Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Jerry Garcia
A pistol shot at five o'clockNotes
The bells of heaven ring
Tell me what you done it for (note a)
No I won't tell you a thing
Yesterday I begged you
Before I hit the ground
All I leave behind me
Is only what I found
If you can abide it
Let the hurdy gurdy play
Stranger ones have come by here
Before they flew away
I will not condemn you
Nor yet would I deny
I would ask the same of you
But failing, will not die
Take up your china doll
It's only fractured
Just a little nervous from the fall
La la la la la la la
| Grateful Dead Recordings | |||||
| Date | Album | ||||
| 2 Apr 1973 | Dave's Picks Volume 21 | ||||
| (studio) 8 Aug 1973 | Wake Of The Flood (note 1) | ||||
| (studio) Apr 1974 | From The Mars Hotel | ||||
| 24 Jun 1973 | Pacific Northwest '73-'74 | ||||
| 8 Sep 1973 | Dave's Picks Volume 38 | ||||
| 29 Oct 1973 | Listen To The River: St Louis '71 '72 73 | ||||
| 9 Nov 1973 | Winterland 1973 - The Complete Recordings | ||||
| 11 Nov 1973 | Winterland 1973 - The Complete Recordings | ||||
| 14 May 1974 | Dave's Picks Volume 9 | ||||
| 17 May 1974 | Pacific Northwest '73-'74 | ||||
| 21 May 1974 | Pacific Northwest '73-'74 | ||||
| 18 Jun 1974 | Road Trips Number 2, Volume 3 | ||||
| 19 Jul 1974 | Dave's Picks Volume 17 (note 3) | ||||
| 23 Jun 1974 | 30 Days Of The Dead (2015) | ||||
| 31 Jul 1974 | Dave's Picks Volume 2 | ||||
| 18 Sep 1974 | 30 Trips Around The Sun | ||||
| 19 Oct 1974 | Grateful Dead Movie (companion CD only) | ||||
| 19 May 1977 | Dick's Picks Vol 29 (note a) | ||||
| 29 Dec 1977 | Dick's Picks Vol 10 | ||||
| 9 Oct 1980 | The Warfield, San Francisco, CA 10/9/80 & 10/10/80 | ||||
| 14 Oct 1980 | Reckoning | ||||
| 23 Oct 1980 | Reckoning (note 2) | ||||
| 30 Nov 1980 | Dave's Picks Volume 8 | ||||
| 10 Mar 1981 | In And Out Of The Garden | ||||
| 31 Aug 1983 | 30 Days Of The Dead (2021) | ||||
| 11 Oct 1983 | In And Out Of The Garden | ||||
| 19 Mar 1990 | Spring 1990 | ||||
| 30 Mar 1990 | Spring 1990 | ||||
| 16 Jun 1990 | View From The Vault III (video/DVD & CD soundtrack) | ||||
| 19 Jul 1990 | Dave's Picks Volume 40 | ||||
| 17 Jun 1991 | Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991 Boxed Set (CD and DVD) | ||||
| 25 Sep 1991 | Dick's Picks Vol 17 | ||||
| 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 | |||
| 1991 | Deadicated | Suzanne Vega | |||
| 1995 | Monday Prayer To Tunkashila | Pat Mallinger | |||
| 1996 | Music Of The Grateful Dead | David Murray Octet | |||
| 1999 | Terrapin | Joe Gallant & Illuminati | |||
| 2000 | Crazy Fingers | The Grass Is Dead | |||
| 2001 | Gratefully Yours | Jim Hudak | |||
| 2001 | Gifts From The Dead | Gifts From The Dead | |||
| 2002 | Electronic Tribute To The Grateful Dead | Various (H-Hustler - remix) | |||
| 2003 | 11th | Purdymouth | |||
| 2005 | Fortune and Death | Radio Free Earth | |||
| 2007 | Dead Symphony | Lee Johnson | |||
| 2008 | The Woodhaven Digest Vol 2 | For Jerz | |||
| 2010 | Portal | Atomic Skunk | |||
| 2010 | Single | Lore Constantine | |||
| 2012 | Beyong Further | Beyind Further | |||
| 2013 | The Tri Sessions, Vol. 1 | Fog | |||
| 2015 | Songs Of Their Own | Billy Iuso festuring Todd Stoops | |||
| 2015 | Dennis' Picks Volume One | Dump | |||
| 2016 | Better Left Unsung | Holly Bowling | |||
| 2018 | Garcia Songbook | Joe Craven & The Sometimers | |||
| 2018 | Dennis' Picks Volume One | Dump | |||
| 2019 | Dead Air | Early Museum Access Project | |||