Rockin' in the Free World

"Rockin' in the Free World"
Single by Neil Young
from the album Freedom
B-side"Rockin' in the Free World (acoustic live)"
ReleasedNovember 14, 1989
RecordedMarch 10, 1989
StudioThe Barn, Redwood Digital, Woodside, California
Genre
Length3:38 (acoustic version)
4:40 (electric version)
LabelReprise
Songwriter(s)Neil Young
Producer(s)
Neil Young singles chronology
"Ten Men Workin'"
(1988)
"Rockin' in the Free World"
(1989)
"No More"
(1989)
Audio
"Rockin' in the Free World" on YouTube

"Rockin' in the Free World" is a song by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Neil Young, released on Young's seventeenth studio album Freedom (1989). Two versions of the song bookend the album, similarly to "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" from Young's Rust Never Sleeps album, one of which is performed with a predominantly acoustic arrangement, and the other predominantly electric. Rolling Stone magazine ranked "Rockin' In the Free World" number 214 on its "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".