Mountains Of The Moon

Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Jerry Garcia

Cold mountain water, the jade merchant's daughter
Mountains of the moon, Electra, bow and bend to me
Hi-ho, the carrion crow, folderol-de-riddle
Hi-ho, the carrion crow, bow and bend to me

Hey, Tom Banjo
Hey, a laurel
More than laurel you may sow
More than laurel you may sow
Hey, the laurel, hey, the city in the rain
Hey, hey, the wild wheat waving in the wind

Twenty degrees of solitude, twenty degrees in all (note 1)
All the dancing kings and wives assembled in the hall
Lost is the long and loneliest time, fairy Sybil flying (note2)
All along the, all along the mountains of the moon

Hey, Tom Banjo
It's time to matter
The earth will see you on through this time
The earth will see you on through this time
Down by the water, the marsh king's daughter, did you know
Clothed in tatters, always will be, Tom where did you go?

Mountains of the moon, Electra, mountains of the moon
All along the, all along the mountains of the moon
Heigh ho, the carrion crow, folderol-de-riddle
Heigh ho, the carrion crow, bow and bend to me
Bend to me

Notes
(1) Hunter subsequently rewrote this verse, though the Dead never in fact used the new version:

Here is a feast of solitude, a fiddler grim and tall
Plays to dancing kings and wives assembled in the hall
Of lost, long, lonely times fairy Sybil flying
All along the, all along the Mountains of the Moon

(2) Hunter gives this line as "Lost is a long and lonely time." The sheet music has "Lost is the long and loneliest town." On re-listening to the version on Aoxomoxoa, it's clear that Garcia sings "Lost is the long and loneliest time."

Grateful Dead Recordings
	Date	Album
	studio 1969	Aoxomoxoa
	Jan 1969	Playboy After Dark Vol 2 (DVD)
	11 Feb 1969	Fillmore East 2-11-69
	22 Feb 1969	30 Trips Around The Sun
	27 Feb 1969	Fillmore West 1969 -The Complete Recordings
	1 Mar 1969	Fillmore West 1969 - The Complete Recordings
	26 Apr 1969	Dick's Picks Vol 26
	5 Jul 2015	Fare Thee Well (CD and DVD)

(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
	1970s	Ken Frankel's Studio, 1972-1979	Judy Frankel
	1993	Morning Dew	Tom Constanten
	1993	Dead Ringers	Dead Ringers
	22 Jul 1998	The Strange Remain	The Other Ones
	2000	Grateful Dreams	Tom Constanten
	2003	Yuletide	Iditarod
	2004	20 Degrees Of Solitude	The Grass Is Dead
	16 Jun 2004	Mick's Picks, Volume 3	Jefferson Starship
	20 Jun 2004	Live: Morrison, CO	Robert Hunter
	2006	Piano Impressions	Lore Constantine
	2007	Dead Symphony	Lee Johnson
	3 Jul 2009	Tales From the Mothership: Roswell UFO Festival	Jefferson Starship
	2010	State Of Mind	Toni Brown and Ed Munson
	2010	Thief	Keller & The Keels
	17 Jun 2010	Jerry Jams for Rex	Keller & The Keels
	2013	Peace Sequence	Rio en Medio
	20 Apr 2013	Record Store Day Special Release	Neal Casal (7" Vinyl)
	2014	Second Flush	Temple Of L.O.B.
	2014	Grateful Dead Bluegrass Tribute	David Holodiloff
	2015	A Grand Piano Tribute to the Grateful Dead	Rob Catterton
	2016	Songs To Fill The Air (WFMU Pledge Drive)	PG Six
	2016	Day Of The Dead	Lee Ranaldo, Lisa Hannigan & Friends
	2018	The Lookout	Laura Veirs
	2019	Phantom Ships With Phantom Sails	Live Dead '69

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 Anthology Volume 1 (piano arrangement)
          Grateful Dead (Guitar Superstar Series) (simplified guitar TAB)
          Garcia/Hunter Songbook (vocal line and chords/TAB)