Dead Songs in Depth

    
303/366 From 'Mountains Of The Moon' (a couplet Hunter re-wrote but
the Dead never used):

Here is a feast of solitude, a fiddler grim and tall
Plays to dancing kings and wives assembled in the hall

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304/366 From 'Do Deny (Lying Man)' on RH's album Liberty:

Before you even say hello here's how we could agree
You do what pleases you and I do what pleases me

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305/366 From 'Trying To Be Free' (one of the additional lyrics in
the 1993 Penguin edition of Box Of Rain):

Who can tell the things we tried in hopes of victory
Took on faith or else denied while trying to be free

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306/366 From 'Tiger And The Monkey', on Jim Lauderdale's album
Reason And Rhyme:

Why don't you just postpone your war
Clothe your hungry, feed your poor

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307/366 From 'Dry Dusty Road', on Robert Hunter's album Tales Of The
Great Rum Runners:

In that flame I saw a face I've never seen before
If they ask me why, I know just who I done this for

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308/366 From 'You Remind' on Mickey Hart's album RAMU:

You remind me of feather pillows
Georgia dawns and weeping willows

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309/366 From 'Salome', music by Bill Payne, on Little Feat's album
Rooster Rag:

She got corn on the cob, black-eyed peas and ham
Served with salty gravy for the kind of man I am

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310/366 From 'Might As Well':

No big hurry, what do you say
Might as well travel the elegant way

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311/366 From 'Some Of These Days', a lyric in Box Of Rain:

I been sitting here all night long with a pencil and my guitar
Sometimes a line pops into my head to the tune of a passing car

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312/366 From 'Dead Man Dancing':

Long ago and far away there was nothing much to do
Sit here on the top of the world and watch the light shine through

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313/366 From 'Bird Song':

If you hear that same sweet song again, will you know why?
Anyone who sings a tune so sweet is passing by

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314/366 From 'Roving Sign', on Moonlight Rodeo's album Rio Lindo:

I may go straight to heaven when I kick this mortal shell
Or I may lay low in Texas - what the hell

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315/366 From 'Dance A Hole', on the album Tiger Rose:

You can play with power and money, you can play with towers above
Draw the line there, if you're able, don't you ever play with love

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316/366 From 'Cupful Of Rain':

The tent has been folded and stowed on the train, the circus rolls
off in the night
Only the marks of its passing remain in the chill of the cold
morning light

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Rollicking, rolling, Robert Burns rhythm.
  

    
317/366 From 'By The Yard;, on Jim Lauderdale's album Black Roses:

A raft made of match sticks, fishing twine and prayer
Not built to shoot rapids but who am I to care

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318/366 From 'Spoken For', a Hunter lyric for Zero:

Spoken for, the roar of the water on the white sea sand
Spoken for, the fruit of the valley where I make my stand

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319/366 From 'Promontory Rider'

Fit me out with heart and wings and fill my head with crowns
I been crawlin' in this hill but now I'm rolling down

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320/366 From 'The Song Remains', introduced on Robert Hunter's solo
tour in 1997:

Say to your lover, please don't go
It's a long way home through the falling snow

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321/366 From 'Where I Come From', a Hunter/Nelson song played by
NRPS:

Where I come from all the roads are rocky and steep
And you aren't judged by the company you keep

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I love that song! Title track of a NRPS album, and the DNB does it a lot too.
  

    
322/366 From 'John Silver', the first part of Robert Hunter's Eagle
Mall Suite:

A mighty old giant from the dawn of time
He moved like a dancer through the pits of lime

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323/366 From 'Rock Columbia':

Up on the mountain I saw cities spread out like a map
San Francisco away to my left, New York right in my lap

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324/366 From 'Terrapin Station':

From the north-west corner of a brand new crescent moon
Where crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune

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234/366 From Reelin' And A-Pitchin':

Order in the court, the judge is eatin' beans
Clerk is in the bathtub sinkin' submarines

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