Grateful Dead - The Music Never Stopped
There’s mosquitoes on the river.
Fish are rising up like birds.
It’s been hot for seven weeks now,
Too hot to even speak now.
Did you hear what I just heard?
Say, it might have been a fiddle,
Or it could have been the wind.
But there seems to be a beat, now.
I can feel it in my feet, now.
Listen, here it comes again!
There’s a band out on the highway.
They’re high-steppin’ into town.
They’re a rainbow full of sound.
It’s fireworks, calliopes and clowns –
Everybody’s dancing.
Come on, children. Come on, children,
Come on clap your hands.
Sun went down in honey.
Moon came up in wine.
Stars were spinnin’ dizzy,
Lord, the band kept us so busy
We forgot about the time.
They’re a band beyond description
Like Jehovah’s favorite choir.
People joinin’ hand in hand
While the music plays the band.
Lord, they’re setting us on fire.
Crazy rooster crowin’ midnight.
Balls of lightning roll along.
Old men sing about their dreams.
Women laugh and children scream,
And the band keeps playin’ on.
Keep on dancin’ through to daylight.
Greet the morning air with song.
No one’s noticed, but the band’s all packed and gone.
Was it ever here at all?
But they keep on dancing.
C’mon, children. C’mon, children,
Come on clap your hands.
Well, the cool breeze came on Tuesday,
And the corn’s a bumper crop.
The fields are full of dancing,
Full of singing and romancing,
'Cause the music never stopped.
Jerry Garcia Band - Reuben and Cerise
Cerise was brushing her long hair gently down
It was the afternoon of carnival
as she brushes it gently down
Reuben was strumming the painted mandolin
It was inlaid with a pretty face in jade
Played the Carnival Parade
Cerise was dressing as Pirouette in white
when a fatal vision gripped her tight
Cerise beware tonight
Reuben, Reuben tell me truly true
I feel afraid and I don’t know why I do
Is there another girl for you?
If you could see in my heart
you would know it’s true
there is none Cerise except for you
except for you
I swear to it on my very soul
If I lie may I fall down cold
When Reuben played the painted mandolin
the breeze would stop to listen in
before going its way again
Masquerade began when nightfall finally woke
Like waves against the bandstand dancers broke
to the painted mandolin
Looking out on the crowd, who is standing there?
Sweet Ruby Claire at Reuben stared
At Reuben stared
She was dressed as Pirouette in red
and her hair hung gently down
The crowd pressed round
Ruby stood as though alone
Reuben’s song took on a different tone
and he played it just for her
The song he played was the Carnival Parade
Each note cut a thread of Cerise’s fate
It cut through like a blade
Reuben was playing the painted mandolin
When Ruby froze and turned to stone
for the strings played all alone
The voice of Cerise from the face of the mandolin
singing: Reuben, Reuben tell me true
for I have no one but you
If you could see in my heart
you would know it’s true
There is none Cerise, except for you -except for you
I swear to it on my very soul
If I lie, may I fall down cold
The truth of love
an unsung song must tell
The course of love must follow blind
without a look behind
Rubin walked through the streets
of New Orleans 'till dawn,
Cerise so lightly in his arms
and her hair hung gently down
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