Lyrics: MacDaniel
Music: MacDaniel
The Grateful Dead played this a few times in 1972 and once with the Neville Brothers in 1986.
The Grateful Dead's own versions are often no more than a few repetitions of "Hey Bo Diddley-dee" included within "Not Fade Away."
But Jerry Garcia sang a bit more on 23 May 1972:
Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley, have you heard?Confusingly, the "verse" above seems to come from Bo Diddley (a different song). The first two lines appear in Bo Diddley's original version of that song, and I have seen the second two lines in cover versions, so it may well be that Bo Diddley himself added them.
My pretty baby said she was a bird
Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley, where you been?
Round the world, gonna go again
Hey Bo Diddley-dee
Hey Bo Diddley-dee
Hey Bo Diddley-dee
Hey Bo Diddley-dee
Hey Bo Diddley-deeFor other "Bo Diddley" fragments/quotes see Mona and You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover.
Hey Bo Diddley-dee
Hey Bo Diddley-dee
Hey Bo Diddley-dee
Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley, have you heard?
Papa gonna buy you a mocking bird
If that mocking bird don't sing
Papa gonna buy you a diamond ring
If that diamond ring don't shine
Papa gonna buy you a looking glass
If that looking glass gets broke
Papa gonna buy you a [nanny goat]
Hey Bo Diddley-dee
Hey Bo Diddley-dee
Hey Bo Diddley-dee
Hey Bo Diddley-dee
Hey Bo Diddley-dee
Hey Bo Diddley-dee
Hey Bo Diddley-dee
Hey Bo Diddley-dee
Bo Diddley had a farm (Hey Bo Diddley)
And on that farm he had some women (Hey Bo Diddley)
Women here, women there (Hey Bo Diddley)
Women, women everywhere (Hey Bo Diddley)
But one little girl lived on the hill (Hey Bo Diddley)
She rustle and tussle like Bufalo Bill (Hey Bo Diddley)
One day she decided she go for a ride (Hey Bo Diddley)
With a pistol and a sword by her side (Hey Bo Diddley)
She rode right up to my front door (Hey Bo Diddley)
Knocked and knocked till her fist got sore (Hey Bo Diddley)
When she turned and walked away (Hey Bo Diddley)
All I could hear my baby say (Hey Bo Diddley)
Hey Bo Diddley (Hey Bo Diddley)
Hey Bo Diddley (Hey Bo Diddley)
Hey Bo Diddley (Hey Bo Diddley)
Hey Bo Diddley (Hey Bo Diddley)
Saw my baby run across the field (Hey Bo Diddley)
Slipping and a-sliding like a automobile (Hey Bo Diddley)
I hollered at my baby and told her to wait (Hey Bo Diddley)
She slipped off from me like a Cadillac eight (Hey Bo Diddley)
Hey Bo Diddley (Hey Bo Diddley)
Hey Bo Diddley (Hey Bo Diddley)
Hey Bo Diddley (Hey Bo Diddley)
Hey Bo Diddley (Hey Bo Diddley)
| Grateful Dead Recordings | |||||
| Date | Album | ||||
| 23 May 1972 | Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead: England '72 (note 1) | ||||
| Jerry Garcia Recordings | |||||
| Date | Album | Recorded By | |||
| studio 1976 | All Good Things (additional disc) | Jerry Garcia Band | |||