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The Grateful Dead

by Grateful Dead

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Overall Rating: 2.5233 The Grateful Dead is ranked overall as 2.5233 out of 4 stars
Avg. Critic Score: 2.8667 The Grateful Dead has an avg. critic score of 2.8667 out of 4 stars
 
  • See that girl, barefootin' along,
  • Whistlin' and singin', she's a carryin' on.
  • There's laughing in her eyes, dancing in her feet,
  • She's a neon-light diamond and she can live on the street.
  • Hey hey, hey, come right away
  • Come and join the party every day.
  • Well everybody's dancin' in a ring around the sun
  • Nobody's finished, we ain't even begun.
  • So take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat.
  • Try on your wings and find our where it's at.
  • Hey hey, hey, come right away
  • Come and join the party every day.
  • Take a vacation, fall out for a while,
  • Summer's comin' in, and it's goin' outa style
  • Cause your mother's down in Memphis, won't be back 'till the fall.
  • Hey hey, hey, come right away
  • Come and join the party every day.
 
  • Well this job I've got is just a little too hard,
  • Running out of money, Lord, I need more pay.
  • Gonna wake up in the morning Lord, gonna pack my bags,
  • I'm gonna beat it on down the line.
  • I'm goin' down the line, goin down the line,
  • Goin' down the line, goin down the line,
  • Goin' down the line, goin down the line,
  • Beat it on down the line.
  • Yes I'll be waiting at the station Lord, when that train pulls on by,
  • I'm going back where I belong.
  • I'm going back to that same old used-to-be,
  • Down in Joe Brown's coal mine.
  • Coal mine, coal mine, coal mine, coal mine.
  • Coal mine, coal mine, coal mine, coal mine.
  • Coal mine, coal mine, coal mine, coal mine.
  • Down in Joe Brown's coal mine.
  • Yeah, I'm goin' back to that shack way across that railroad track,
  • Uh huh, that's where I think I belong.
  • And that's where I'm gonna make my happy home.
  • Happy home, happy home, happy home, happy home.
  • Happy home, happy home, happy home, happy home.
  • Happy home, happy home, happy home, happy home.
  • That's where I'm gonna make my happy home.
 
  • Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
  • Tell your mama and your papa I'm a little schoolboy too.
  • Come on now pretty baby I just can't help myself
  • You're so young and pretty I don't need nobody else.
  • Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
  • Don't you hear me crying?
  • I'm gonna leave you baby about the break of day
  • On account of the way you treat me, I got to stay away.
  • Come on now pretty baby darling com on home
  • You know I love you baby, I got to get you all alone.
  • Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
  • Don't you hear me crying?
  • I'm gonna buy me an airplane and fly all over your town
  • Tell everybody baby, lord knows you're fine
  • Come on pretty baby now, I just can't help myself
  • You're so young and pretty I don't need nobody else.
  • Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
  • Don't you hear me crying?
  • Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
  • Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
  • Tell your mama and your papa I'm a little schoolboy too.
  • I'm a schoolboy, too. Hey, I'm a schoolboy, too.
  • I want to be your chauffeur, I want to ride your little machine
  • I want to be your chauffeur, I want to ride your little machine
  • I want to put a tiger, baby I want to put a tiger, baby.
  • I want to put a tiger, baby, hey in your sweet little tank.
  • Hey baby now yes I do ha, yes I do
  • Hey I got to hey, I got to come on home with you
  • Tell your mama, tell your papa, tell your mama and your papa
  • Hey, I'm a schoolboy, too, hey, hey, I'm a schoolboy, too.
  • Ha oww, I'm a schoolboy, too, ow, I wanna keep your company
  • Hey I wanna keep your company.
 
  • Well I married me a wife, she's been trouble all my life
  • Run me out in the cold rain and snow
  • Rain and snow, run me out in the cold rain and snow
  • Well she's coming down the stairs, combin' back her yellow hair
  • And I ain't goin be treated this ol' way
  • Well she went up to her room where she sang her faithful tune
  • Well I'm goin where those chilly winds don`t blow
 
  • No, no! She can't take your mind and leave
  • I know it's just another trick she's got up her sleeve
  • I can't believe that she really wants you to die
  • After all it's more than enough to pay for your lie
  • Wait a minute, watch what you're doin' with your time
  • All the endless ruins of the past must stay behind, yeah
  • Well, can't you see that you're killing each other's soul
  • Well, you're both out in the streets and you got no place to go
  • Your constant battes are getting to be a bore
  • So go somewhere else and continue your cream puff war
 
  • Walk me out in the morning dew my honey,
  • Walk me out in the morning dew today.
  • I can't walk you out in the morning dew my honey,
  • I can't walk you out in the morning dew today.
  • I thought I heard a baby cry this morning,
  • I thought I heard a baby cry this today.
  • You didn't hear no baby cry this morning,
  • You didn't hear no baby cry today.
  • Where have all the people gone my honey,
  • Where have all the people gone today.
  • There's no need for you to be worrying about all those people,
  • You never see those people anyway.
  • I thought I heard a young man morn this morning,
  • I thought I heard a young man morn today.
  • I thought I heard a young man morn this morning,
  • I can't walk you out in the morning dew today.
  • Walk me out in the morning dew my honey,
  • Walk me out in the morning dew today.
  • I'll walk you out in the morning dew my honey,
  • I guess it doesn't really matter anyway,
  • I guess it doesn't matter anyway,
  • I guess it doesn't matter anyway,
  • Guess it doesn't matter anyway.
 
  • The judge decreed it, the clerk he wrote it.
  • Clerk he wrote it down indeed-e
  • Judge decreed it, clerk he wrote it down
  • Give you this jail sentence you'll be Nashville bound
  • Some got six month some got one solid.
  • Some got one solid year indeed-e
  • Some got six month some got one solid.
  • But me and my buddies all got lifetime here
  • I wrote a letter I mailed in the air, Mailed it on the air indeed-e
  • I wrote a letter I mailed in the air.
  • You may know by that I've got a friend somewhere

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