Rosemary

Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Jerry Garcia

Recorded on Aoxomoxoa. For a long time it was assumed it had never been been played live. But a tape of a performance on 7 December 1968 has recently come to light.

Boots were of leather, a breath of cologne (note 1)
Her mirror was a window she sat quite alone
All around her the garden grew
Scarlet and purple and crimson and blue

She came and she went and at last went away (note 2)
The garden was sealed when the flowers decayed
On the wall of the garden, a legend did say
"No one may come here, since no one may stay"

Notes
(1) some lyric sites, and the lyrics in the Guitar Superstar Songbook, have "Swath of heaven, a breath of cologne, From here was a window ..." On the only live version, it sounds to me as if Garcia sings "Boots made of leather ..." (but he also seems to have trouble remembering the lyrics later on). The version above is the one from Robert Hunter's "Box Of Rain" (thanks to Pete Lassoff for spotting this)
(2) again, some lyric sites have "She came and she looked ..." The Hunter/Garcia songbook has "She came dead and she went"

Grateful Dead Recordings
	Date	Album
	studio 1969	Aoxomoxoa (note 1)

Other Recordings
	Date	Album	Recorded By
	2001	Gifts From The Dead	Gifts From The Dead
	2005	Jerry Jams, Jerry Cares	Patrick Fitzsimmons
	2015	A Grand Piano Tribute to the Grateful Dead	Rob Catterton
	2016	Day Of The Dead	Mina Tindle & Friends
	2019	Dead Air	Charlottesville Ballet

Notes
(1) also on the compilation Skeletons From The Closet

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 David Dodd's discussion of this song on dead.net see Greatest Stories Ever Told
For online chords and TAB see www.rukind.com
For sheet music, see:
          Grateful Dead (Guitar Superstar Series) (simplified guitar TAB)
          Grateful Dead Anthology For Easy Guitar
          Garcia/Hunter Songbook (vocal line and chords/TAB)