Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Jerry Garcia
Fare you well, my honey
Fare you well, my only true one
All the birds that were singing
Are flown, except you alone
Gonna leave this brokedown 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
Singing a lullaby beside the water
Lovers come and go, the river will 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
Other Dead-related Recordings | |||||
Date | Album | Recorded By | |||
1 Dec 2012 | A Buckdancer's Choice | Mickey Hart Band | |||
Jun 2021 | Live In Colorado | Bob Weir & Wolf Bros |
Other Recordings | |||||
Date | Album | Recorded By | |||
1995 | Eternity Blue | Henry Kaiser | |||
1996 | I Love Everything | Will Hale | |||
1996 | Whetstone Bridge | Whetstone Bridge | |||
1997 | Jake's Leg | Jake's Leg | |||
1997 | Wind River Crossing | Keith Greeninger | |||
1998 | Into The Now | Into The Now | |||
2000 | Reel Life, Vol 1 | Wild Colonials | |||
2000 | Do Right | Jimmie's Chicken Shack | |||
2000 | Dead Grass | Vassar Clements | |||
2000 | Might As Well | The Persuasions (note 4) | |||
2001 | Solo Acoustic | David Gans | |||
2001 | Gratefully Yours | Jim Hudak | |||
2001 | Built To Grass | Grass Is Dead | |||
2002 | Electronic Tribute To The Grateful Dead | Various (Kinetika) | |||
2003 | Solo Acoustic | David Gans | |||
2004 | Pebbles and Ripples | Bonny 'Prince' Billy & Brightback | |||
2005 | Jerry Jams, Jerry Cares | Mel Brody | |||
2005 | The Art Of Virtue | Adrienne Young & Little Sadie | |||
2006 | Pretty Little Stranger | Joan Osborne | |||
2007 | At Fine Arts Center, UMass | The American Beauty Project | |||
2008 | Act Live | Kate Lamont and Blueprintmusic | |||
2008 | Before This Time | Ollabelle | |||
2008 | Merlfest, April 26 2008 | Ollabelle | |||
2009 | Frontier Blues | Renegade Minstrels | |||
2010 | More Me | Scott Franson | |||
2010 | At Page Auditorium, Duke University | The American Beauty Project | |||
2010 | Dead To The Core | Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers | |||
2010 | House Concert, Club Meg, Missoula MT | David Gans (note 5) | |||
2010 | Erleichda | Roy Scheider | |||
2011 | Folk Standards | Pascal Maupeu | |||
2012 | Run For The Roses | Tim Bluhm et al (Rex Foundation) | |||
2012 | Double Down Dead EP | Band Of Heathens | |||
2013 | Keys | Keller Willams | |||
2013 | The Grateful EP | Jackie Greene | |||
2013 | My Red Car | Lorne Constantine | |||
2013 | The Tri Sessions, Vol. 1 | Fog | |||
2015 | The Promised Land | Sagol 59 & Ami Yares | |||
2015 | Not In Nottingham | Watkins Family Hour | |||
2015 | It's A Hand-Me-Down | David Gans | |||
2015 | Songs Of Their Own | RThe Brothers Comatose | |||
2015 | Pretty Marsh | The Point | |||
2015 | Lookout: The EP | Kristin Andreassen | |||
2016 | Deal | Wake The Dead | |||
2016 | Day Of The Dead | Richard Reed Parry et al | |||
2017 | Dead Songs Vol 1 | Barton Hills Choir | |||
2017 | Mixtape | Mark Erelli | |||
2018 | [single] | Shinyribs | |||
2018 | Cut The Dead Some Slack | Stephen Inglis | |||
2019 | Mix Tape IV | Bonnie "Prince" Billy | |||
2019 | Brokedown Palace | The Invisible Bee | |||
2019 | Live At The Old Church | Holly Bowling | |||
2019 | Dead Air | Sammi Lanzeta |