Dead Songs in Depth

    
145/366. From 'Golden Stairs', an RH lyric set to music by Vince
Welnick:

Bet five hundred dollars, any course you steer
Someone got to argue can't get there from here

www.whitegum.com/songfile/GOLDENST.HTM
  

    
Wow!...What a treat and feat this is!...a treasure trove of true
gems, unearthed and excavated by you, Alex...just read all of them,
slowly straight through...Keep 'em coming
Thanking you
  

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135/366 (post #136) and 88/366 (post #89) share the same refrain or
verse about holding on to what you love until it is ripped away...

curious about that repeat and my scrambled, stroke brain just works
that way (noticing and retaining the repetition in those two
fragments) while I read slowly straight through the posts
  

    
I must have made a mistake. That verse isn't in Amagamalin Street.
Not quite sure what happened.

I meant to post:

Where the touch of saint in the sinner can shine
Don't crowd that place 'cause it could be mine
  

    
146/366. From ' Rockin’ With Nona', an NRPS song on their 2008 album
Where I Come From:

If anybody happened to see, what do you think they'd see?
Nothing but clouds, one mountain and the deep blue sea

www.whitegum.com/songfile/ROCKNONA.HTM
  

    
147/366. From 'When Jones Came Home' from Jim Lauderdale's album
Black Roses:

Political manoeuvres never made much sense
Just a series of avoidable accidents

#RobertHunter

http://whitegum.com/songfile/WHENJONE.HTM
  

    
I've just realised that 145/366 and 35/366 are both from Golden
Stairs (albeit with different quotes from the lyrics. But to make
sure that I have a different Robert Hunter lyric each day, here's a
replacement:

145/366. From 'Eulalie', a song Hunter wrote for his 2004 tour:

Elementary magic of the solitary moonbeam
Might have been a dream but that isn't how it seemed


www.whitegum.com/songfile/EULALIE.HTM
  

    
Not sure how I've missed this on FB but glad it's here now!
Thanks, Alex. There are some gems I am not familiar with already.
  

    
148/366. From 'Woman In White', set to music by Jerry Lawson on his
2015 album Just A Mortal Man:

The logic was persuasive like it always is in dream
Where everything is anything except what it may seem

www.whitegum.com/songfile/WOMANWHI.HTM
  

    
149/366. From 'Bluegrass Pines', with music by Bill Payne:

Life seemed short when you left forever
Wasn't so smart, but pretty damn clever

www.whitegum.com/songfile/BLUEGRPI.HTM
  

    
that's one I never heard of before. Off to check it out.
  

    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMYg41gJ-pY

Wow. That guy--Bill Payne!!!
  

    
And he wrote a Garcia-worthy bridge for the Hunter lyric (echoes of
Terrapin):

Deep in the bluegrass forest at midnight
Moon turned down the softest candlelight
Mandolins stutter, the banjos frail
While the last electric stars go pale

The patter of twilight guitars creep
From under the bracken from where they sleep
Tones are strings a-tuning
Fall, climb, go forth, today
  

    
150/366. From 'Stephanie'. I'm in the middle of reading Greg Anton's
novel 'Face The Music'. for which Hunter wrote this lyric:

My heart's busted open, my sky's cerulean blue
Don't need rain for a rainbow as long as I've got you

www.whitegum.com/songfile/STEPHANI.HTM
  

    
151/366. From 'Recognition', the final part of Hunter's Terrapin
Station Suite. Never played by the Dead but played solo at least
once by Hunter:

Hand in hand we leave the fire, the storytelling done
Pinch the candle and retire, tonight our dreams are one

www.whitegum.com/songfile/RECOGNIT.HTM
  

    
nice one!
  

    
152/366. From 'France', a Hunter lyric only part of which was
recorded on the album Shakedown Street (but never played live by the
Dead):

If you help me through the night, I will try to treat you right
Love me, I will love you too, nothing else I'd rather do

www.whitegum.com/songfile/FRANCE.HTM
  

    
153/366. From'Good Together', on Jim Lauderdale's album Patchwork
River:

Bought a ticket to a better place, became the Chief of Police
You don't have to obey the law but don't disturb the peace

www.whitegum.com/songfile/GOODTOGE.HTM
  

    
I love PATCHWORK RIVER. Excellent album!
  

    
154/366. From 'Falling Stars' on Mickey Hart's album Superorganism:

An angel might have caught it and put it in her pocket
Or wore it as a locket, that falling star of mine
 
www.whitegum.com/songfile/FALLINGS.HTM
  

    
155/366. From 'Djinn Djinn', a Hunter lyric on Mickey Hart's
Mysterium Tremendum album:

From your sweet tongue, heart of gold, the spirits find us here
With beauty beyond words I know that paradise is near

www.whitegum.com/songfile/DJINNDJI.HTM
  

    
156/366. From 'Tough Changes' a Hunter lyric which he lists in Box
of Rain having music by Bob Weir. It may or may not have been
rehearsed by the Dead:

Keep it clean or keep it hid, others fall for what you did
A hundred years on down the line will any part of our lovelight
shine?

www.whitegum.com/songfile/TOUGHCHA.HTM
  

    
157/366. From 'Track 6', recorded by the Trichromes:

Succulent and sweet, berries on a vine
Sherries from the sky, sea of apple wine

www.whitegum.com/songfile/TRACKSIX.HTM