Here Comes Sunshine

Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Jerry Garcia

Wake of the flood, laughing water, forty nine
Get out the pans, don't just stand there dreaming, get out the way
Get out the way

Chorus
Here comes sunshine
Here comes sunshine (note 1)

Line up a long shot, maybe try it two times, maybe more
Good to know you got shoes to wear, when you find the floor
Why hold out for more

[chorus]

Asking you nice now, keep the mother rolling, one more time
Been down before, you just don't have to go no more (note 2)
No more

[chorus]

Notes
(1) the manuscript lyrics (auctioned in 2002) have "One more time, one more time for music" at the end of the choruses
(2) the manuscript lyrics have "you may not have to go no more"
(3) the manuscript lyrics have an extra verse:

Wake of the flood, laughing water, in and out the door
Get out the boats, don't you stand there dreaming
Get out the way

(thanks to Jessie Jarnow for pointing this out)

Grateful Dead Recordings
	Date	Album
	studio 1973	Wake Of The Flood (note 4)
	studio 1973 (demo)	Wake Of The Flood (50th Anniversary Edition)
	24 Mar 1973	Dave's Picks Volume 32
	28 Mar 1973	Dave's Picks Volume 16
	2 Apr 1973	Dave's Picks Volume 21
	13 May 1973	Here Comes Sunshine
	20 May 1973	Here Comes Sunshine
	26 May 1973	Here Comes Sunshine
	10 Jun 1973	Here Comes Sunshine
	10 Jun 1973	30 Days Of The Dead (2017)
	22 Jun 1973	Pacific Northwest '73-'74
	26 Jun 1973	Pacific Northwest '73-'74
	7 Sep 1973	Dave's Picks Volume 38 (bonus disc)
	30 Oct 1973	Listen To The River: St Louis '71 '72 73
	9 Nov 1973	Winterland 1973 - The Complete Recordings
	14 Nov 1973	30 Trips Around The Sun (note 3)
	17 Nov 1973	Dave's Picks Volume 5 (note 2)
	21 Nov 1973	Road Trips Volume 4, Number 3
	30 Nov 1973	Dick's Picks Vol 14
	19 Dec 1973	Dick's Picks Vol 1
	23 Feb 1974	Dave's Picks Volume 42
	9 Mar 1993	30 Days Of The Dead (2023)
	29 Mar 1993	30 Days Of The Dead (2017) (note 5)
	26 May 1993	Road Trips Vol 2, No 4

(Plus live recordings by The Dead, Furthur, Dead & Company, Ratdog, Phil Lesh & Friends etc not listed here. See Grateful Dead Family Discography for a full list.)

Other Recordings
	Date	Album	Recorded By
	1999	Laughing Water	Jazz Is Dead
	2000	Crazy Fingers	The Grass Is Dead
	2000	Might As Well	The Persuasions (note 1)
	2007	Dead Symphony	Lee Johnson
	2015	9 Aug 2015, Omaha, NE	Yonder Mountain String Band (note 6)
	2016	Day Of The Dead	Real Estate
	2019	Dead Air	Minor Poet
	2019	Chip's Picks Vol 1	High Time

Notes
(1) re-released in 2011 on "Persuasions of the Dead"
(2) also made available for download on 30 Days Of The Dead (2012)
(3) also on the compilation 30 Trips Around The Sun: The Definitive Live Story 1965-1995
(4) also released as the Grateful Dead 7" single volume 8.
(5) also made available for download on 30 Days Of The Dead (2020)
(6) The list above includes only one illustrative example of the series of live recordings by these bands. For a full list see the Grateful Dead Family Discography.

Background
Robert Hunter's "Box Of Rain" has this note:

"Remembering the great Vanport, Washington flood of 1949, living in other people's homes, a family abandoned by father; second grade."

This site has background information on the flood referred to.

Further Information
For an online discussion of the lyrics to this song see the deadsongs.vue conference on The Well.
For more information on recordings see Matt Schofield's Grateful Dead Family Discography
For information on references in the lyrics see David Dodd's Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
For online chords and TAB see www.rukind.com
For sheet music, see:
Grateful Dead Songbook Volume 2 (piano arrangement)
Garcia/Hunter Songbook (vocal line and chords/TAB)