Dead Songs in Depth

    
212/366 From 'She Gives Me Love', a song Robert Hunter played with
the band Comfort:

I know she's not as pretty as you
Her hair's not wavy or her eyes so blue

www.whitegum.com/songfile/SHEGIVES.HTM
  

    
213/366 From 'End Of The World Rag', recorded on Jim Lauderdale's
album I'm A Song:

Walking the dog, feeding the cat
No matter what happens, can't forget about that

www.whitegum.com/songfile/ENDWORLD.HTM
  

    
214/366 From 'Reno Roll', one of Robert Hunter's  performing
repertoire:

Your dog run wild and your cat gone stray
Your horse been feeding on another man's hay

www.whitegum.com/songfile/RENOROLL.HTM
  

    
215/366 From 'I Never See You', on Robert Hunter's album Rock
Columbia and occasionally played live in the 1980s:

So what if I traded some empty chatter for solitude?
You know I still come round when I'm in the mood

www.whitegum.com/songfile/I1NEVERS.HTM
  

    
216/366 From 'Laughing In The Dark', set to music by Danny Carnahan:

I saw you coming to me and I thought I heard you say
When today becomes tomorrow they call it yesterday

www.whitegum.com/songfile/LAUGHDAR.HTM
  

    
These are all so great, Alex! Thanks for this project. Danny
Carnahan! Wow. 
  

    
Thanks David. It's great fun picking the song and the lines.
  

    
217/366. From 'Horses', one of the lyrics Robert Hunter wrote for
Zero, with music by Greg Anton and Steve Kimock:

Shoulda been a pearl gray evening summer sky
Where eagles carry you away wherever eagles fly

www.whitegum.com/songfile/HORSES.HTM
  

    
218/366 From 'Run Mary', a Hunter lyric recorded by Dark Star
Orchestra:

Don't stop and fill your suitcase, you got no time to waste
No time to put on lipstick or powder on your face

www.whitegum.com/songfile/RUNMARY.HTM
  

    
219/366 From 'Must Be The Moon', a lyric in Robert Hunter's Box Of
Rain, but never set to music so far as I know:

You came from Picasso's pink and blue days
A harlequin figure with American ways

www.whitegum.com/songfile/MUSTBEMO.HTM
  

    
220/366 From 'Mirror of Thalassa', a Lesh/Hunter song played by Phil
Lesh & Friends in 2000 and 2001:

Rustling leaves, summer of sighs, ravens of memory, sing me
The morning we rode out of the mist to the edge of the shining blue
sea

www.whitegum.com/songfile/MIRRORTH.HTM
  

    
221/366 From 'Silvio', co-written with Bob Dylan. Seems appropriate
for a heatwave in southern Britain!

I can snap my fingers and require the rain
From a clear blue sky and turn it off again

www.whitegum.com/songfile/SILVIO.HTM
  

    
222/366 From 'Moving Right Along', a Nelson/Hunter song:

I have died for liberty, fought heavy, hard and long
I have died in poverty, moving right along

www.whitegum.com/songile/MOVINGRI.HTM
  

    
Sorry: http://www.whitegum.com/songfile/MOVINGRI.HTM
  

    
Looking forward that next album coming out.  
  

    
223/366 From 'Rag Top Down', music by Bill Payne, on Little Feat's
album Rooster Rag:

San Fancisco is the type of town
To drive my Chevvy with the rag-top down

www.whitegum.com/songfile/RAGTOPDO.HTM
  

    
224/366 From 'Jacob Baum (Water Witch)'. I had thought that Hunter
never played this live, but I've recently discovered that he did
play it at least once in 1984:

Till Jacob shook his willow wand in anger at the sky
And rain fell down for seven days till not one well was dry

www.whitegum.com/songfile/JACOBBAU.HTM
  

    
226/366 From 'Heaven Only Knows', a Greg Anton song from an
unreleased Gregg's Eggs album:

Precious moments when everything fits
When the jury's hung and the judge acquits

www.whitegum.com/songfile/HEAVENON.HTM
  

    
Nice one.
  

    
227/366. From 'Come And Get It', recorded on Robert Hunter's album
Liberty:

What I want I haven't got and what I got I need
I can take a kick or two but I don't want to bleed

www.whitegum.com/songfile/COMEANDG.HTM
  

    
228/366 From 'Immigrant', a song written for the stage musical
"Cumberland Blues":

If I can find love and a few good friends
I'll cast my lot with the working men

www.whitegum.com/songfile/IMMIGRA2.HTM
  

    
229/366 From  'Janis Jones', on Jim Lauderdale's album Reason And
Rhyme:

Wish I had a big bay steed, eighteen hands or more
Janis Jones would make some speed when they send me off to war

www.whitegum.com/songfile/JANISJON.HTM
  

    
I just love this so much. Thanks Alex!
  

    
You're welcome. It's great fun for me choosing the lyrics.
  

    
230/366 From 'Spreading The News', on Mickey Hart's album RAMU:

It might not be so clear but in its smallness lies its power
A single petal on a rose, a moment in the hour

www.whitegum.com/songfile/SPREADIN.HTM