Dead Songs in Depth
Topic 168: Ripple
Lyric revisionism:
Learned via David Gans of a revision sung by Jeffrey Hellman of
Relatively Dead at a gig this past weekend:
"If your cup is full, may you help a friend.”
Pretty wonderful.
Made me smile!
Nice one!
I sometimes sing "heart unstrung", probably because I am thinking
about heartstrings.
I like that, too.
Much more soulful than "We can get High Times if you subscribe," which I'll
confess to having sung a number of times back in the day.
And Chris Hillman sang "heart of a strum."
At p 283 of his The History of Rock & Roll Volume 2, Ed Ward states
(re the mid-seventies):
"Drinking, too, enjoyed a revival. Beer, of course, with its
relatively low alcohol content, was big, but so were sweet "wine"
drinks, most famously Boone's Farm, Annie Green Springs and Ripple
(the latter immortalized in a Grateful Dead song) ..."
Oh dear. The only linkage I am aware of is the unfortunate
illustration in the Grateful Dead Songbook.
Oops.
Amusingly, I thought the song was about cheap wine, too, until I heard it.
THat was well before the songbook came out, btw.
Members: Enter the conference to participate. All posts made in this conference are world-readable.
