Dead Songs in Depth

    
263/366 From 'Joy, Joy, Joy', on Jim Lauderdale's and Ralph
Stanley's album I Feel Like Singing Today:

A dozen times a day I stop and thank the Lord for you
For all the kindness that you bring, for all the things you do

www.whitegum.com/songfile/JOYJOYJO.HTM
  

    
264/366 From 'Over The Hills' on Robert Hunter's album Tiger Rose:

I can't recall the words or the tune so clearly
But I know when I hear it and I love it dearly

www.whitegum.com/songfile/OVERTHEH.HTM
  

    
265/366 From 'Six Of One', a Hunter/Nelson song on the NRPS album 17
Pine Avenue:

Took a dog for a walk, write another line for this song
Well I could use the exercise, this one's already too long

www.whitegum.com/songfile/SIXOFONE.HTM
  

    
266/366 From 'Sangre De Cristo', a lyric for Mickey Hart's Mystery
Box:

High on the mountain the sun rides low
Last shades of twilight, red mountain white with snow

www.whitegum.com/songfile/SANGREDE.HTM
  

    
267/366 From 'What’ll You Raise', recorded as an outtake on Go To
Heaven and also (in different version) on Robert Hunter's album Rock
Columbia:

Dive for the diamonds or shoot for the heart
It's all uncertain but that's the art

www.whitegum.com/songfile/WHAT1LYO.HTM
  

    
I like that one, inspired to investigate further.
  

    
268/366 From 'Return To Terrapin'. Driving past Stonehenge yesterday
made me think of this:

Pale through this ghostly haze, the dawn of a newborn moon
Illuminates this ancient maze of tumbled stones rough hewn

www.whitegum.com/songfile/RETURNTO.HTM
  

    
>>Dring past Stonehenge

bucket list for me, and i don't have much of a list
  

    
267/366 From 'Born Sidestepper', a lyric from "Box Of Rain" set to
music by David Nelson:

Years die but love do not weep, new ones coming along
They're bound to go wrong, they cost you your sleep
But they don't have to cut too deep

www.whitegum.com/songfile/BORNSIDE.HTM
  

    
270/366 From 'Touch Of Darkness', recorded on Robert Hunter's album
Promontory Rider:

Little touch of darkness, dark and the deeper shades of gray
Momentary madness, this, too, will pass away

www.whitegum.com/songfile/TOUCHDAR.HTM
  

    
271/366 From 'Roll Me Over On The Tide', one of the lyrics written
for the band Zero:

Sense of time was all you needed, your garden grew but never got
weeded
Things came up you didn't plan to grow, they always do, you know

www.whitegum.com/songfile/ROLLMEOV.HTM
  

    
272/366 From ' Four White Horses'. Seems sort of appropriate given
COVID symptoms:

When all things sweet have lost their taste
And a well-meant smile just cracks like paste

www.whitegum.com/songfile/FOURWHIT.HTM
  

    
273/366 From 'Red Car', on Robert Hunter's album Live '85

Nothing to show for the years but a kind of lukewarm blues
Now you come shining through my tears how can I refuse

www.whitegum.com/songfile/REDCAR.HTM
  

    
274/366 From ' New Orleans crawl', a lyric for Seven Walkers:

Politicians climb up the wall
That's how they do the New Orleans crawl

www.whitegum.com/songfile/NEWORLCR.HTM
  

    
I loved Seven Walker.
  

    

I did, too.
  

    
Yup.
  

    
275/366 From 'The Song Goes On' on RH's album Liberty:

Standing by the riverside we shall not be moved
Until the situation is very much improved

www.whitegum.com/songfile/SONGGOES.HTM
  

    
276/366 From 'Possession', a lyric for Zero:

The scene of the crime is the ballot box
And people who vote from fear

www.whitegum.com/songfile/POSSESSI.HTM
  

    
277/366 From  'Althea':

Can't talk to you without talking to me, we're guilty of the same
old thing
Thinking a lot about less and less and forgetting the love we bring

www.whitegum.com/songfile/ALTHEA.HTM
  

    
278/366 From 'Lovin’ Spoonful #9':

If dogs could crow and hens could bark
Wouldn't get no sleep on Noah's Ark

www.whitegum.com/songfile/LOVSPOO9.HTM
  

    
279/366 From 'Slack String Quartet':

You say your name is trouble, that's my name too
I must be seeing double or I look a lot like you

www.whitegum.com/songfile/SLACKSTR.HTM
  

    
280/366 From 'Independence Day':

And it isn't only matters that were settled long ago
And it isn't just the singer and it wasn't just a show

www.whitegum.com/songfile/INDEPDAY.HTM
  

    
281/366 From 'Dance A Hole', on RH's album Tiger Rose"

The past is not the only highway, why go roll it out again?
The future's in the unborn river of this morning's cloudless rain

www.whitegum.com/songfile/DANCEAHO.HTM
  

    
282/366 From 'Slow Joe Rain', on Mickey Hart's album Mysterium
Tremendum:

It's just my observation, you can take it for what it's worth
If you can't fix a busted heart don't try to save the earth

www.whitegum.com/songfile/SLOJORAI.HTM