Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Jerry Garcia
Wake of the flood, laughing water, forty nineNotes
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]
Wake of the flood, laughing water, in and out the door(thanks to Jessie Jarnow for pointing this out)
Get out the boats, don't you stand there dreaming
Get out the way
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 |
"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.