JM: In 2000, Young pointed out that his contribution to the song was the lines “Sure enough they’ll be sellin’ stuff when the moon begins to rise / Pretty bad when you’re dealin’ with the man and the light shines in your eyes.” "Not that it matters now, but Danny was more subtle and I was more surface," Neil Young "Shakey" by Jimmy McDonough 2002

A song about heroin and the life of an addict Neil Young NYA Times-Contrarian Roadstories January 24, 2018

Then Elliot put it in a different sequence, because he was doing this Tonight’s the Night Broadway show…there was a script written and everything. We’d listen to the record of these songs, and that’s how we got it finished. He picked out the other songs – ‘Lookout Joe’, ‘Come on Baby, Let’s Go Downtown’, and ‘Borrowed Tune’, – and we put them in with the original nine Tonight’s the Night songs. Neil Young Creem/Bud Scoppa November 1975