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| UNCLE JOHN'S BAND Well the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry any more 'Cause when life looks like easy street, there is danger at your door Think this through with me, let me know your mind Wo-oh, what I want to know is, are you kind? It's a buck dancer's choice my friend, better take my advice You know all the rules by now, and the fire from the ice Will you come with me, won't you come with me? Wo-oh, what I want to know, will you come with me? God damn, well I declare, have you seen the like? Their walls are built of cannon balls Their motto is "don't" tread on me" |
| Come hear Uncle John's Band, playing to the tide Come with me or go alone He's come to take his children home It's the same story the crow told me, it's the only one he knows Like the morning sun you come and like the wind you go Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait Wo-oh, what I want to know, where does the time go? I live in a silver mine and I call it beggar's tomb I got me a violin and I beg you call the tune Anybody's choice, I can hear your voice Wo-oh, what I want to know, how does the song go? |
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| Come hear Uncle John's Band, playing to the tide Come with me or go alone He's come to take his children home |
| Come hear Uncle John's Band, by the river side Got some things to talk about Here beside the rising tide |
| Wo-oh what I want to know, how does the song go? |
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| For four decades Garcia was a leading light on the west coast musical scene - he was credited on Jefferson Airplane 's Surrealistic Pillow as 'musical and spiritual adviser' and known locally as 'Captain Trips'. In addition to his session work with the Airplane, he worked with David Crosby, Paul Kantner , Jefferson Starship , New Riders Of The Purple Sage and Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young as well as various spin-offs involving David Nelson, John Kahn (b. 1948, d. 30 May 1996), Merl Saunders and Howard Wales. Garcia was equally at home on banjo and pedal-steel guitar, and had the ability to play two entirely different styles of music without a hint of musical overlap (rock 'n' roll/blues and country/bluegrass). His flowing manner was all the more remarkable given that the third finger of his left hand was missing, owing to an accident as a child. Garcia was known and loved as a true hippie who never 'sold out'. Following his heroin addiction and much publicized near-death in 1986, Garcia philosophically stated, 'I'm 45 years old, I'm ready for anything, I didn't even plan on living this long so all this shit is add-on stuff.' But he continued touring and recording, with the Dead and on his own, until shortly before his death from a heart attack during a stay at a treatment centre near his home in Marin County, California |
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