Bobby Weir

On Workingman's Dead, posted on August 9, 2014 at 09:04:18
LWR Audiophile Posts: 66808 Location: The woods Joined: August 12, 2003	but here is a live take of it too....It is on the extended version of WD that was in the Golden Road Box Set

And everything else you yearn to know, posted on August 9, 2014 at 09:13:45

LWR
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Dire Wolf

Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Jerry Garcia

Sung by Jerry Garcia on Workingman's Dead and in almost all Grateful Dead live shows. But in at least a couple of the early performances of the song (21 June and 4 July 1969) it was sung by Bob Weir (thanks to Mike Scheier for pointing this out).

In the timbers of Fennario the wolves are running round (note 1)
The winter was so hard and cold, froze ten feet 'neath the ground

Chorus
Don't murder me, I beg of you don't murder me
Please don't murder me

I sat down to supper, 'twas a bottle of red whiskey
I said my prayers and went to bed, that's the last they saw of me
[chorus]

When I awoke, the dire wolf, six hundred pounds of sin
Was grinning at my window, all I said was "Come on in"
[chorus]

The wolf came in, I got my cards, we sat down for a game
I cut my deck to the queen of spades but the cards were all the same (note 2)
[chorus]

In the back-wash of Fennario, the black and bloody mire
The dire wolf collects his due while the boys sing round the fire
[chorus]

Notes
(1) Jerry sometimes sang "In the back-wash of Fennario ..." here - as in the last verse (thanks to Adam Carlitz for pointing this out)
(2) for some reason the Grateful Dead songbooks wrongly have "queen of hearts"

Grateful Dead Recordings
27 Jun 1969 Workingman's Dead (note a)
8 Nov 1969 Dick's Picks Vol 16
12 Dec 1969 Dave's Picks Volume 10
21 Dec 1969 Dave's Picks Volume 6 (Bonus disc)
studio 1970 Workingman's Dead
14 Feb 1970 Dick's Picks Vol 4
2 May 1970 Dick's Picks Vol 8
15 May 1970 Road Trips Vol 3 No 3 (late show)
16 Apr 1972 Europe '72 - The Complete Recordings
26 Apr 1972 Europe '72: Vol. 2 (note c)
24 May 1972 Europe '72 - The Complete Recordings
26 May 1972 Europe '72 - The Complete Recordings
21 Nov 1973 Road Trips Volume 4, Number 3
30 Nov 1973 Dick's Picks Vol 14
5 Nov 1977 Dick's Picks Vol 34
26 Dec 1979 Dick's Picks Vol 5
11 Oct 1980 Reckoning (note b)
6 May 1981 Dick's Picks Vol 13
7 May 1981 The Tomorrow Show (DVD)
2 Apr 1989 Download Series Vol 9
30 Mar 1990 Spring 1990
25 Sep 1991 Dick's Picks Vol 17
27 May 1993 Road Trips Vol 2, No 4

[Expand] Recordings from dead.net Tapers Section

[Expand] Ratdoglive CDs and downloads

[Expand] Phil Lesh and Friends Digital Download Series

[Expand] Furthur Digital Downloads and CDs

[Expand] Robert Hunter Concert Recordings

Other Recordings
Date Album Recorded By
3 Jun 1984 Best Of Jerry Garcia Jerry Garcia and John Kahn
28 Feb 1986 Pure Jerry: Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium Jerry Garcia/John Kahn
Aug 1993 Live In Japan New Riders Of The Purple Sage
1994 Relix Magazine 20th Anniversary Concert Dead Ringers
2000 Dead Grass Vassar Clements
2000 Pickin' On The Grateful Dead Vol 2 David West et al
2002 The Road To California The Cyrus Clarke Expedition
2003 Snake Oil Stiff Dead Cat
2003 IIth Purdymouth
2005 Innocence Shouting Thomas!
Notes
(a) included as a bonus track on remastered album, first released as part of the box set The Golden Road (1965-1973)
(b) also on the compilation The Arista Years
(c) also on the box set Europe '72 - The Complete Recordings

RE: On Workingman's Dead, posted on August 9, 2014 at 11:09:03
fantja Audiophile Posts: 15524 Location: Alabama Joined: September 11, 2010	YOU are the man! Thank You.

RE: And everything else you yearn to know, posted on August 9, 2014 at 11:25:39
fantja Audiophile Posts: 15524 Location: Alabama Joined: September 11, 2010	Very, very informative LWR. The version in question was playing on the GD channel (XM radio). The version was a little too rough to be a studio version, yet, the info did not say which concert (like it usually does). Being a big Jazz head, I was struck by the drummer swinging in such a never before heard style.

And on that live one I posted, posted on August 9, 2014 at 11:43:38
LWR Audiophile Posts: 66808 Location: The woods Joined: August 12, 2003	that is Mr. Garcia on his pedal steel which I always enjoyed him playing...

RE: And on that live one I posted, posted on August 9, 2014 at 17:06:38
fantja Audiophile Posts: 15524 Location: Alabama Joined: September 11, 2010	Thank You!

When it comes to all things GD..., posted on August 10, 2014 at 07:45:01
rlw Audiophile Posts: 3347 Location: Near West Palm Bch, FL Joined: August 29, 2006	Larry is, indeed, the man! After all, how many have had the GD as the house band for their wedding??? PS: AND Crosby, Stills, and Nash! -RW-

Let me clarify that, posted on August 10, 2014 at 08:09:10

LWR
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My hippy wedding CSN&Y played, as did most of Moby Grape and some of the Black Shit Puppy Farm and Timbercreek. It went on for 3 days in a redwood forest atop Skyline Blvd, a place called Medway Forest.
Later in life when I married the woman who would mother our child Kingfish played and new wife tossed Weir into the swimming pool.
But way before all that the Dead did play at my house in Loma Mar and no, I do not have the set list!

RE: Let me clarify that, posted on August 10, 2014 at 15:09:44
fantja Audiophile Posts: 15524 Location: Alabama Joined: September 11, 2010	you should write a book LWR.

Rocky Road

Bobby Weir

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