DurhamNtx's blog: "Music"

A friend sent me the video link below because they know I'm a Deadhead, and it's the best performance I've heard other than the studio version. It's also one of my favorite Dead songs.

Uncle John's Band
from the album Workingman's Dead
written by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia
performed by The Grateful Dead

Well the first days are the hardest days - don't you worry any more,
'Cause when life looks like Easy Street, there is danger at your door
Think this through with me, let me know your mind.
Woh - oh, what I want to know, is are you kind?

It's a buck dancer's choice my friend; better take my advice.
You know all the rules by now and the fire from ice.
Will you come with me, won't you come with me?
Woh - oh, what I want to know, will you come with me?

Goddamn, well I declare, have you seen the like?
Their walls are built of cannonballs, Their motto is Don't tread on me.
Come hear the Uncle John's Band by the riverside
Got some things to talk about, here beside the risin' tide

It's the same story the crow told me
It's the only one he knows
Like the morning sun you come and like the wind you go
Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait
Woh - oh, what I want to know, where does the time go?

I live in a silver mine and I call it Beggar's Tomb
I got me a violin and I beg you call the tune
Anybody's choice, I can hear your voice
Woh - oh, what I want to know, how does the song go?

Come hear the Uncle John's Band by the riverside
Got some things to talk about, here beside the risin' tide
Come hear Uncle John's Band playing to the tide
Come on along, or go alone
He's come to take his children home

Woh - oh, what I want to know, how does the song go?
Come hear Uncle John's Band by the riverside,
Got some things to talk about here beside the risin' tide.
Come hear Uncle John's Band playing to the tide,
come on along or go alone, he's come to take his children home.

Rock on!
Shawn