"Қызыл қыз: Нил Янг және Crazy Horse хиті"

Single by Neil Young and Crazy Horse

"Cinnamon Girl" is a song by Neil Young. It debuted on the 1969 album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, which was also Young's first album with backing band Crazy Horse.

Like two other songs from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, "Cowgirl in the Sand" and "Down by the River", Young wrote "Cinnamon Girl" while he was suffering from the flu with a high fever at his home in Topanga, California. This song displays the very prominent role played by Danny Whitten in the sound of Young's early recordings. The vocals are a duet, with Whitten singing the high harmony against Young's low harmony. (The 45 rpm single mix of the song, in addition to being in mono and cutting off the guitar outro, features Whitten's vocal more prominently than the album version.) Young performed the song on his then recently acquired Gibson Les Paul, "Old Black". The NME named "Cinnamon Girl" an example of "proto grunge". The music features a prominent descending bass guitar line. According to Young "people say that it is a solo with only one note but, in my head, each one of those notes is different. The more you get into it, the more you can hear the differences.”

The lyrics have the singer daydreaming for a girl to love, singing that he waits "between shows" for his lover. The "city girl playing finger cymbals" is a reference to folk singer Jean Ray. Music critic Johnny Rogan described the lyrics as "exotic and allusive without really saying anything at all." People have also speculated whether or not the song referred to Jim Morrison's common law wife, Pamela Courson. Jim and Pamela were part of the Topanga community around this time, and Pamela had red brown hair reminiscent of cinnamon. She was a well known groupie on Sunset Strip prior to meeting Jim. Young has denied, however, that the song refers to her. According to his autobiography, "Cinnamon Girl" was the first record played by the now legendary British DJ "Whispering Bob" Harris on his BBC Radio 1 debut in August 1970.

"Cinnamon Girl" was released as a single in 1970, where it reached No. 55 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song peaked at number 34 in Australia.

British music publication NME ranked "Cinnamon Girl"'s opening chord progression at No. 47 on its "50 Greatest Guitar Riffs Of All Time". In an interview with Q, singer Beck named the "Cinnamon Girl" riff as his all time favorite, next to Black Sabbath's "Supernaut".