My Favorite Dead Tunes
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Numbers 46 through 60

46. Blow Away     Brent Mydland   Built to Last
"Like a feather in a whirlwind, blow away."

47. Walkin' Blues     Robert Johnson     Without a Net
"Some people tell you that the blues ain't bad.  Worst old feeling that I ever had."

48. Monkey and the Engineer   
Jesse Fuller     Reckoning
"The monkey pulled the throttle, locomotive jumped the gun.
Doing ninety miles an hour down the mainline run."


49. Easy Wind    
Hunter/Ron McKernan    Workingman's Dead
"Gotta find a woman be good to me.  Won't hide my liquor, try to serve me tea."

50.  To Lay Me Down   
Hunter/Garcia    Reckoning
"Let the world go by all lost in dreaming.  Yo lay me down one last time, to lay me down."

51. Franklin's Tower    Hunter/Garcia   Blues For Allah
"Some come to laugh their past away.  Some come to make it one more day."


52. It Must Have Been the Roses  
Hunter  Steal Your Face
"I don't know maybe it was the roses.  All I know was I could not leave her there."

53. China Cat Sunflower     Hunter/Garcia    Aoxomoxoa
"Krazy Kat peeking through a lace bandana, like a one-eyed Chashire, like a diamond-eyed Jack."


54. Shakedown Street   
Hunter/Garcia    Shakedown Street
"Don't tell me this town ain't got no heart.  You just got to poke around."

55. Althea    
Hunter/Garcia     Go to Heaven
"I told Althea I was a roving sign, born to be a bachelor.  Althea told me, OK that's fine.  Now I'm trying to catch her."

56. Unbroken Chain  
Peterson/Lesh    Mars Hotel
"November and more as I wait for the score.  They're telling me forgiveness is the key to every door."

57. Ramble On Rose   
Hunter/Garcia   Europe '72
"The grass ain't greener, the wine ain't sweeter either side of the hill."

58. Row Jimmy  Hunter/Garcia    Wake of the Flood
"Julie catch a rabbit by his hair.  Come back step like to walk on air."

59. Dupree's Diamond Blues   
Garcia/Hunter/Lesh    Aoxomoxoa
"Many a man's done a terrible thing, just to get baby that shiny diamond ring."

60. Hell in a Bucket    Barlow/Weir    In the Dark
"I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe, but at least I'm enjoying the ride."



   


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