Dead Songs in Depth

    
192/366 From 'Resurrection Rag', music by Merl Saunders, written for
the soundtrack of Armageddon Rag:

The voice of the song so strangely like you
When the moon was white and the sky was still blue

www.whitegum.com/songfile/RESURREC.HTM
  

    
193/366 From 'My Lips Are Sealed', a Lauderdale song on Patchwork
River:

If the words are spoken, then they won't come true
Wouldn't be a secret and I might lose you

www.whitegum.com/songfile/MYLIPSAR.HTM
  

    
194/366 From 'The Last Song', a Mickey Hart/Mystery Box song:

Sing the parts that can be sung and trust the heart for guidance
Ring the bells that can be rung and leave the rest to silence

www.whitegum.com/songfile/LASTSONG.HTM
  

    
195/366 From 'Maybe She’s A Bluebird', another from Robert Hunter's
first album Tales Of The Great Rum Runners:

When I was a beggar, when I was a thief
When I was caught up, was you that brought relief

www.whitegum.com/songfile/MAYBESHE.HTM
  

    
196/366 From 'Evangeline', a Seven Walkers song: 

Haunted witches' moon low on the horizon
Couldn't be a better time to brew a lover's potion

www.whitegum.com/songfile/EVANGEL2.HTM
  

    
Nice!
  

    
197/366 From 'Scrap Of Moonlight', a song Robert Hunter introduced
on his 1998 tour:

Here's a kiss to build a dream on, a place to lay your head
Star filled skies to guide you till the end

www.whitegum.com/songfile/SCRAPOFM.HTM
  

    
198/366 From 'Wayward Son', a song on Mickey Hart's album RAMU:

My song is the future, my tune is the past
My rhythm is the present, my first is my last

www.whitegum.com/songfile/WAYWARDS.HTM
  

    
199/366. From 'The Center', a Mickey Hart song with the Rhythm
Devils:

Just want to tell you, for what it's worth
Centre of the universe is not on this earth

www.whitegum.com/songfile/CENTRE.HTM
  

    
199/366 From 'Parcel Of Doom', a lyric in Box Of Rain but never
played live:

You fought for the right to be wretched as sin
To carve the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin

www.whitegum.com/songfile/PARCELDO.HTM
  

    
201/366 From 'Pieces Of Eight, in Box Of Rain, and played by Robert
Hunter in the early 1980s:

The will to be free melts prison bars away
with a little ingenuity and a willingness to pay

www.whitegum.com/songfile/PIECESOF.HTM
  

    
202/366  'The Pits Of Thunder', a lyric for Zero with music by Greg
Anton and Steve Kimock:

Here in the breech-born pits of thunder, land of the morning star
Here in the circle once unbroken you find out who you are

www.whitegum.com/songfile/PITSOFTH.HTM
  

    
Sounds a little ominous.
  

    
A little?

This bleak lyric so reminiscent of Blake, which Hunter seemed to
favor, reflects maybe more the hard cold stone of Edinburgh than
Jerry's sunny optimism. You can see clearly why Jerry claimed his
real contribution was as editor.  
  

    
203/366 From 'Drunkard’s Carol', on Hunter's album Promontory Rider
(and also used in Michael Mann's play "Red Roses, Green Gold"):

Two by two the tigers leap while each to his own council keeps
Sail from shore to dreamless sleep upon the tears the angel weeps

www.whitegum.com/songfile/DRUNKARD.HTM
  

    
204/366 From 'And I Know You', the sixth part of Robert Hunter's
Terrapin Suite:

Tonight I do not know my face from one who looks the same
by flicker of unburning flame inside this old familiar place

www.whitegum.com/songfile/ANDIKNOW.HTM
  

    
Oops, sorry, that was another repeated song. Instead:

204/366 From 'Iowa Soldier', a Trichrome's song:

Oh the heart grows weary of battles that never end
Hope this war is settled before there's nothing to defend

www.whitegum.com/songfile/IOWASOLD.HTM
  

    
205/366 From 'They Have A Saying', on Jim Lauderdale's album Black
Roses: 

I hope to remember as long as I might
Those words of the heart, and sleep well at night

www.whitegum.com/songfile/THEYHAVE.HTM
  

    
206/366 From 'It Must Have Been The Roses', one of only two songs
the Dead played with music by Robert Hunter:

If I tell another what your own lips told to me
Let me lay 'neath the roses and my eyes no longer see

www.whitegum.com/songfile/ITMUSTHA.HTM
  

    
207/366 From 'Blues Barrel', on the New Riders' album Where I Come
From:

I am sure gonna miss you, my bright and shining star
But if you don't come back now, babe, at least return the car

www.whitegum.com/songfile/BLUESBAR.HTM
  

    
208/366 From 'Come To Life', recorded on the Jefferson Starship
album Dragonfly:

What came too soon was so hard to keep
So full a harvest it was hard to reap

www.whitegum.com/songfile/COMETOLI.HTM
  

    
I always liked that song!
  

    
209/366 From 'The Business', a Hunter/Greg Anton song:

A kiss is not a promise, just the interest on a smile
The only thing important is a certain sense of style

www.whitegum.com/songfile/THEBUSIN.HTM
  

    
210/366 From 'Uncle John’s Band' - and if you haven't already, do
listen to the fascinating podcast
www.dead.net/deadcast/uncle-johns-band

It's the same story the crow told me, it's the only one he knows
Like the morning sun you come and like the wind you go

www.whitegum.com/songfile/UNCLEJB.HTM


https://www.dead.net/deadcast/uncle-johns-band
  

    
211/366 From 'Rock-n-Roll Blues', a Hunter/Lesh song:

You might be skating on mighty thin ice
But I didn't come here to give you advice

www.whitegum.com/songfile/ROCKNROL.HTM