My Favorite Dead Tunes

The song titles are in orange
The songwriters are in blue
The first album in which the song appeared is in amber
A sample of the lyrics are in grey

The Top 15

 1. Ripple   Hunter/Garcia American Beauty
    "If I knew the way, I would take you home."

 2. Bertha    Hunter/Garcia    Grateful Dead
     "That's why if you please, I am on my bended knees,
       Bertha don't you come around here anymore."

 3. Cumberland Blues    Hunter/Garcia/Lesh   Workingman's Dead
     "Make good money, five dollars a day.  Made any more I might                  move away."

 4. Mississippi Half Step Uptown Toodeloo 
                                     Hunter/Garcia Wake of the Flood
     "What's the point in calling shots, this cue ain't straight in line."

 5. U. S. Blues   Hunter/Garcia   Mars Hotel
    "Red and white, blue suede shoes.  I'm Uncle Sam, how do you do?"

6. Truckin     Hunter/Garcia/Weir/Lesh     American Beauty   
"Lately it occurred to me, what a long strange trip its been."

 7. Touch of Grey Hunter/Garcia    In the Dark
   "Every silver lining's got a touch of grey."

 8. Tennessee Jed    Hunter/Garcia    Europe '72
    "Drink all day, rock all night.  The law come to get you if you don't
       walk right."
    
9. Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad   Traditional   Grateful Dead
    "Goin' down the road feeling bad, don't want to to be treated this a
       way."

10. Alabama Getaway    Hunter/Garcia    Go to Heaven
"Twenty two teeth in a jawbone, Alabama trying for none."

 11. Friend of the Devil Hunter/Garcia    American Beauty
    "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."

12. Me and My Uncle   John Phillips    Grateful Dead
   "I'm as honest as a Denver man can be."

13. Box of Rain    Hunter/Lesh    American Beauty
    "And it's just a box of rain or a ribbon for your hair.  Such a long,
      long time to be gone and a short time to be there."

14. Wharf Rat     Hunter/Garcia    Grateful Dead
     "Blind and dirty asked me for a dime, a dime for a cup of coffee.
     I got no dime but I got some time to hear his story."

15. Dire Wolf    Hunter/Garcia    Workingman's Dead
      "When I awoke, the dire wolf, six hundred pounds of sin
was grinning at my window, all I said was 'Come on in' ."




                                                                               
                        
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