Lyrics: Peter Monk
Music: [none]
This was one of the three lyrics Peter Monk sent Jerry Garcia in around 1977. Thanks to Ed McCauley for passing a copy on to me.
The lyrics were sent under a covering letter:
JerryThere is no evidence Jerry Garcia ever did set them to music.
No way of knowing if you ever receive these
(Put my faith in God and the Grateful Dead)
Here are 3 sets of lyrics about some faces who stepped from the crowd "cabin's" about Jonathan Riester
Perhaps you can find a melody to immortalize one of these ghostly folks!
Om mani padme hum
Peter
Congratulations on Terrapin Station!
The light just touched the window
the first sun warms my bones
Night's been long ... but the dawn is here
and I'm one day further from where I was born
split some wood on the back porch
fixed the old Franklin stove ...
put on a kettle of water for coffee
cleaned up some weed and smoked ...
whistled a song to the creek out the window
splashing its way down the hill
then my son started gigglin'
at something' that made him sit still ...
an old friend appeared in the doorway
ghostly and frozen as lust ...
the sun danced low in the forest
cold shadows danced in the dust
"You'd do best to work on those shingles ...
the snow can't do nothin' but fall
the times are lean and gonna get leaner
and you ain't the master of nothin' at all"
The light just touched the window
the first sun warms my bones
the night's been long ... but the dawn is here
and I'm one day closer to where I'm goin'