Prelude/Tuesday Night Jam

[Kreutzmann]
Hey, Phil, come out here and play some rhythm instruments

[Jam -"Whatever It Is" on the tracking notes]

[Hunter declaiming - "Titled Variously" on the tracking notes]
Titled variously. Is this vermouth or just a loose tooth?
It's hard to synthesise without explaining

Someone had a name for it. We forgot to ask him
And now he hardly comes around. That's fine anyway
The only foot to step off is the right
And the only way to sew is with the needle

[Hunter speak-singing - titled "The Point" on tracking notes]
Black James. Six a.m. rising. No need to call your own
I call a [castle?] for you. Every time and inside anyway
Four, door, leads in ten directions
You chart, three bars, what it's worth is anybody's guess
Outside, anyway, there's one less car to bother parking
Jelly Red, wait outside, the [toilet?] hasn't come yet
Anyway, come what may, we've seen the last reason
Then in anyway it screws

The point is never quite what you arrive at
[Hunter joined by Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and Donna Keith Godchaux]
The point is never quite what you arrive at
The point is never quite what you arrive at
The point is never quite what you arrive at
The point is never quite what you arrive at
[etc]
[Keith Godchaux]
Give me one good answer to the question that I raise
What's the point of standing with both feet in the rain
When [life] is hard and [brutal], cough and laugh and stare
Maybe someday you come down to exactly where I am

Well get yourself on a big white horse
Ride yourself right into the sunset
Get yourself on a big fat [blue]
Talk about what you mean to say

Get upon a Southport steamer
Take it all the way to Arkansas
The [?] come through, and nothing left to do
You send yourself a letter, see all [?]

[Jam - "Floating Down" on the tracking notes begins here]

[Donna]
Lost in one last dream
Look down one last dream

[plus Keith and Robert Hunter]
Floating down one last dream
Lost in one last dream
Lost in one last dream
Floating down one last dream

[Gone along] one last dream
Shore away
Gone to the far
To the far shore
Gone away to the far shore, away

[Drums/Space]

[Keith and Donna - titled "Gone To The River"]
When I went to the river to see
What I saw was all I see
Face in the river looking back at me
What I saw was all I see

[Weir leads]
Every time I turn around to see
I see my face looking back at me
[Keith Godchaux leads]
Every time I turn around
I see it all back on the ground

When I went to the river to see
All I saw was what I [mean]
Face of the desert looking at me
What I saw is all I see

[Hunter]
All that I saw
Every time I turned to see
I see my own face looking back

[Almost inaudible background chatter (chiefly Phil) while jam continues]
Let's just forget it ... [?] material [?] ...
Supremely strange ... Check out the guitar, bass ...
This'll be a [two-time] [?] ... We got to ...
Recording every single ... Maybe we should ...

[Keith and Donna - "Sweet Inspiration"]
I need your sweet inspiration
I need you here on my mind every hour of the day
I need your sweet inspiration
To keep on living, to keep on giving this way

[Bob Weir - "Jezebel"]
Way back yonder in the olden days
John told Jezebel to bar her ways
He said her evil deeds done ruined the land
And repent for the kingdom of God was at hand

She got mad at John 'cause he told her 'bout the gospel
She told her servants to boil him in oil
They tell me God looked from his window in heaven
Spoke one word and the oil wouldn't boil

He raised his hands, creation trembled
Stomped his feet and time stood still
Raised his voice, looked down and thundered
John, go do my will

[Donna - unknown song]
When I was [in favour]
I started [?] extent
From one into the other
I crossed this favoured land

When I was in darkness
The shadows fell upon
The mountain and the valley
Where I did look upon

When I was in power
In power it can be
Well I never slept at all
For the things I could foresee

[Short jam - "Last Blast"]

[spoken]
Yeah, let me move the speaker

[Hunter]
It's all over
Stop the tape
We're done
That's it