the dear things get hurt

And the broken hearts make you feel hard

Stephen Stills 2 is the second solo album by Stephen Stills, released on Atlantic Records in 1971. It peaked at number eight on the Billboard 200 and was certified as a gold record by the RIAA. Two singles were released from the album, both just missing the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart: "Change Partners" peaked at number 43.

Stills said "it was about growing up in the south, attending the debutante balls, but Graham likes to refer to it as the Crosby, Stills & Nash theme song, which I suppose it is". Graham Nash has said he feels it's about the constantly changing relationships in CSNY. Jerry Garcia performs the pedal steel guitar played throughout the song.

Personnel

Stephen Stills – vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass guitar

Nils Lofgren – guitars, keyboards, backing vocals

Eric Clapton – electric guitar on "Fishes and Scorpions"

Paul Harris, Billy Preston, Dr. John – keyboards

Calvin "Fuzzy" Samuels – bass

Conrad Isidore, Dallas Taylor – drums

Gasper Lawal, Rocky Dijon – congas

David Crosby, Henry Diltz, Fred Neil as "Fearless Freddy" – backing vocals

Jerry Garcia – pedal steel guitar on "Change Partners"

The Memphis Horns

Roger Hopps, Wayne Jackson – trumpets

Jack Helm – trombone

Sidney George, Ed Logan, Andrew Love – tenor saxophone

James Mitchell, Floyd Newman – baritone saxophone

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