Lyrics: Pigpen (Ron McKernan)
Music: Pigpen (Ron McKernan)
A recording from an unlabeled reel from 1966 (probably from the Watts Acid Test on February 12th). It sounds as if the Dead are
setting up, testing microphones etc. This Pigpen rap comes just before his rap that follows someone's
suggestion that they play New Orleans
Someone
Nobody cares
(weird noises)
Bob Weir
Who's responsible for getting all this recorded?
Just checking up on you
Here you can talk to anybody
It's just a little bit less loud
Someone
Freak freely
Bob Weir
From what I hear this was quite a bit louder
Then if you back off
Pigpen
I want to tell you a little story now
Bob Weir
Just a sort of a
Pigpen
Everything's gonna be all right now
I want to know, do you feel good, yeah
I want to know, can you find your man
If you can, you better get on out of this place
I want to tell everybody a little story right now
Bob Weir
I was gonna give you this
Someone
Who cares, who cares
It's OK, it's OK
Just easier to do it over a microphone than any place else
Pigpen
But do you understand about it, no
Well if you don't understand, you better listen to what I got to say right now
'Cause if you don't, if you don't there's something wrong with you
I'm gonna tell everybody in the house right now
A little thing, a little thing that you got to do one more time
You got to think about your neighbour
You got to think about your friend
You got to think about your brother
You got to think about your sister
You got to think about everybody that means something to you
I'm talking about it now
Now do you think that you know something
If you think that you know something
God damn it what's wrong with you
Get that microphone away from me God damn it or I'll fix you righteously
You know, before I got interrupted by that, now
I was trying to say
Bob Weir
Oh so rudely interrupted
Pigpen
I was trying to talk a little bit
I was trying to say something to all you people's standing around here
And my main point, I been this tonight, is
That you got to love everybody
Yeah, you got to love everybody
Now you know, you been walking down the street one day
You know somebody may come up to you and point a pistol at your head and say give me all your money
Now if you have any sense you know you're gonna give him your money
Now you ain't got no business to hate that man for doing that 'cause you know there must be something wrong with him
I want to tell you about it one time again
I'm telling about it, yeah
I want everybody to say 'yeah' [yeah]
Yeah - come on, try it in unison [yeah]
I want everybody to say 'yeah' [yeah]
Everybody say 'yeah' [yeah]
Whaaa, yeah [yeah]
Who, right [yeah]
Now I want to know
I want to know do you all know what I'm talking about now
I'm talking about somebody who loves a little bit of love
Somebody who loves a little bit of friendship
I want to know, do you know what I'm talking about now
Do you know what I'm talking about now [yeah]
Yeah I wanna know [yeah]
I wanna know [yeah]
I wanna know [yeah]
I wanna know [yeah]
I think maybe you're hearing what I'm saying
Bob Weir
Someday Ron'll take acid