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Earth_First Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-30-04 01:43 PM
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Thought I heard a blackbird singin'
up on Bluebird Hill
Call me a whinin' boy if you will
Born where the sun don't shine
and I don't deny my name
Got no place to go, ain't that a shame?

Thought I heard that KC whistle
moanin' sweet & low
Thought I heard that KC when she blow
Down where the sun don't shine
Underneath the Kokomo
Whinin' boy -- got no place else to go

So many roads I tell you
So many roads I know
So many roads --
so many roads --
Mountain high, river wide
So many roads to ride
So many roads
So many roads

Thought I heard a jug band playin'
"If you don't -- who else will?"
from over on the far side of the hill
All I know the sun don't shine,
the rain refuse to fall
and you don't seem to hear me when I call

Wind inside & the wind outside
Tangled in the window blind
Tell me why you treat me so unkind
Down where the sun don't shine
Lonely and I call your name
No place left to go, ain't that a shame?

So many roads I tell you
New York to San Francisco
All I want is one
to take me home
From the high road to the low
So many roads I know
So many roads - So many roads

From the land of the midnight sun
where ice blue roses grow
'long those roads of gold and silver snow
Howlin' wide or moanin low
So many roads I know
So many roads to ease my soul


:grouphug:
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-30-04 01:44 PM
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1. Thanks!
Thanks to you and the boys :).
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Earth_First Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-30-04 01:45 PM
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2. I still get teary eyed listening to this...
almost every time, without fail...
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-30-04 01:47 PM
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3. This and 'Days Between' always get me :).
Edited on Fri Apr-30-04 01:48 PM by ET Awful
There were days
and there were days
and there were days between
Summer flies and August dies
the world grows dark and mean
Comes the shimmer of the moon
on black infested trees
the singing man is at his song
the holy on their knees
the reckless are out wrecking
the timid plead their pleas
No one knows much more of this
than anyone can see anyone can see

There were days
and there were days
and there were days besides
when phantom ships with phantom sails
set to sea on phantom tides
Comes the lightning of the sun
on bright unfocused eyes
the blue of yet another day
a springtime wet with sighs
a hopeful candle lingers
in the land of lullabies
where headless horsemen vanish
with wild and lonely cries lonely cries


There were days
and there were days
and there were days I know
when all we ever wanted
was to learn and love and grow
Once we grew into our shoes
we told them where to go
walked halfway around the world
on promise of the glow
stood upon a mountain top
walked barefoot in the snow
gave the best we had to give
how much we'll never know we'll never know


There were days
and there were days
and there were days between
polished like a golden bowl
the finest ever seen
Hearts of Summer held in trust
still tender, young and green
left on shelves collecting dust
not knowing what they mean
valentines of flesh and blood
as soft as velveteen
hoping love would not forsake
the days that lie between lie between


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Earth_First Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-30-04 01:50 PM
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4. I've shared this quite a few times here before...
however, if you're not aware of this archive, there are 1073 shows from a variety of HOT dead years available for stream and download from this site:

http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?collection=etree&cat=Grateful%20Dead

Perhaps, you'll find a few that you were at...
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-30-04 01:57 PM
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5. Yes indeed, and thanks again for posting the link.
You posted it the other day and I haven't had time to download anything yet.

I may do that tonight :).
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