What I Want to Know Is Are You Kind Garcia

"Ain't no fourth dimension to detest..."

The Annotated "Uncle John'due south Ring"

An installment in TheAnnotated Grateful Dead Lyrics.
Past David Dodd

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Copyright notice

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"Uncle John's Band"
Words past Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; used by permission

Well, the starting time days are the hardest days,
don't you worry anymore
When life looks similar Easy Street
there is danger at your door
Think this through with me
Allow me know your mind
Wo-oah, what I want to know
is are you kind?

Information technology'south a Buck Dancer's Pick, my friend,
better take my communication
You know all the rules by now
and the burn from the ice
Will you come up with me?
Won't you lot come with me?
Wo-oah, what I want to know,
will you come with me?

Goddamn, well I declare
Accept y'all seen the like?
Their walls are built of cannonballs,
their motto is Don't Tread on Me
Come up hear Uncle John's Band
by the riverside
Got some things to talk virtually
hither beside the rising tide

It'southward the same story the crow told me
It's the but one he know -
like the morning sun y'all come up
and like the wind y'all become
Own't no fourth dimension to hate,
barely fourth dimension to wait
Wo-oah, what I want to know,
where does the time go?

I alive in a silvery mine
and I call it Beggar's Tomb
I got me a violin
and I beg you phone call the melody
Anybody's choice
I can hear your voice
Wo-oah what I desire to know,
how does the song go?

Come hear Uncle John'due south Band
by the riverside
Come with me or become alone
He's come to take his children habitation
Come hear Uncle John's Band
playing to the tide
Come on along or go lonely
he's come to take his children home

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"Uncle John'south Band"

Recorded on

• Workingman's Expressionless
• Dick's Picks, vol. 5
• Dozin' at the Knick
• Dick's Picks, vol. 8

Offset recorded performance on December 4, 1969, at the Fillmore West in San Francisco.

Likewise included on the video, Then Far

Covered by

• The IndigoGirls on Deadicated
• Jimmy Buffett on his 1994 album Fruitcakes
• Burn down on the Mountain
• The Stanford Marching Band, as a hidden track on their anthology Mirth Control

Included by Jim Henke, chief curator for the Rock and Scroll Hall of Fame, on his listing of the 500 most influential songs in Rock and Ringlet history.

Blair Jackson, in Golden Road, issue 8 (Autumn, 1985) had this to say:

"The warm feeling of this "Uncle John's" was palpable; in a lot of ways it'south THE SONG, if you know what I mean--the canticle..." (p. 19)

A Grateful Dead cover ring is named after the song.

This note arrived the other twenty-four hour period:

Subject: Uncle John's Band
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:49:07 -0400
From: Jeff Identify

Jeff Identify of Smithsonian/Folkways Records hither. Mike Seeger of the New Lost City Ramblers was just here and we were showing him the spider web. For jollys I did a search on "New Lost City Ramblers" and turned up your Uncle John'due south Band folio. The original NCLR was Seeger, John Cohen and Tom Paley.

Information technology reminded me that once when John Cohen was visiting the function he wondered aloud if Uncle John'south Band might not exist a song almost the NLCR. Evidently Uncle John was a nickname for Cohen. He noticed that lyrics of Uncle John's Band mention a number of their songs. He also remembered Garcia coming to a number of shows past them and the Kentucky Colonels in California in the early on days. He wasn't sure but information technology was something he has wondered nigh. Certainly could be true.

[Notation: Mike Seeger was the recipient of the Rex Foundation'southward 1995 Ralph J. Gleason Award.]

Which in turn brought this response from Hunter:

Subject: 11/4
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 20:42:14 -0500
From: K9Luna@aol.com

David,

I like the management of the discussion on UJB. It'southward right on the coin. I thought I'd give you a piece to the puzzle which is not so obvious; a less direct allusion: compare:

like the morning time sun you come up
and like the wind yous get

with:

Come up all ye off-white and tenders ladies
Be careful how y'all courtroom young men
They're similar the stars on a summer's morning time
First appear and and so they're gone

(NLCR did that one too.)

and while nosotros're at it, they're both what is known equally "come all ye" tunes which is a rich tradition.

Tom Paley was a math teacher at University of Connecticut the yr I was at that place. (I was president of the folk music club). His replacement in the Ramblers, Tracy Schwartz, came to a party at Ellen Cavanaugh's hourse, along with Garcia, Nelson and me, subsequently one of the NLCR shows in 1964 and nosotros played until way early in the morning.

Congratulations on Rosemary!

rh

Thanks, Robert!

Another annotation from a reader:

From: Keven Skelton
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 6:ten AM
Subject area: UJB

David, I was but looking at UJB and noticed the reference to Taj Mahal. Likewise being into TM I idea I'd have a look on All Music Guide for the album mentioned. Looking at the entry, which has no track listing, I noticed that Merl Saunders plays keyboards on the album.

I and so tried the AGM vocal search, which gave 14 entries for the song Buck Dancers Choice. One of these was the Taj Mahal version on a TM compilation album just more interestingly other versions where by Mike Seeger and John Cohen.

The John Cohen version is on an anthology that likewise lists David Grisman equally playing on it and, curiously enough, is titled 'Stories the Crow Told Me'. 1 of the tracks on the record is 'The Story that the Crow told me'. Intrigued, I did an AGM song search on this and found two other entries. One of these is a compilation CD that includes the song, chosen 'Story That the Crow Told Me, Vol. 1: Early American Rural Children'due south, Songs Classic' (the other entry is for the 1930'southward original used on this CD).

So what have I found out? - everything/everyone is linked to each other and that at to the lowest degree these two vocal titles demonstrate John Cohen's earlier comment 'He noticed that lyrics of Uncle John'south Ring mention a number of their [NLCR] songs'.

I wish I had the time to effigy out the rest!

Keven Skelton

An astute member of the WELL Deadlit conference noticed that a manuscript of the handwritten lyrics up for auction along with Garcia'due south guitars back in Apr 2002 included these words:

Why await in the dark for dawn
(while) when the sun'southward even so going down?
Maybe I'll dust off your chair
if you say yous're comin' round
Keep your place in line
all things come in fourth dimension
Whoa-oh,all I demand to know,
(will) do these coals glow?

Would y'all deport me uphill
back the mode I carried you?
Take me further, if you can,
(You know) I'd practice the same for you.
Think this through with me,
let me know your mind,
Whoa-oh all I want to know is,
Will y'all be kind?

Well now - I can hear
The flutter of their wings,
Standin' all the same on our little (non certain most that word) hill
can you hear the sirens sing?

Come hear U.J.B / playing to the tide etc.

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Easy Street

From The Random Business firm Historical Dictionary of American Slang:

"piece of cake street n. a condition of ease and comfort, esp.financial success. ...1897 Hamblen GeneralManager 215: He has arrived at the railroad man's 'easystreet'."

Also the title of a 1917 filmby Charlie Chaplin.

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Buck Dancer's Pick

A buck dancer is 1 who dances the buck-and-wing. From TheDictionary of American Regional English:

"buck-and-wing n, ... Also cadet (dance) ... A lively dance usually performed past i person.
1968 Stearns Jazz Trip the light fantastic 191, The wordWing was used to draw a combination known as Buck and Wing--the general designation for tap dance (and almost anything else) at the plow of the century. Introduced on the New Yorkstage in 1880 past James McIntyre, the Buck and Wing began toswing...and launched a new way of Negro-derived dancing.
1977 Nevell Time to Dance 169sAppalachians, Buck-dancing is the simplest and yet themost enigmatic kind of southern mountain dancing. Essentially, buckdancing is a dance for one but can exist for more than than one; the trip the light fantastic toe itself involves nothing more than moving your anxiety in time to the music. The origins of buckdancing are unclear. The proper noun probably came from the Indians who may take had a ceremonial dance danced by a dauntless costumed every bit a cadet deer."

In The Anthropology of Dance, Anya Royce says:

"At that place existed too a genre that has been labeled "water dances." These, including such named dances equally Set the Floor, Cadet Trip the light fantastic toe, and Juba [cf. line in "Mister Charlie"], all involved a test of skill in balancing a glass of water on the caput while dancing. Juba and Buck dances appeared likewise without the water balancing. ... Emery besides claims a long past for the Pigeon Wing and Cadet Dance: "the Pigeon Fly and the Buck trip the light fantastic toe appear as authentic dances of the Negro on the plantation, much before they were picked upward for the minstrel shows and billedas the Buck and Wing" (1972:90)."

Buck Dancer's Choice (1966, Wesleyan Univ. Press) is also the championship of a volumeof poetry by James Dickey, and, according to Blair Jackson in The Gilt Road, (Winter, 1984), is an one-time white mountain tune.

And this comment from a reader:

Date: Thu, thirteen Apr 95 12:32:eighteen -700
From: David Foyt
Subject: "A Cadet Dancer'due south Pick"

I always thought that a Cadet Dancer signified a stripper, i.east. one who dances for a buck. A "Cadet Dancer's Choice" would be to decide between right and wrong. This is why one should "Take MyAdvice - You should know the rules by at present, the fire from the ice."

Another reader weighs in:

From: pmurphy

Uncle John'south Ring- "Buckdancer's Choice" is too the proper name of a popular fiddle melody of southern Appalachia.

Thanks, Pmurphy!

And withal more readers on this topic:

Date: Sun, seven January 1996 01:39:21 -0500
From: RoyREW@aol.com

A friend of mine at work showed me an quondam album from, I recall 1960?, past Taj Mahal, called "oooh so good 'n blues." On it is a song chosen "Buck Dancers' Choice." On the jacket, in that location is an explanation of the championship, which I Qoute:

"Buck dancers' choice is a tune that goes dorsum to Saturday night dances when the Buck or male dancer got to choose who his partner would be. Sort of the contrary to "Ladies' Choice." While mostly used equally a cord band tune, anyone calling this tune out would be certain to get a positive reaction from all the Does and Bucks."

I hope this helps yous out. I must say that I really savour reading about the songs. If you have any questions about this, you lot can reach me atRoyREW@aol.com

Roy Webb

And this i:

Date: Fri, 05 Jan 96 08:01:19 -0800
From: Randy Lewis
Re: "Cadet Dancer'south Choice"

Every bit well as beingness a dabble tune, this was/is a very pop guitar picker's piece, especially in the early on threescore'south. While I don't call up he ever recorded it, I know that it was in Jerry's repertoire on guitar for sure and also on banjo I believe.

Thank you for doing such a wonderful job, and keep upwards the expert work -as yous probably know, there are lots of fans and Dead Heads here in Kaua`i, and we all try to go along that 60'southward spirit alive and well.

Aloha for now,

Randy Lewis
Kapa`a, Kaua`i, Hawai`i

Yet another slice of the puzzle, from a reader:

-----Original Message----- From: timothy sheehan [mailto:tsheehan@tulane.edu]
Sent: Th, January 16, 2003 2:11 PM
Subject: buck dancer
This is the info. I accept on a prove of a immature Garcia. I saw song six and got to your site to find �Buck Dancers choice� which I knew was in a vocal somewhere.
I saw some other posts about �cadet dancer� and idea id chime in. tim

Sleepy Hollow Pig Stompers
Boar'southward Head Java Business firm
Jewish Community Center
San Carlos, CA
6/11/62

Master Audience (?) Reel (Scotch 150) > playback on Technics RS 1520 @ 7-one/2 ips no dolby > showtime gen reel (Scotch 207 recorded via Otari MX5050 @ 7-i/2 ips no dolby) > playback on Technics RS1506 > Tascam DA-forty DAT > Tascam CD-RW700 master CD > CDs > HP 9350i extraction using EAC > .shn encoding using mkwACT. Source discs from Jay Jurina, extraction and .shn encoding past Joe Jupille. Sector boundary alignment confirmed using shntool.

Single Disc (18) 62:52

--Prepare I--
i. Tuning [0:23]
2. Run Mount [4:l]
3. Billy Grimes The Rover [iii:51]
4. Cannonball Blues [4:06]
5. Devilish Mary [4:05]
6. Cadet Dancer's Choice [two:16]
7. Little Birdie [3:56]
viii. Sally Goodin' [2:32]
9. Concur The Woodpile Down [four:08]
--Set Ii--
ten. Crow Blackness Chicken [4:05]
11. The Johnson Boys [3:57]
12. Shady Grove [5:22]
13. Hop High Ladies [iii:34]
xiv. Sugariness Sunny South [4:28]
fifteen. All Become Hungry Hash Business firm [3:37]
16. Human Of Constant Sorrow (ane) [2:25]
17. Rabbit Chase [iii:00]
18. Three Men Went A-Hunting [2:10]

Notes:

(1) Garcia acapella
Times given are for tracks, non songs.
According to Deadlists, the band consists of Jerry Garcia (guitar and banjo), Marshall Leicester (banjo and guitar), and Dick Arnold (dabble). The operation took place at the 'new' Boar's Head Coffeehouse, relocated in the San Carlos Jewish Community Center. Deadlists also hypothesizes that this is an audience recording, possibly with onstage mics.

Some other note from a reader on the utilise of this line in a movie!

From: Adam Taylor [mailto:ATaylor@langmichener.ca]
Sent: Fri, May 30, 2003 8:03 AM
Subject: Cadet Dancer's Choice

David,
Not sure if you are enlightened simply in the film "CHUD", there is a bizzare reference to "Buck Dancer's Choice", it but comes out of nowhere where in the middle of intense conversation regarding a journalists duty to tell the world about the dangers of radiocative waste, the street preacher character yells out "information technology's a buck dancer'south choice, my friend" on the DVD audio track with the actors commentary information technology is quite hillarious, anyhow if this is the kind of thing you are interested in for your site I tin give you better details, the actors in question are the guy who played i of the bad guys in Abode Alone, Daniel something, and the guy who played the crooked cop in Sopranos season I.
_____________________
Adam Taylor

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fire from the ice

Compare Robert Frost's verse form "Burn and Ice":

"Some say the earth will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I concur with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I retrieve I know plenty of hate
To say that for destruction water ice
Is also great
And would suffice."

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Don't tread on me

From Twelve Flags of the American Revolution, issued to accompanythe exhibition on the bicentennial of American independence by the Library of Congress, 1976:

"THE GADSDEN FLAG: In January 1776 Col. Christopher Gadsden left Philadelphia,where he had served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and a member ofthe Marine Commission, to return to South Carolina. He brought with him to Charleston the flag he had designed for use past the commander in chief of the American Navy, whose vessels were assembled in the frozen Delaware River. His presentation of this flag to the Provincial Congress of S Carolina on February ix, 1776, is recorded in the congressional journals:

Col. Gadsden presented to the Congress an elegant standard, such equally is to be used by the commander in master of the American navy; beingness a yellow field, with a lively representation of a rattle-snake in the middle, in the attitude of going to strike, and these words underneath, "Don't Tread on Me!"

This flag was that day ordered preserved in the hall of the South Carolina Provincial Congress.

And this annotation from the maintainer of a spider web site on American flags:

Engagement: Fri, 12 May 1995 23:36:58 -0500
From: Duane Streufert
Subject: Re: Don't Tread On Me Flag

Dear David,

Eventually I volition accept info on the "Gadsden Flag" on the Page, but for now I'll quote from a volume I have on hand. (This flag is of a xanthous background with a coiled rattlesnake and the words "Don't Tread On Me" beneath it.) Less well known is the 1st Navy Jack, having 13 red and white stripes witha rippling form of a rattlesnake stretched across them, and the words 'Don't Tread On Me' below.

"The American Revolutionary menses was a time of intense simply controlled individualism - when self-directing responsible individuals once again and again decided for themselves what they should do, and did information technology- without needing anyone else to give them an assignment or supervise them in carrying it out.

Such a person was the patriot Colonel Christopher Gadsden of South Carolina. He had seen and liked a bright yellow banner with a hissing, coiled rattlesnake rising up in the center, and beneath the snake thesame words that appeared on the Striped Rattlesnake Flag - Don't Tread On Me.

Colonel Gadsden made a re-create of this flag and submitted the blueprint to the Provincial Congress in South Carolina. Commodore Esek Hopkins, commander of the new Continental fleet, carried a similar flag in February, 1776, whenhis ships put to sea for the offset fourth dimension.

Hopkins captured large stores of British cannon and war machine supplies in the Commonwealth of the bahamas. His cruise marked the salt-water baptism of the American Navy, and it saw the first landing of the Corps of Marines, on whose drums the Gadsden symbol was painted.

Patriotically Yours,
Duane Streufert

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by the riverside

This note from a reader:

Subject: "By the river side" from Uncle John's Band
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 17:09:53 -0700
From: Richard Katz

Hello David,

I accept been having a wonderful time reading your on-line annotations of Grateful Dead songs once over again. I have several associations with 'river side' which I thought I'd share with yous. Rivers, and continuing by a river side are of grade a near universal homo feel. The song Uncle John'southward Band is of grade somewhat a self-reference to the Grateful Dead. Yet it's also nigh community sharing peace, the hope for peace, and a turning abroad from war. And it is an art work the song helps one paint in ones mind - an platonic "Grateful Dead" Band in an ideal concert.

The words "by the riverside" occur but after "Come up hear Uncle John's Band" and thus grade the back drop for the fundamental image of the song. And the whole UJB phrase closely follows the two images of war - the cannon balls and "their motto is 'don't tread on me,'" thus making this a concert whose purpose is nigh peace.

For a concert about peace, the riverside is the ideal setting. The phrase "by the riverside" is one that brings up solace, mourning, reflection, finding of peace, letting go of burdens, laying down of weapons. It is fabricated even more than universal by including the phrase "playing to the tide" - which brings the river that much closer to the body of water, and connecting the experience to the ocean equally well as the river.

• In the folk song "Down by the riverside" where we ain't a gonna study state of war no more.
• The river image is very onetime, in the song By the rivers of Babylon "there we wept as we remembered Zion;" Zion represents a familiar place as opposed to "a strange land," a reference to Abraham, who as stranger in a strange country was the progenitor of Islam as well every bit Judaism.
• In "Shout Halleluja" the "we're heading cross the river, sins wash away in the tide" - in some religious traditions, one casts bread upon the h2o to throw away one's cares - an idea that ties in Robert Hunter's poetic "Ripple" which he wrote non long later Uncle John'due south Band.

The riverside is also a low watery place, for the Grateful Expressionless, a oasis abroad from its opposites at the time - the e'er nowadays Vietnam War and Altamont the dreadful concert where the Dead would non play.

I've included some words today near the song Uncle John's band on Java Skyline to invite people to take solace and condolement in this time of strife and mourning, and I put in a couple references to your annotation Web site.

Meet: Coffee Skyline and on Java Skyline News.

Regards and best wishes,

Richard Katz

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Same story the crow told me

Cf. "The Story the Crow Told Me," in the New Lost City RamblersSong Book, p. 179:

"Caw, caw, 1 picayune story that the crow told me:
Caw, caw, in a hickory tree."

This note from a reader:

From boba@tweety.sna.comMon April 3 08:17:33 1995
Appointment: Mon, 03 April 95 03:39:18 -2400
From: Bob Aldrich
To: ddodd@serf.uccs.edu

I've come up upon your incredible work annotating the Dead'southward songs. Interesting stuff. I have a link to something else you might be interested in. In Uncle John'due south Band, the song talks about the "same story the crow told me..." In 1960, Johnny Horton, a popular singer, did a song chosen "Sink the Bismark" that rose to number iii on the popular charts. The flip side (B side of the single) of the 45 rpm was a vocal chosen "The Same Onetime Tale the Crow Told Me." I had the tape as a kid and the song is a novelty number whose offset verse goes like this (if my retentivity from 35 years agone holds):

A Tom cat was sittin' on a bale of hay
A balderdash canis familiaris was sittin' on the ground
I went and pinched the balderdash dog'due south tail
And they went around and around and around
They went around and around.

It's the aforementioned old tale that the crow told me
Way downwards yonder by the sycamore tree
It's the same old tale that the crow told me
Way down yonder by the sycamore tree

So, not only practice you take an one-time bluegrass number that yous referenced, only this song (which was the flip side of a very popular song in the early on 60s) is also out at that place in the creation. At least information technology came to my heed when I first heard Uncle John'south Ring.

Keep on truckin'

Bob

And this note from a reader:

Subject: Uncle John's Band
Appointment: Sat, sixteen November 1996 21:49:53 -0500
From: jims

Dearest David,

I'm a big expressionless fan and I love the Annotated Grateful Dead web site. Iwas looking at the text of Uncle John's Band and I realized somethingabout the line "It's the same story the crow told me(him?) it's the only ane he knows". This could possible allude to Poe'south "The Raven." In "The Raven" the raven tells the man he will come across Lenore "nevermore". He only knows the one word, "nevermore". The line post-obit it goes "like the morning and dominicus you come and like the wind you go". Birth similar the morn and sunday is predictable merely death like the wind is not. Simply a thought.

Peace
Matt

And this note:

Subject: the same story the crow told me
Date: Thu, xi Nov 1999 01:47:41 -0800
From: Andrea Jean Patten

I accept only just discovered your site recently and I accept plant it to be among the most idea-provoking that I have yet come up beyond.

About the crow: I am familiar with two classical references that refer to crows who tell stories. In the version of Apollodorus, Apollo fell in dear with Coronis, fabricated honey to her and conceived Aesclepius. She, however, preferred Ischys and married him. Apollo learned of her expose from a crow; in his rage, he cursed the crow and turned information technology blackness (the crow had previously been white). In the version of Ovid, it is the raven who delivers this story to Apollo, and he is warned in advance past the crow who has had a similar experience. According to the crow, Minerva hid the child Erichthonius in a breast and delivered it to three girls to spotter over but warned them non to open up information technology. One girl, Aglauros, opens the breast to discover the child lying with a ophidian stretched out abreast him. Having observed Aglauros' expose from an elm tree, the crow immediately informs Minerva, who casts out the crow and adopts the owl as her bird in its place. In concluding, the crow tells the raven, "My punishment should warn all birds, Proceed out of problem, and be silent!"

So much for gossiping birds.

--Andrea Patten

Some other note on this line:

Hi David,

In late 1969 I eagerly awaited the release of Workingman'due south Dead. I had seen the Expressionless several times at that point and this was the first new release of recorded textile since I had go a fan. Of class, as you know, there was no internet, no information on the Dead really at all dorsum and then except in Rolling Stone. I still remember buying the tape, rushing home, fierce the plastic off and placing it on the turntable. Imagine my surprise when "Uncle John's Band" started resonating from the speakers! I had expected some wild psychedelia, stone and roll, and was, at showtime, completely turned off. I was like, "Wtf?" Then, after several listenings, the magic of the songs overwhelmed me - I got it. Anyway, accolades for the site.

I've drifted in and out of the Dead'due south music since I got clean and sober in 1981, but for the past several years it's about the simply stuff I play - mainly their sixty'south and lxx's stuff. And "It'due south the aforementioned story the crow told me" is i of the beginning things I felt I understood from Workingman'south. When I clicked on the line in your Annotated Lyrics, I didn't see anyone published that had my take on it. I e'er took information technology to exist a reference to the crow (who was actually Castenada) in Carlos Castenada'due south book "The Teachings of Don Juan - A Yacqui Way of Knowledge." The book features a crow on the cover. I was a disciple of psychedelics so, reading everything I could on the topic and Castenada's book fascinated me. Castenada traveled around the desert with Don Juan and experimented with peyote, mushrooms and jimson weed in an effort to achieve varying "states of non-ordinary reality." Castaneda said he saw giant insects, learned to fly, grew a beak, became a crow and ultimately reached a plateau of higher consciousness, a hard-won wisdom that made him a "man of knowledge" like Don Juan despite never being able to button past the "fear." In his writings, there are many references to having the courage to push by the "fear" of taking a large dose of psychedelics and gaining insight, or spiritual deliverance, or whatsoever you lot desire to call it. Despite Don Juan'due south best efforts, Castenada never could. I've e'er taken the many fright references in the Dead's music to be Castenadaesque every bit well.

Tom Richards

Pharaoh
The Pyramids
http://brainsturgeon.com

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Like the morning sun yous come, and similar the wind you become

This note from a reader:

Field of study: Uncle John'southward Band
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:13:39 +1300
From: Tom Parsons

I enjoyed your annotated lyrics site, for which many thanks. I was surprised not to find [The Rubaiyat of] Omar Khayyam mentioned as a possible source, or an ur-source:

Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument
About it and most: but evermore
Came out by the aforementioned Door as in I went.

With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow,
And with my own hand labour'd it to grow:
And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd-
I came like H2o, and like Wind I go.

The water and wind references here may be multiple entendres referring to physiology besides as abstractions like unpredictability and spirit. At to the lowest degree I always enjoyed the densely compressed farthermost contrast betwixt the very earthy and the sublime meanings expressed in the aforementioned words.

Tom

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Own't no time to hate

This note from a reader:

Subject: Dickinson in UJB?
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 23:xiv:19 -0600 (CST)
From: "Aaron Bibb, Somewhat Translucent Bead"

[Emily] Dickinson'south #478:

"I had no time to Hate -
Considering
The Grave would hinder Me -
And Life was not so
Ample I
Could finish - Enmity -

Nor had I time to Honey -
But since
Some Manufacture must exist -
The footling Toil of Love -
I idea -
Exist large enough for Me -"

"Ain't no time to hate, barely fourth dimension to await..." peradventure :)

just I digress... constantly.

Aaron Bibb
*** http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stage/4914/ ***

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DeadBase code: [UJB]

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Start posted: March xiv, 1995
Last revised: August 21, 2003

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