“Marrakesh Express” — Crosby, Stills and Nash

No Words, No Song
5 min readFeb 6, 2021
Photo by Lindsey LaMont on Unsplash

Let’s face it, the first time you heard “Marrakesh Express” you probably thought it was about drugs.

Not that I could blame anyone for coming to that conclusion. There was a lot of that about in the late 1960s. People were jetting off to exotic lands so they could “discover themselves”…which, as near as I can figure out, meant experimenting with various narcotic substances of varying…

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No Words, No Song

Without words, it’s just a nice tune. Add words — now you’ve got a song. And songs can change your world. I write about some that changed mine.