Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Jerry Garcia
All of my friends come to see me last night
I was laying in my bed and dying
Annie Beauneu from Saint Angel (note 1)
Say "the weather down here so fine"
Just then the wind came squalling through the door (note 2)
But who can the weather command
Just want to have a little peace to die
And a friend or two I love at hand
Fever roll up to a hundred and five
Roll on up, gonna roll back down
One more day I find myself alive
Tomorrow maybe go beneath the ground
See here how everything
Lead up to this day
And it's just like any other day
That's ever been
Sun going up and then
The sun going down
Shine through my window
And my friends they come around
Come around, come around
The people might know, but the people don't care
That a man can be as poor as me (note 3)
Take a look at poor Peter, he's lying in pain
Now let's come run and see
Run and see
Run and see
Run, run and see, and see
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Date | Album | Recorded By | |||
1989 | Fiddlehead Blues | Randy Sabien | |||
1989 | Classical Music | The Palookas | |||
9 Aug 1995 | Stolen Roses | Patti Smith Band | |||
1996 | DeadBeats Acoustic | DeadBeats | |||
2000 | Live In Amsterdam | Billy Goodman | |||
2001 | Solo Acoustic | David Gans | |||
2001 | Blues Tribute To The Grateful Dead | Various (Richie and the Pocket Rockets) | |||
2001 | Built To Grass | Grass Is Dead | |||
2003 | Solo Acoustic | David Gans | |||
8 Feb 2006 | Live At The Fillmore | Grateful Grass | |||
2007 | At Fine Arts Center, UMass | The American Beauty Project | |||
2007 | Live At The Starlight 07 | Mo Pair and the Ugly Mooks | |||
2008 | 30 Years | Jake's Leg | |||
2008 | Fennario: Songs by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter | Emory Joseph | |||
2008 | Piano Expressions | Lore Constantine | |||
2009 | Henry Kaiser Plays Dead | David Gans and Henry Kaiser | |||
2009 | Piano Expressions | Lorne Constantine | |||
2009 | Hiding Under The Covers | Alison Scott | |||
2010 | At Page Auditorium, Duke University | The American Beauty Project | |||
2014 | Steel Drivin' Man | Joe Goldmark with John McFee | |||
2010 | Dead To The Core | Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers | |||
2015 | It's A Hand-Me-Down | David Gans | |||
2015 | Songs Of Their Own | Pete Lavezzoli | |||
2016 | Songs To Fill The Air (WFMU Pledge Drive) | Matt Valentine | |||
2016 | Day Of The Dead | Anohni and yMusic | |||
2019 | Dead Air | Scott Miller | |||
2020 | Bodhisattva Blues | Reverend Freakchild |