Well, everybody’s dancin’ in a ring around the sun. Nobody’s finished; we ain’t even begun. So take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat. Try on your wings and find our where it’s at.
-Grateful Dead, The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)

Hey, hey, hey, come right away! Come and join the party every day!
-Grateful Dead, The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)

Well, this job I’ve got is just a little too hard. Running out of money, Lord, I need more pay. Gonna wake up in the morning, Lord, gonna pack my bags. I’m gonna beat it on down the line.
-Grateful Dead, Beat It On Down The Line

I want to be your chauffeur. I want to ride your little machine. I want to put a tiger, baby, hey, in your sweet little tank!
-Grateful Dead, Good Morning, Little School Girl

I worked all summer, spring, and fall. Blonde haired woman the cause of it all. Now she’s gone, gone, gone and I don’t worry ’cause I’m sitting on top of the world!
-Grateful Dead, Sittin’ On Top Of The World

Many a man’s done a terrible thing just to get baby, that shiny diamond ring.
-Grateful Dead, Dupree’s Diamond Blues

Without a warning you broke my heart, takin’ it, baby, tore it apart. And you left me standin’ in the dark, said your love for me was dyin’…
-Grateful Dead, Turn On Your Love Light

Come on, baby, baby please come on, baby, cause I’m on my knees. Turn on your lights, let it shine on me. Shine on your love light. Let it shine on me, let shine, let it shine, let it shine…
-Grateful Dead, Turn On Your Love Light

I said death don’t have no mercy in this land. Death will leave you standing and crying in this land.
-Grateful Dead, Death Don’t Have No Mercy

Lay down, my dear brother, lay down and take your rest. Won’t you lay your head upon your savior’s chest? I love you all, but Jesus loves you the best. And we bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight.
-Grateful Dead, And We Bid You Goodnight

Nothing’s for certain. It could always go wrong. Come in when it’s raining, go on out when it’s gone. We could have us a high time living the good life. Well, I know…
-Grateful Dead, High Time

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.
-Grateful Dead, Uncle John’s Band

One way or another this darkness got to give.
-Grateful Dead, New Speedway Boogie

People may know but the people don’t care that a man could be as poor as me…
-Grateful Dead, Black Peter

I been balling a shiny black steel jack-hammer, been chippin’ up rocks for the great highway. Live five years if I take my time, ballin’ that jack and a drinkin’ my wine.
-Grateful Dead, Easy Wind

Gotta find a woman. Be good to me. Won’t hide my liquor, try to serve me tea. ‘Cause I’m a stone jack baller and my heart is true. And I’ll give everything that I got to you, yes I will.
-Grateful Dead, Easy Wind

She’s got everything delightful. She’s got everything I need. Takes the wheel when I’m seeing double, pays my ticket when I speed.
-Grateful Dead, Sugar Magnolia

Got a wife in Chino, babe, and one in Cherokee. The first one says she’s got my child, but it don’t look like me.
-Grateful Dead, Friend Of The Devil

Till the morning comes, it’ll do you fine. Till the morning comes, like a highway sign, showing you the way- leaving no doubt of the way on in or the way back out.
-Grateful Dead, Till The Morning Comes

Tell you what I’ll do. I’ll watch out for you. You’re my woman now. Make yourself easy.
-Grateful Dead, Till The Morning Comes

There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night. And if you go no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone.
-Grateful Dead, Ripple

You, who choose to lead, must follow. But if you fall you fall alone. If you should stand then who’s to guide you? If I knew the way I would take you home.
-Grateful Dead, Ripple

Fare you well, my honey. Fare you well, my only true one. All the birds that were singing have flown except you. alone
-Grateful Dead, Brokedown Palace

Goin’ home, goin’ home. By the waterside I will rest my bones. Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
-Grateful Dead, Brokedown Palace

I have spent my life seeking all that’s still unsung. Bent my ear to hear the tune and closed my eyes to see. When there were no strings to play, you played to me.
-Grateful Dead, Attics Of My Life

Most of the cats that you meet on the street speak of true love. Most of the time they’re sitting and crying at home. One of these days they know they gotta get going out of the door and into the street all alone.
-Grateful Dead, Truckin’

Truckin’, I’m a going home, whoa, whoa, baby, back where I belong. Back home, sit down and patch my bones and get back truckin’ on!
-Grateful Dead, Truckin’