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lkk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Larry Kolodney) (05/12/85)

Chinatown Shuffle by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter(?) 8/74 

Take it, you can have it,
what I got baby, I can't hold
and if you find the secret
tell me how to build the mold.

And I can't handle your problems
so don't try to handle mine,
get yourself a shotgun, a pocketful of shells
and we can while away the time.

Look up the wall, do it right,
make a mistake, you're going to pay for it twice,
but if you need it, got to have it
get yourself a shotgun and bring it back home.

Look up the wall, you know you got to call
before you start falling, get ready to fall,
and if you fall in my direction
don't expect no help at all. . .don't.

Get it right, do it nice
and if you make a mistake, you're going to pay for it twice,
but if you need it, got to have it
get yourself a shotgun and bring it back home.

Look up the wall, you know you got to call
but if you start falling, be ready to fall,
and if you fall in my direction
don't expect no help at all,
don't expect no help at all,
don't expect no help at all,
and if you fall in my direction
don't expect no help at all.
Cold Rain and Snow  by Skjellifetti 


Well, I'll marry me a wife,
she's been trouble all my life--
walk me out in the cold rain and snow.

Rain and snow!
Walk me out in the cold rain and snow.

Well she's coming down the stairs,
holding back her yellow hair,
and I ain't gonna be treated this a way--

this a way,
and I ain't gonna be treated this a way.

She went up to her room,
and she sang a fateful tune,
and I'm going where those chilly winds don't blow.

Winds don't blow,
and I'm going where those chilly winds don't blow.

But I'm married to her life,
she's been trouble all my life,
walk me out in the cold rain and snow.

Rain and snow,
walk me out in the cold rain and snow,
walk me out in the cold rain and snow,
walk me out in the cold rain and snow,
walk me out in the cold rain and snow,
walk me out in the cold rain and snow,
walk me out in the cold rain and snow.
Comes A Time  by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter


Comes a time
when the blindman takes your hand,
says don't you see?
Gotta make it somehow
on the dreams you still believe
don't give it up, you got an empty cup
only love can fill, only love can fill.

Been walking all morning
went walking all night
I can't see much difference
between the dark and light
And I feel the wind
And I taste the rain
Never in my mind
to cause so much pain.

Comes a time
when the blindman takes your hand,
says don't you see?
Gotta make it somehow
on the dreams you still believe
don't give it up, you got an empty cup
only love can fill, only love can fill.

>From day to day
just letting it ride
You get so far away
from how it feels inside
You can't let go
cause you're afraid to find
That the day may come 
when you can't feel at all.

Comes a time
when the blindman takes your hand,
says don't you see?
Gotta make it somehow
on the dreams you still believe
don't give it up, you got an empty cup
only love can fill, only love can fill,
only love can fill, only love can fill.
Cosmic Charlie  by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter 1/76


Cosmic Charlie how do you do
Truckin' in style along the avenue
Dum de dum de do da lee do
Go on home your mama's calling you.

Calico Cal, ya come tell me the news
Calamity's waiting for a way to get to her
Rosey red and electric blue
I bought you a paddle for your paper canoe.

Say you'll come back when you can
Whenever your airplane happens to land
Maybe I'll be back here too
It all depends on what's with you.

Woke up waiting for a windy day
Cat on I (?) since the first of February
Mama keeps saying that the wind might blow
But standing here I say I just don't know.

New ones come in as the old ones go
Everything's moving here but much too slowly
A little bit quicker and we might have time
To say how do you do before we left behind.

Calliope wail like a seaside zoo
The very last lately inquired about you
It's really very one or two
The first you wanted the last I knew.

I just wonder if you shouldn't feel
less concerned about the people unreal
The very first word is how do you do
The last go home your mama's calling you.

Calling you oo oo oo oo oo
Calling you oo oo oo 
Calling you oo oo oo 
Calling you oo oo oo 

Calling you oo oo oo 
            Go on home your mama's calling you
Calling you oo oo oo 
            Go on home your mama's calling you
Calling you oo oo oo 
            Go on home your mama's calling you
Go on home your mama's calling you
Crazy Fingers  by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter


Your rain falls like crazy fingers
peals of fragile thunder keeping time

Recall the days
that still are to come
some sing blue.

Hang your heart on laughing willow
stray down to the water, deep sea of love

beneath the sweet
calm face of the sea
swift undertow.

Life may be sweeter for this, I don't know
see how it feels in the end.
May Lady Lullaby sing plainly for you
soft, strong, sweet and true.

Cloud hands reaching from a rainbow
tapping at the window, touch your hair

So swift and bright
strange figures of light
float in air.

Who can stop what must arrive now
something new is waiting to be born

Dark as the night
you're still by my side
Shininside.

Gone are the days we stopped to decide
where we should go, we just ride.
Gone are the broken eyes we saw through in dreams
gone, both dream and lie.

Life may be sweeter for this, I don't know
Feels like it might be alright,
While Lady Lullaby sings plainly through you
Love still rings true.

Midnight on a carousel ride
reaching for the gold ring down inside,
Never could reach it, just slips away
When I try.
Cream Puff War   by Jerry Garcia


No, no!  She can't take your mind and leave
I know it's just another trick she's got up her sleeve
I can't believe that she really wants you to die
And your heart is more than enough to pay for your lies

Wait a minute, watch what you're doing with your time
All the others who would jump fast must stay behind, yeah
Wait a minute, watch what you're doing with your time
All the others who would jump fast must stay behind, yeah

Well, can't you see that you're killing each other slow
Well, you're both out on the streets and you got no place to go
Your constant friends are getting to be a bore
So go somewhere else and continue your cream puff war
Cumberland Blues  by Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, and Robert Hunter 8/74 

I can't stay much longer, Melinda,
The sun is getting high.
I can't help you with your troubles,
If you won't help with mine.

I gotta get down,
I gotta get down,
I gotta get down to the mi-ine.

You keep me up just one more night,
I can't sleep here no more.
Little Ben clock says quarter to eight;
You kept me up 'til four.

I gotta get down,
I gotta get down,
Or I can't work there no more.

A lotta poor man make a five dollar bill,
Keep him happy all the time.
Some other fella's makin' nothin' at all
And you can hear him cry,

"Can I go, buddy, can I go down
Take your shift at the mine ?"
Gotta git down to the Cumberland Mine.
Gotta git down to the Cumberland Mine.
That's where I mainly spend my time.
Make good money, five dollars a day.
Make anymore, I might move away.

A lot of poor man got the Cumberland Blues
He can't win for losin'
Lot of poor man got to walk that line
Just to pay their union dues.

I don't know now, I just don't know
If I'm goin' back again.

I don't know now, I just don't know
If I'm goin' back again.

I don't know now, I just don't know
If I'm goin' back again.
Dark Star by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter 4/75 


Dark star crashes, 
pouring its light into ashes.
Reason tatters,
the forces tear loose from the axis.
Searchlight casting
for faults in the clouds of delusion.
Shall we go,
you and I while we can
through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?

Mirror shatters
in formless reflections of matter.
Glass hand dissolving
to ice petal flowers revolving.
Lady in velvet
recedes in the nights of goodbye.
Shall we go,
you and I while we can
through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?
Deal  by Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, and Robert Hunter 10/75 


Since it costs a lot to win, 
and even more to lose,
you and me bound to spend some time, 
wonderin' what to choose,

Goes to show, you don't ever know,
watch each card you play and play it slow,
Waitin' til that deal come round,
don't you let that deal go down, no, no.

I been gamblin' hereabouts 
for ten good solid years,
if I told ya all that went down, 
it would burn off both of your ears.

Goes to show you don't ever know
watch each card you play and play it slow,
Waitin' til that deal come round,
don't you let that deal go down, no, no.

Since you poured the wine for me
and tightened up my shoes,
I hate to leave you sitting there, 
composing lonesome blues.

Goes to show you don't ever know
watch each card you play and play it slow,
Waitin' til that deal come round,
don't you let that deal go down.
Waitin' til that deal come round,
don't you let that deal go down.
Waitin' til that deal come round,
don't you let that deal go down,
don't you let that deal go down,
don't you let that deal go down.
Death Don't Have No Mercy  by the Reverend Gary Davis


Y'know Death don't have no mercy in this land,
Death don't have no mercy in this land, in this land.

Come to your house,
you know he don't take long,
look in the bed this morning,
children find your mother's gone.

I said Death don't have no mercy in this land.

Death will leave you standing and crying in this land,
Death will leave you standing and crying in this land,
In this land    Yeah!

Woh! Come to your house,
Y'know it don't stay long,
Y'look in the bed this morning,
children find that your brothers and sisters are gone.

I said Death don't have no mercy in this land.

Death will go in any family in this land.
Death will go in any family in this land.

Come to your house,
you know he don't take long,
look in the bed this morning,
children find that your family's gone.

I said Death don't have no mercy in this land.

Death will leave you standing and crying in this land,
In this land.

Woh! Come to your house,
Y'know it don't stay long,
Y'look in the bed this morning,
children find that your brothers and sisters are gone.

I said Death don't, Death don't
Have no mercy in this land.
Dire Wolf  by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter  8/74 


In the timbers of Fennario, 
the wolves are running round,
the winter was so hard and cold, 
froze ten feet 'neath the ground.

Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me,
please, don't murder me.

I sat down to my supper; 
'twas a bottle of red whiskey,
I said my pray'rs and went to bed, 
that's the last they saw of me.

Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me,
please, don't murder me.

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

Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me,
please, don't murder me.

The wolf came in.  I got my cards, 
we sat down for a game.
I cut my deck to the queen of spades 
but the cards were all the same.

Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me,
please, don't murder me.

In the backwoods of Fennario, 
the black and bloody mire,
the dire wolf collects his due 
while the boys sing round the fire.

Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me,
please, don't murder me.
No, no, no don't murder me, I beg of you, please don't murder me,
please don't murder me.
Doin' That Rag  by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia 4/76 

Da da da da da da da da da da da 

Sing in rainbow valley chasing light beams
Everything wanders from baby to Z
Baby baby pretty up on Tuesday
Old like a rum-drinking demon at tea.

Baby baby tell me what's the matter
What, what tell me what's your whine now?
Tell me why will you never come home
Tell me what's your reason, if you've got a good one.

Everywhere I go, the people all know
Everyone's doin' that rag.
Everywhere I go, the people all know
Everyone's doin' that rag.

Take my line, go fishin' for a Tuesday,
Maybe take my supper, eat it down by the sea.
Gave my baby twenty or forty good reasons,
Couldn't find any better ones in the morning at three.

The rain gonna come, but the rain gonna go y'know.
Steppin' off sharply from the rank and file.
Often cold and dark like a dungeon
Maybe get a little bit dark for the day.

All these tripsters, real cool chicksters (???)
Everyone's doin' that rag.
Hipsters, tripsters, real cool chicksters
Everyone's doin' that rag.

You needn't gild the lily, offer jewels to the sunset.
No one is watchin', a'standing in your shoes.
Wash your lonely feet in the river in the morning,
Everything promised is delivered to you.

Don't neglect to pick up what your share is,
All the winter birds are winging home now.
Hey love go, and look around you,
Nothing out there you haven't seen before now.

Wade in the water and you'll never get wet
If you keep on doin' that rag.
Wade in the water and you'll never get wet
If you keep on doin' that rag.

One-eyed jacks and the dueces are wild
And the aces are crawlin' up and down your sleeve.
Come back here baby Louise
And tell me the name of the game that you play.

Is it all fall down? Is it all go under?
Is it all fall down? Is it all go under?
Is it all fall down? Is it all go under?
Is it all fall down? Is it all go under?
Is it all fall down? Is it all go under?
Is it all fall down? Is it all go under?
Dupree's Diamond Blues  by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter  1/76 


When I was just a little young boy,
Papa said, "Son, you'll never get far,
I'll tell you the reason if you want to know,
cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go."

Well baby, baby wants a gold diamond ring
Wants it more than most any old thing
Well when I get those jelly roll blues
Why I'd go and get anything in this world for you.

And down to the jewelry store packing a gun,
says, "Wrap it up. I think I'll take this one."
"A thousand dollars please." the jewelry man said,
Dupree he said, "I'll pay this one off to you in lead."

Well you know son you just can't figure,
first thing you know you're gonna pull that trigger,
and it's no wonder your reason goes bad,
jelly roll will drive you stone mad.

Judge said, "Son, you know it's gonna cost you some time."
Dupree said, "Judge, you know that crossed my mind."
Judge said, "N'fact it's gonna cost you your life."
Dupree he said, "Judge, you know that seems to me to be about right."

Well baby, baby's gonna lose her sweet man,
Dupree come out with a losing hand,
Baby's gonna weep at home for awhile,
then go out and find another sweet man's gonna treat her with style.

Judge said, "Son, I know your baby well,
but that's a Cecrel I can never tell."
Dupree said, "Judge, well it's well understood, 
and you got to admit that that sweet, sweet jelly's so good."

Well you know son you just can't figure,
first thing you know you're gonna pull that trigger,
and it's no wonder you reason most bad,
jelly roll will drive you so mad.

Same old story and I know it's been told,
some like jelly, jelly some like gold,
many a man's done a terrible thing,
just to get baby a shiny diamond ring.

Ah oh do do do do do dooo
Do do do da do do do do
Da do do do da da da de
Da do doo doo doo da da da doo

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