I like the Dead

Oh, I actually have no idea. It wasn't labeled when i got it. Sorry.

 

heres somethin i made the other night outta dire wolf, cassidy, and the victim or the crime...

When I awoke, the dire wolf, six hundred pounds of sin
Was grinning at my window, all I said was "Come on in"


I have seen where the wolf has slept by the silver stream
I can tell by the mark he left, you were in his dream
The wolf came in, I got my cards, we sat down for a game
I cut my deck to the queen of hearts but the cards were all the same
Don't murder me, I beg of you don't murder me


Flight of the seabirds
Scattered like lost words
Wheel to the storm and fly


Ah child of countless trees
Ah child of boundless seas
What you are, what you're meant to be
Speaks his name, though you were born to me
Born to me, Cassidy


Patience runs out on the junkie
The dark side hires another soul
Did he steal his fate or earn it
Was he force-fed, did he learn it
Whatever happened to his precious self control



Like him I'm tired of trying to heal
This tom-cat heart with which I'm blessed
Is destruction loving's twin
Must I choose to lose or win
Maybe when my turn comes I will have guessed

 

Black throated wind, keeps on pourin' in,
With it's words of a life where nothing is new,
Ah, mother american night, I pass from the light,
Ah, I'm drownin' in you.

 

The Dreadful Grapefruits?

 

that's phil's song for his father....and its amazing to hear him sing it....

....i love that song....

 

wasnt that a Weird Al early band?

 

1990-03-18 shakedown....tasty... not quite like them early 80's shakedowns but I wish I had been there with ya.

http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=11778

 

Jack Straw

We can share the women, we can share the wine.
We can share what we got of yours 'cause we done shared all of mine.
Keep on rollin', just a mile to go;
Keep on rollin' my old buddy, you're movin' much too slow.

I just jumped the watchman, right outside the fence.
Took his rings, four bucks in change, ain't that Heaven sent?
Hurts my ears to listen, Shannon, burns my eyes to see;
Cut down a man in cold blood, Shannon, might as well been me.

We used to play for silver, now we play for life;
And one's for sport and one's for blood at the point of a knife.
And now the die is shaken, now the die must fall.
There ain't a winner in the game, he don't go home with all.
Not with all.

Leavin' Texas, fourth day of July,
Sun so hot, the clouds so low, the eagles filled the sky.
Catch the Detroit Lightnin' out of Sante Fe,
The Great Northern out of Cheyenne, from sea to shining sea.

Gotta go to Tulsa, first train we can ride.
Gotta settle one old score, one small point of pride.
There ain't a place a man can hide, Shannon will keep him from the sun
Ain't a bed can give us rest now, you keep us on the run.

Jack Straw from Wichita cut his buddy down,
And dug for him a shallow grave and laid his body down.
Half a mile from Tucson, by the morning light,
One man gone and another to go, my old buddy you're moving much too slow.

We can share the women, we can share the wine.

 

Stagger Lee

1948, Xmas eve, with a full moon over town
Stagger Lee shot Billy DeLions
And he blew that poor boy down.
Do you know what he shot him for?
What do you make of that?
Cause Billy DeLions threw the lucky dice
Won Stagger Lee's Stetson hat.

Bayo, Bayo, tell me how can this be?
You arrest the girls for turning tricks
But you're scared of Stagger Lee.
Stagger Lee is a madman and he shot my Billy D.
Bayo go get him or give the job to me.

Delia DeLions, dear sweet Delia-D
How the hell can I arrest him? He's twice as big as me.
Well don't ask me to go downtown, I won't come back alive [no more].
Not only is that mother big but he packs a .45 [four].

Bayo, Delia said, just give me a gun
he shot my Billy dead now I'm gonna see him hung.
She went into the DeLion's club through Billy DeLions blood
Stepped up to Stagger Lee at the bar,
Said, "Buy me a gin fizz, love."

As Stagger Lee lit a cigarette she shot him in the balls
Blew the smoke off her revolver, had him dragged to city hall
Bayo, Bayo, see you hang him high
He shot my Billy dead and now he's got to die.

Delia went a walking down on Singapore Street
A three-piece band on the corner played "Near My God to Thee"
But Delia whistled a different tune, what tune could it be?

The song that woman sung was "Look Out Stagger Lee".
The song that Delia sung was "Look Out Stagger Lee".

 

"He's Gone"
Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; used by permission

Rat in a drain ditch
Caught on a limb
You know better but
I know him
Like I told you
What I said
Steal your face
right off you head

Now he's Gone
Lord he's gone
Like a steam locomotive
rolling down the track
He's gone
He's gone
and nothing's gonna bring him back
He's gone

Nine mile skid
on a ten mile ride
Hot as a pistol
but cool inside
Cat on a tin roof
Dogs in a pile
Nothing left to do but
smile, smile, smile

Now he's gone
Lord he's gone
Like a steam locomotive
rolling down the track
He's gone
He's gone
and nothing's gonna bring him back
He's gone

Going where the wind don't blow so strange
Maybe on some high cold mountain range
Lost one round but the price wasn't anything
Knife in a back and more of the same
Same old rat in a drain ditch
Out on a limb
You know better but I know him

Now he's gone
Lord he's gone
Like a steam locomotive
rolling down the track
He's gone
He's gone
and nothin's gonna bring him back
He's gone.... ​

 

Shining Star

You are my shining star. Don't you go away.
Wanna be right here where you are until my dying day.
So many have tried, tried to find a love like yours and mine
Girl, don't your realize how you hypnotize?
Make me, love you more each time.
Honey I'll never leave you lonely;
give my love to you only, to you only, to you only.
Honey, you are my shining star. Don't you go away.
Wanna be right here where you are unitl my dying day.
Feels so good when we're lying here next to each other, lost in love.
Baby, when we touch, love you so much.
You're all I ever dreamed of.
Honey I'll never leave you lonely;
give my love to you only, to you only, to you only.
Honey, you are my shining star. Don't you go away.
Wanna be right here where you are until my dying day.

 

Here's one of my favorite Dead tunes..

Julie catch a rabbit by his hair
Come back step, like to walk on air
Get back home where you belong
And don't you run off no more

Don't hang your head, let the two-time roll
Grass shack nailed to a pine wood floor
Ask the time baby I don't know
Come back later, gonna let it show

Chorus
And I say row, Jimmy, row
Gonna get there, I don't know
Seems a common way to go
Get down and row, row, row, row, row

Here's a half a dollar if you dare
Double twist when you hit the air
Look at Julie down below
The levee doing the dopaso

[chorus]

Broken heart don't feel so bad
You ain't got half of what you thought you had
Rock your baby to and fro
Not too fast and not too slow

[chorus]

That's the way it's been in town
Ever since they tore the juke box down
Two bit piece don't buy no more
Not so much as it done before

[chorus]

 

I LOVE Row Jimmy!



~namaste~

 

Standing on the moon, I got no cobweb on my shoe
Standing on the moon, I'm feeling so alone and blue
I see the Gulf of Mexico as tiny as a tear
The coast of California must be somewhere over here
Over here

Standing on the moon, I see the battle rage below
Standing on the moon, I see the soldiers come and go
There's a metal flag beside me someone planted long ago
Old glory standing stiffly, crimson, white and indigo
Old glory standing stiffly, crimson, white and indigo
Indigo

I see all of South East Asia; I can see El Salvador
I hear the cries of children and the other songs of war
It's like a mighty melody that rings down from the sky
Standing here upon the moon I watch it all roll by
All roll by
All roll by
All roll by

Standing on the moon, I see a shadow on the sun
Standing on the moon, the stars go fading one by one
I hear a cry of victory, another of defeat
A scrap of age-old lullaby down some forgotten street

Standing on the moon, where talk is cheap and vision true
Standing on the moon, but I would rather be with you
Somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July
Just looking up to heaven at this crescent in the sky
In the sky

Standing on the moon with nothing left to do
A lovely view of heaven but I'd rather be with you
A lovely view of heaven but I'd rather be with you
Be with you
I'd rather be with you
[etc]


Everytime I hear SOTM, I get a tear in my eye. Such a beautiful song...............


~namaste~

 

Maybe you collect or maybe you pay (note 4)
Still got to work that eight hour day
Whether you like that job or not
You'd better keep it on ice while you're lining up your long shot
Which is to say, hey hey

Chorus
Keep your day job
Whatever they say
Keep your day job
Don't give it away
Keep your day job
Till your night job pays

Steady boys study that eight day hour
Never underrate that paycheck power
By now you know that the face on your dollar
Got a thumb on its nose and a hand on your collar
Which is to say, hey hey

[chorus]

Daddy may drive a V-8 'vet (note 5)
Mama may bathe in champagne yet
God bless the child that's got his own stash
Nine to five and a place to crash
Which is to say, hey hey

[chorus]
[chorus]
[chorus]



I have been hummin' this song at work all week. How fitting..............


~namaste~

 

Hey Marc, can you download complete songs onto your computer from there? I have heard before that you have to pay for them. Hopefully I have heard wrong.................



~namaste~

 

you heard wrong. FREEEEEEEEE and not just the dead

 

Really? That is great to know. I am in the process of getting all GD from the 80's and Phish early 90's. Hopefully gdlive.com will help out. Hey Rummy, where else are some good sites for downloading as well?


~namaste~

 

best site I ever been to was linked to me by sprout.
http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?cat=Grateful Dead
has SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo much dead. I am workin on a 1991 collection myself and it has all the ones I am missing . I just have not taken the trouble to dl yet.

 

my car's name is stella blue....

.....and i consider myself forever deadicated.....here's my tattoo....