Dead Songs in Depth

    
243/366 From 'Mesa Linda', part of Robert Hunter's Alligator Moon
suite:

Melina lets it happen, you know she must've wrote the play
Had better luck in the roundabout than in the right of way

www.whitegum.com/songfile/MESALIND.HTM
  

    
244/366 From  'Man Overboard', a Hunter/Nelson song recently
released as a single:

You look like us when shove comes to push
Upside down dragged through a bush

www.whitegum.com/songfile/MANOVERB.HTM
  

    
245/366 From 'Lazy Tiger Rag', a lyric in Robert Hunter's Box Of
Rain:

Don't know how to do it, there could be a reason why
I never taught you how but now I'm gonna try

www.whitegum.com/songfile/LAZYTIGE.HTM
  

    
2/246 From 'Reason And Rhyme', on Jim Lauderdale's album of the same
name:

Full fathom five father lies, sister weeps and mother cries
Painted clown spins round and round, lost somewhere in time

www.whitegum.com/songfile/REASONAN.HTM
  

    
247/366 From 'Johnny Blondino', in Box Of Rain but never performed
live so far as I know:

I have lived a checkered life, good deeds were far and few
Always counted on my wits, and luck to pull me through

www.whitegum.com/songfile/JOHNBLON.HTM
  

    
248/366 From 'American Spring', a Hunter/Anton song:

Star-spangled church of the grand old flag, not some blood-soaked
mop-up rag
Cops were good, trucks were bad, rights were something everyone had

www.whitegum.com/songfile/AMERICSP.HTM
  

    

John Kadlecik sang that on a record w/ Melvin, Greg, and I can't remember who
else. The band was called The Mix. Circa 2005
  

    
Also John Kadlecik
  

    
249/366 From 'Fly Away' a lyric for Bill Kreutzmann's band BK3:

Blackbird singer, calling through my rough and ready dream
Wake up and it's seven thirty, no coffee for the cream

www.whitegum.com/songfile/FLYAWAY2.HTM
  

    
259/366 From 'Ticket To Nowhere', a Hart/Hunter song on Mysterium
Tremendum:

I look at my watch and it says twelve o'clock
It's right twice a day ever since it's been stopped

www.whitegum.com/songfile/TICKETTO.HTM
  

    
Everything OK, Alex?
  

    
Yes, thanks. Had three-day meeting in London and am just catching up.
  

    
251/366 From 'Blue Note', part of the Alligator Moon Suite:

Stash your coins purse before you go down
It ain't exactly a rich part of town

www.whitegum.com/songfile/BLUENOTE.HTM
  

    
252/366 From 'Row Jimmy':

Broken heart don't feel so bad
You ain't got half of what you thought you had

www.whitegum.com/songfile/ROWJIMMY.HTM
  

    
253/366 From 'Heck', a song Robert Hunter introduced for the first
time in 2014:

Would he put me in a song
Damn thing ran one verse too long

www.whitegum.com/songfile/HECK.HTM
  

    
254/366 From 'Jack Dempsey’s Crown', a song on Jim Lauderdale's
album Reason and Rhyme:

Cut my baby teeth on a golden glove
The art of self defense is my first love

www.whitegum.com/songfile/JACKDEMP.HTM
  

    
Good, stay safe.
  

    
255/366 From 'Chance In A Million', a Hunter/Anton song written for
the band Zero:

Opportunity don't really knock
Just ticks loud like a dynamite clock

www.whitegum.com/songfile/CHANCEIN.HTM
  

    
266/366 From 'The Next Step', a Hart/Hunter song on the Mystery Box
album:

Depend on the wind of distant drums
We'll know the next step when it comes

www.whitegum.com/songfile/NEXTSTEP.HTM
  

    
267/366 From 'New Speedway Boogie' (I recommend the DeadCas episode)

I spent a little time on the mountain, spent a little time on the
hill
I saw things getting out of hand, I guess they always will

www.whitegum.com/songfile/NEWSPEED.HTM
  

    
268/366 From 'Let The Mountain Be My Home':

I heard the golden eagle's disappearing cry
Wings of beaten lightning flashed from skies beyond the sky

www.whitegum.com/songfile/LETTHEMO.HTM
  

    
269/366 From 'Manila Farewell', music by Mickey Hart:

When the laws plunder all that it deserves
You know you often wonder just who is it that serves

www.whitegum.com/songfile/MANILAFA.HTM
  

    
260/366 (recent numbering got a bit confused) From 'A Glass Of Wine
At The End Of Time', in Box Of Rain but never performed as far as I
know:

Miles of morning, acres of night
By noon the sun unbearably bright

www.whitegum.com/songfile/GLASSOFW.HTM
  

    
261/366 From 'Rum Runners':

After all the trial and fury
They spared the judge and hanged the jury
17/261 Rum Runners
www.whitegum.com/songfile/RUMRUNNE.HTM
  

    
262/366 From 'Meet Me In Mexico', another lyric in Box Of Rain:

May go by riverboat, taxicab or billy goat
Swim there in my overcoat, I'm going just the same

www.whitegum.com/songfile/MEETMEXI.HTM