<P> The album 's advance single , `` Long May You Run '' , peaked at # 71 on the UK singles chart . The song was an elegy for Neil Young 's first car ( which he nicknamed `` Mort '' ) , a 1948 Buick Roadmaster hearse that died in 1965 when its transmission blew in Blind River , Ontario . Mort was a different vehicle from the 1953 Pontiac hearse , nicknamed Mort 2 , that Richie Furay , traveling with Stills , saw Young driving in a Hollywood traffic jam in 1966 that led to the formation of Buffalo Springfield . `` Long May You Run '' was performed by Young on the final broadcast of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien on January 22 , 2010 , and during the closing ceremonies for the Vancouver Olympics on February 28 , 2010 . </P>
<P> The album 's advance single , `` Long May You Run '' , peaked at # 71 on the UK singles chart . The song was an elegy for Neil Young 's first car ( which he nicknamed `` Mort '' ) , a 1948 Buick Roadmaster hearse that died in 1965 when its transmission blew in Blind River , Ontario . Mort was a different vehicle from the 1953 Pontiac hearse , nicknamed Mort 2 , that Richie Furay , traveling with Stills , saw Young driving in a Hollywood traffic jam in 1966 that led to the formation of Buffalo Springfield . `` Long May You Run '' was performed by Young on the final broadcast of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien on January 22 , 2010 , and during the closing ceremonies for the Vancouver Olympics on February 28 , 2010 . </P>
who is the song long may you run about
who is the song long may you run about
Neil Young 's first car ( which he nicknamed `` Mort '' ) , a 1948 Buick Roadmaster hearse that died in 1965 when its transmission blew in Blind River , Ontario
Neil Young 's first car ( which he nicknamed `` Mort '' ) , a 1948 Buick Roadmaster hearse that died in 1965 when its transmission blew in Blind River , Ontario