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Friend
of the Devil
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I lit out from Reno
I was trailed by twenty hounds
Didn't get to sleep that night
Till the morning came around
I set out running but I take my time
A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight
I might get some sleep tonight
I ran into the Devil, babe
He loaned me twenty bills
I spent that night in Utah
In a cave up in the hills
I set out running but I take my time
A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight
I might get some sleep tonight
I ran down to the levee
But the Devil caught me there
He took my twenty-dollar bill
And he vanished in the air
I set out running but I take my time
A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight
I might get some sleep tonight |
Got two reasons why I cry
away each lonely night
First one's named sweet Anne Marie
and she's my heart's delight
Second one is prison, baby
the sheriff's on my trail
If he catches up with me
I'll spend my life in jail
Got a wife in Chino, babe
And one in Cherokee
First one says she's got my child
But it don't look like me
I set out running but I take my time
A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight
I might get some sleep tonight
You can borrow from the Devil
You can borrow from a friend
But the Devil will give you twenty
When your friend got only ten
I set out running but I take my time
A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight
I might get some sleep tonight
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Deal
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Since it costs a lot to win
and even more to lose
You and me bound to spend some time
wondering what to choose
Goes to show you don't ever know
Watch each card you play
and play it slow
Wait until your deal come round
Don't you let that deal go down
I been gambling hereabouts
for ten good solid years
If I told you all that went down
it would burn off both of your ears |
It goes to show you don't ever know
Watch each card you play
and play it slow
Wait until your deal come round
Don't you let that deal go down
Since you poured the wine for me
and tightened up my shoes
I hate to leave you sitting there
composin' lonesome blues
Goes to show you don't ever know
Watch each card you play
and play it slow
Wait until your deal come round
Don't you let that deal go down
Don't you let that deal go down, no
Don't you let your deal go down
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| Candyman |
Come all you pretty women
with your hair hanging down
Open up your windows 'cause
the Candyman's in town
Come on, boys, and gamble
Roll those laughing bones
Seven come eleven, boys
I'll take your money home
Look out
Look out
The Candyman
Here he come
and he's gone again
Pretty lady ain't
got no friend
Till the Candyman
come 'round again
I come in from Memphis
where I learned to talk the jive
When I get back to Memphis
be one less man alive.
Good mornin', Mr. Benson
I see you're doin' well
If I had me a shotgun
I'd blow you straight to Hell |
Look out
Look out
The Candyman
Here he come
and he's gone again
Pretty lady ain't
got no friend
Till the Candyman
come 'round again
Come on, boys, and wager
if you have got the mind
If you got a dollar, boys
lay it on the line
Hand me my old guitar
Pass the whiskey 'round
Want you to tell everybody you meet
the Candyman's in town
Look out
Look out
The Candyman
Here he come
and he's gone again
Pretty lady ain't
got no friend
Till the Candyman
come 'round again
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| Loser |
If I had a gun for every ace I've drawn
I could arm a town the size of Abilene
Don't you push me, baby, 'cause I'm moaning low
You know I'm only in it for the gold
All that I am asking for is ten gold dollars
I could pay you back with one good hand
You can look around about the wide world over
You'll never find another honest man
Last fair deal in the country, sweet Suzy
Last fair deal in the town
Put your gold money where your love is, baby
Before you let my deal go down |
Don't you push me baby
because I'm moaning low
I know a little something
you won't never know
Don't you touch hard liquor,
just a cup of cold coffee
Gonna get up
in the morning and go
Everybody's bragging and drinking that wine
I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shine
Come to Daddy on an inside straight
I got no chance of losing this time
No, I got no chance of losing this time
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| Franklin's
Tower |
In another time's forgotten space
your eyes looked through your mother's face
Wildflower seed on the sand and stone
may the four winds blow you safely home
Roll away . . . the dew
Roll away . . . the dew
Roll away . . . the dew
Roll away . . . the dew
You ask me where the four winds dwell
In Franklin's Tower there hangs a bell
It can ring, turn night to day
Ring like fire when you lose your way
Roll away . . . the dew
Roll away . . . the dew
Roll away . . . the dew
Roll away . . . the dew
God help the child who rings that bell
It may have one good ring left, you can't tell
One watch by night, one watch by day
If you get confused, listen to the music play
Roll away . . . the dew
Roll away . . . the dew
Roll away . . . the dew
Roll away . . . the dew |
Some come to laugh their past away
Some come to make it just one more day
Whichever way your pleasure tends
If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind
Roll away . . . the dew
Roll away . . . the dew
Roll away . . . the dew
Roll away . . . the dew
In Franklin's Tower the four winds sleep
Like four lean hounds the lighthouse keep
Wildflower seeds in the sand and wind
May the four winds blow you home again
Roll away . . . the dew
Roll away . . . the dew
Roll away . . . the dew
Roll away . . . the dew
You better roll away
the dew. . . .
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| Fire
On The Mountain |
Long-distance runner, what you standing there
for?
Get up, get off, get out of the door
You're playing cold music on the barroom floor
drowned in your laughter and dead to the core
There's a dragon with matches that's loose on the town
Take a whole pail of water just to cool him down
Fire--Fire on the mountain
Fire--Fire on the mountain
Almost aflame, still you don't feel the heat
Takes all you got just to stay on the beat
You say it's a living, we all gotta eat
but you're here alone, there's no one to compete
If mercy's a business I wish it for you
More than just ashes when your dreams come true
Fire--Fire on the mountain
Fire--Fire on the mountain
Baby's in scrarlet, her shackles in gray
If loves to love she's got it salted away
Out of the rat trap and under the wire
Out of the frying pan and into the fire
Put it down heavy, strip it down lean
Got to lay it down dirty and play it back clean
Fire--Fire on the mountain
Fire--Fire on the mountain |
Fireman, fireman, call off your dog
this isn't a blaze, it's just a hog in the log
Cut up in sections, squirming alive
lost to the world on that fifty-cent jive
There's a fire on the mountain, running around
what doesn't go up can never come down
Fire--Fire on the mountain
Fire--Fire on the mountain
Long-distance runner, what you holding out for?
Caught in slow motion in a dash for the door
The flame from your stage has now spread to the floor
You gave all you had, why you wanta give more?
The more that you give, the more it will take
to the thin line beyond which you really cannot fake
There's a fire
Fire on the mountain
Fire--
Fire on the mountain
"Written at Mickey Hart's ranch in heated inspiration
as the surrounding hills blazed and the fire approached the recording studio
where we were working; verses three and four don't appear in the Grateful
Dead recording of this song, but lines five and six of verse three became
one of our mottoes, along with 'Record More Than You Erase'." - Robert
Hunter
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| The
Greatest Story Ever Told |
Moses came riding up a guitar
His spurs were a-jingling, the door was ajar
His buckle was silver, his manner was bold
I asked him to come on in out of the cold
His brain was boiling, his reason was spent
He said: If nothing was borrowed, then nothing was
lent
I asked him for mercy, he gave me a gun
Said: Now 'n' again these things just got to be done
Abraham and Isaac
sitting on a fence
You'd get right to work
if you had any sense
Y'know the one thing we need
is a left-hand monkey wrench |
Gideon come in with his eyes on the floor
Says: Y'ain't got a hinge, you can't close the door
Moses stood up, a full six foot ten
Says: You can't close the door when the wall's caved
in
Asked him for water, he poured me some wine
We finished the bottle, then broke into mine
You get what you come for, you're ready to go
It's one in ten thousand just come for the show
Abraham and Isaac
Digging on a well
Mama come quick
with the water-witch spell
Cool clear water
where you can't never tell
"Also known as 'Pumpman' and 'Moses' - I wrote this
to the rhythm of the pump in Mickey Hart's well. In the first line,Bob
Weir, who gave the song its present complimentary title, sings quasar
rather than guitar." - Robert Hunter
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| Broke-Down
Palace |
Fare you well, my honey
Fare you well my only true one
All the birds that were singing
Have flown except you alone
Going to leave this broke-down palace
On my hands and my knees I will roll, roll, roll
Make myself a bed by the waterside
In my time -- in my time -- I will roll, roll, roll
In a bed, in a bed
by the waterside I will lay my head
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul
River gonna take me
Sing me sweet and sleepy
Sing me sweet and sleepy
all the way back home |
It's a far-gone lullaby
sung many years ago
Mama, Mama many worlds I've come
since I first left home
Going home, going home
by the waterside I will rest my bones
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul
Going to plant a weeping willow
On the bank's green edge, it will grow, grow, grow
Sing a lullaby beside the water
Lovers come and go -- the river roll, roll, roll.
Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul
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