Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Jerry Garcia
Carve your name, carve your name in ice and windNotes
Search for where, search for where the rivers end
Or where the rivers start
Do everything that's in you, you feel to be your part
But never give your love my friend unto a foolish heart
Unto a foolish heart
Dare to leap, leap from ledges high and wild (note a)
Learn to speak, speak with wisdom like a child
Directly to the heart (note b)
Crown yourself the king of clowns or stand way back apart (note c)
But never give your love my friend unto a foolish heart
Unto a foolish heart
Shun a friend, shun a brother and a friend
Never look, never look around the bend
Or check the weather chart
Sign the Mona Lisa with a spray can, call it art
But never give your love my friend unto a foolish heart
Unto a foolish heart
A foolish heart will call on you to toss your dreams away
Then turn around and blame you for the way you went astray
A foolish heart will cost you sleep and often make you curse (note d)
A selfish heart is trouble, but a foolish heart is worse
Bite the hand, bite the hand that bakes your bread
Dare to leap, where the angels fear to tread (note e)<
Till you are torn apart
Stoke the fires of paradise with coals from hell to start
But never give you love my friend unto a foolish heart
Unto a foolish heart
Grateful Dead Recordings | |||||
Date | Album | ||||
28 Jun 1988 | 30 Days Of The Dead (2016) | ||||
16 Oct 1988 | 30 Days Of The Dead (2014) | ||||
studio 1989 | Built To Last (note 1) | ||||
2 Apr 1989 | Download Series Vol 9 | ||||
19 Jul 1989 | Built To Last (note 2) | ||||
10 Jul 1989 | Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991 Boxed Set (note 4) | ||||
8 Oct 1989 | Warlocks Box | ||||
26 Oct 1989 | 30 Trips Around The Sun | ||||
19 Mar 1990 | Spring 1990 | ||||
28 Mar 1990 | Spring 1990 (The Other One) | ||||
2 Apr 1990 | Spring 1990 | ||||
12 Jul 1990 | View From The Vault II (DVD & CD soundtrack) | ||||
19 Jul 1990 | Dave's Picks Volume 40 | ||||
18 Sep 1990 | Road Trips Number 2, Volume 1 (bonus disc) | ||||
11 Jun 1992 | 30 Days Of The Dead (2023) | ||||
11 Jun 1993 | (official YouTube video only) | ||||
21 Feb 1995 | 30 Trips Around The Sun | ||||
4 Jul 2015 | Fare Thee Well (CD and DVD) | ||||
Other Recordings | |||||
2004 | 20 Degrees Of Solitude | The Grass Is Dead | |||
2011 | Songs For A New Day: Almost Acoustic | Phil McGee |