Lyrics: Scott/Malone
Music: Scott/Malone
Without a warning, you broke my heart
Taken it baby, tore it apart
And you left me standing, in the dark, cryin' (note 1)
Said your love for me was dyin'
So come on baby, baby please
I'm begging you baby, I'm on my knees
Turn on your light, let it shine on me
Turn on your love light, let it shine on me
Let it shine, let it shine, let it ...
Well I get a little lonely in the middle of the night
And I need you darling to make things all right
So come on baby, baby please
And I'm begging you baby, 'cause I'm on my knees
Turn on your light, let it shine on me
Turn on your love light, let it shine on me
Let it shine, let it shine, let it ...
Without a warning, you broke my heart
Taken it baby, torn it apart
And you left me standing, in the dark, cryin'
Said your love for me was dyin'
So come on baby, baby please
I'm begging you baby, I'm on my knees
Turn on your light, let it shine on me
Turn on your love light, let it shine on me
Let it shine, let it shine, let it ...
Well I get a little lonely in the middle of the night
And I need you baby to make things all right
So come on baby, baby please
And I'm begging you baby, 'cause I'm on my knees
Turn on your light, let it shine on me
Turn on your love light, let it shine on me
[starts getting more ad-lib from here: this is the Live/Dead version:]
Let it shine on me, let it shine on me
Let it shine on me, let it shine on me
Why don't you let it, shine on me
Why don't you let it baby, shine on me
Early in the morning, let it shine on me
Late in the evening, let it shine on me too
Well that's all I need, I just got to get some
That's all I need, I just got to get some
I just got to, I just to
Get a little more, yes I do
And I don't want it all, I just want a little bit
I don't want it all, no no no no, I just want a little bit
A little of your lovin', a little of your kissin'
A little of your rollin', that's all I want
Baby please, baby please
Baby please, baby please
Just like a stringray, on a four day ride
Now wait a minute, I wanna to tell you about my baby
I wanna tell you how come she make me feel so good
Yes she do, yes she do
I know she make me feel all right, yes she do
She's got box-back nitties (note 3)
And great big noble thighs (note 2)
Working undercover with a boar hog's eye
[etc - including, famously]
Take your hands out of your pockets and turn on your lovelight
Grateful Dead Recordings | |||||
Date | Album | ||||
22 Oct 1967 | Anthem Of The Sun (2018 bonus disc) | ||||
23 Jan 1968 | Road Trips Volume 2, Number 2 (bonus disc) | ||||
14 Feb 1968 | Road Trips Volume 2, Number 2 | ||||
23 Feb 1968 | Dick's Picks Vol 22 | ||||
17 Mar 1968 | Download Series Vol 6 | ||||
24 Aug 1968 | Two From The Vault | ||||
20 Oct 1968 | 30 Trips Around The Sun | ||||
26 Jan 1969 | Live/Dead (note a) | ||||
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 | ||||
28 Feb 1969 | Fillmore West 1969 - The Complete Recordings | ||||
1 Mar 1969 | Fillmore West 1969 - The Complete Recordings | ||||
2 Mar 1969 | Fillmore West 1969 - The Complete Recordings | ||||
17 Apr 1969 | Download Series Vol 12 | ||||
27 Apr 1969 | Dick's Picks Vol 26 | ||||
23 May 1969 | Road Trips Volume 4, Number 1 | ||||
24 May 1969 | Road Trips Volume 4, Number 1 | ||||
16 Aug 1969 | Woodstock - Back To The Garden | ||||
7 Nov 1969 | Dick's Picks Vol 16 | ||||
12 Dec 1969 | Dave's Picks Volume 10 | ||||
20 Dec 1969 | Dave's Picks Volume 6 | ||||
26 Dec 1969 | Dave's Picks Volume 43 | ||||
2 Jan 1970 | Dave's Picks Volume 30 | ||||
18 Jan 1970 | Download Series Vol 2 | ||||
23 Jan 1970/TD> | Dave's Picks Volume 19 | ||||
2 Feb 1970 | Dave's Picks Volume 6 | ||||
13 Feb 1970 | Dick's Picks Vol 4 | ||||
15 Apr 1970 | 30 Trips Around The Sun | ||||
14 May 1970 | Road Trips Vol 3 No 3 | ||||
15 May 1970 | Road Trips Vol 3 No 3 (late show) | ||||
27 Apr 1971 | Ladies And Gentlemen ... The Grateful Dead | ||||
30 May 1971 | Winterland 1971 | ||||
4 Aug 1971 | Road Trips Number 1, Volume 3 (bonus disc) | ||||
6 Aug 1971 | Dick's Picks Vol 35 | ||||
26 Apr 1972 | Hundred Year's Hall (note c) | ||||
7 May 1972 | Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead: England '72 (note c) | ||||
24 May 1972 | Rockin' The Rhein (note c) | ||||
2 Apr 1989 | Download Series Vol 9 | ||||
7 Jul 1989 | Crimson, White and Indigo (DVD & CD) | ||||
12 Jul 1989 | RFK Stadium 1989 Box | ||||
14 Mar 1990 | Spring 1990 (The Other One) | ||||
21 Mar 1990 | Spring 1990 (The Other One) | ||||
29 Mar 1990 | Wake Up To Find Out (note d) | ||||
8 Jul 1990 | View From The Vault (video/DVD & CD soundtrack) | ||||
20 Sep 1990 | Road Trips Number 2, Volume 1 | ||||
14 Jun 1991 | View From The Vault II (video/DVD & CD soundtrack) | ||||
10 Sep 1991 | 30 Trips Around The Sun | ||||
20 Mar 1992 | 30 Trips Around The Sun | ||||
Non-official releases | |||||
30 Oct 1968 | Hartbits (Mickey & The Hartbeats) (note b) | ||||
7 Jun 1969 | Best Of San Francisco Live (with Janis Joplin) | ||||
Phil Lesh and Friends Recordings | |||||
18 May 2006 | Live At The Warfield | ||||
Other Dead-related recordings | |||||
Date | Album | Recorded By | |||
1999 | Grateful Dreams | Tom Constanten | |||
26 Apr 2001 | Live At The Roseland | Ratdog | |||
Tribute albums | |||||
Date | Album | Recorded By | |||
1997 | Fire On The Mountain | Reggae Celebrates The Grateful Dead Vol 2 (by "Toots") | |||
2001 | Blues Tribute To The Grateful Dead | Langhorne Slim | |||
2019 | Phantom Ships With Phantom Sails | Live Dead '69 |
"He (Pigpen) loved Lord Buckley, and W.C. Fields was another of his faves. But I don't see that influence much in the music; more in him as a guy. I have no idea where he picked up most of that stuff (in the music). Some of it was bits and pieces of lyrics from old tunes that he'd pick up and then he'd extrapolate. But, like, I have no idea where he got that thing he used to sing (during "Lovelight"): 'She got box back nitties and great big noble thighs, working undercover with a boar hog's eye.' Don't ask me--I don't know what the fuck that's all about! It's some weird mojo shit or something. But he could always pull that stuff out. He could do that as long as I knew him. When he was on, he was amazing."The following post explains a bit more:
"Box back nitties are those long flannel underwear with the flap in the back for, well, you know :) For an example, see Michael Landon in Little House On The Prairie."The following post from Rand Hutcheson explains more about "boar hog's eye":
"A search for that phrase on Google doesn't turn up much, but it does turn up a review of a Kate Lissauer disk, and the review has some discussion of the phrase "boar hog's eye." The only helpful bit is a quotation from Lissauer herself, who notes that "I got a girl, she's got something like a boar hog's eye is a standard blues line. The remainder of the discussion, quoting sources going back to 1910 is, it seems to me, wrong, and the suggestion that "hog's eye" equals "hoagie" (a term they still use in Philadelphia for a sandwich on French bread) and is a metaphorical term for "penis" is badly wrong ("I got a girl, she got a penis"? What!?).Here are couple of examples of "boar hog's eye" in old blues songs - with a lot of similarities to what Pigpen sings:
"The correct solution is just the reverse. The use of the word eye to refer to the female pudendum is ancient. There is a riddle in the Exeter Book, a 10th-century Anglo-Saxon poetic codex, which I translate thus:Riddle 25"The answer to the riddle is "an onion," but with an obvious double entendre, which is carried through in the final sentence to the corresponding body part of the woman who grips it and confines it in a tight place.
"I am a wondrous thing, a comfort to women, helpful to neighbors; I harm no city-dwellers, except my killer alone. My stem is stiff, I stand in bed, and am hairy down below. Sometimes a pretty free-mans daughter dares, stout-hearted maid, to get a grip on me, rushes upon me in my redness, ravages my head, confines me in a tight place. She will soon feel my encounter, she who forced me in, woman with braided locks. Wet will be her eye!"
"Probably the best known example of this use of the word eye occurs in Chaucer's Miller's tale, where the poet, summing up the story, says:"And Absolon hath kissed her nether eye""So there is a well-established tradition in English for eye="female pudendum." As for a boar-hog's eye, I'm not particularly familiar with boar's eyes, so I can't say whether they have some special feature that makes them particularly appropriate in this context, other than that they are, well . . . hairy. "
Texas Alexander: "Bo' Hog Blues"There's a full discussion of the origins and background of these lines here
She got little bitty legs, gee, but below her thighs
She got little bitty legs, gee, but below her thighs
She got something on-a-yonder works like a bo' hog's eye
Geeshie Wiley: "Skinny Leg Blues"
I got little bitty legs, keep up these noble thighs
I got little bitty legs, keep up these noble thighs
Ah, gee, but below those thighs
I got something underneath and it works like a bo' hog's eye