Neil Young- Cortez the Killer

Neil Young was a greater musician. He sang about many different things, and was passionate about different subjects. In one of his songs he shows that. In his song entitle, “Cortez the killer,” Neil Young sings about Cortez in search of land, willing to kill anything or anyone that he sees to find land. The first two verses of the song go like this, He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for the new world
In that palace in the sun.

On the shore lay Montezuma
With his coca leaves and pearls
In his halls he often wondered
With the secrets of the worlds.

And the final verse of the song is:

He came dancing across the water
Cortez, Cortez
What a killer.

This song is I believe is well related to the very first chapter that we read. The chapter about Christopher Columbus, coming to America in search of land and gold and spices, Columbus is said to be a man who would stop at nothing to get what he needed and what he wanted. He wanted to find gold for the king of his country. And his king told him that he did what ever it took to find gold, even if that meant killing thousands of Indians to take their land. The line where it says he came dancing across the water with his galleons and guns, I think that is much related to Columbus because he came over with force to complete his task.
This is a song that when I first read it I could not believe how much it was like the Columbus article. It was almost like the author wrote the chapter about this song. It was strange. But, this is a good song, and a song about how people will go to great lengths to get what they need and do what they need to do, no matter the cost.