Contents
EPIGRAPH
FOREWORD BY ROBERT HUNTER
PREFACE BY ALAN TRIST
INTRODUCTION BY DAVID DODD
The Lyrics 1965–1995
(Songs are listed by date of first performance or, if never in the live repertoire, by date of studio recording, whichever comes first. An alphabetical list of songs is included in the index.)
1965
Can’t Come Down
Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)
Mindbender
The Only Time Is Now
1966
Cold Rain and Snow
I Know You Rider
You See a Broken Heart
Beat It On Down the Line
You Don’t Have to Ask
Cream Puff War
Tastebud
New, New Minglewood Blues
Don’t Ease Me In
Cardboard Cowboy
Standing on the Corner
Keep Rolling By
Alice D Millionaire
Me and My Uncle
1967
Morning Dew
New Potato Caboose
The Golden Road (to Unlimited Devotion)
Alligator
Turn on Your Love Light
That’s It for the Other One (Suite)
Born Cross-eyed
Dark Star
1968
Clementine
China Cat Sunflower
The Eleven
And We Bid You Goodnight
Saint Stephen
Not Fade Away
Cosmic Charlie
Rosemary
1969
Dupree’s Diamond Blues
Mountains of the Moon
Doin’ That Rag
Dire Wolf
Casey Jones
What’s Become of the Baby?
High Time
Easy Wind
Cumberland Blues
Black Peter
Uncle John’s Band
Mason’s Children
New Speedway Boogie
1970
Friend of the Devil
Candyman
Attics of My Life
Sugar Magnolia / Sunshine Daydream
To Lay Me Down
Brokedown Palace
Operator
Ripple
Truckin’
Till the Morning Comes
Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad
Box of Rain
1971
Bertha
Greatest Story Ever Told
Loser
Playing in the Band
Wharf Rat
Bird Song
Deal
Mister Charlie
Sugaree
Brown-eyed Women
Empty Pages
Tennessee Jed
Jack Straw
Mexicali Blues
Comes a Time
One More Saturday Night
Ramble on Rose
Chinatown Shuffle
1972
Black-Throated Wind
Looks Like Rain
The Stranger (Two Souls in Communion)
He’s Gone
Stella Blue
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo
1973
China Doll
Eyes of the World
Here Comes Sunshine
Loose Lucy
They Love Each Other
Row Jimmy
Weather Report Suite, Part 1
Weather Report Suite, Part 2 (Let It Grow)
Let Me Sing Your Blues Away
Peggy-O
1974
U.S. Blues
It Must Have Been the Roses
Ship of Fools
Cassidy
Scarlet Begonias
Money, Money
Pride of Cucamonga
Unbroken Chain
1975
Blues for Allah
Crazy Fingers
Help on the Way
Franklin’s Tower
Showboat
The Music Never Stopped
1976
Lazy Lightnin’ / Supplication
Might As Well
Samson and Delilah
The Wheel
Mission in the Rain
1977
Terrapin Station (Suite)
Estimated Prophet
Fire on the Mountain
Sunrise
Iko Iko
Passenger
Equinox
1978
I Need a Miracle
Stagger Lee
If I Had the World to Give
From the Heart of Me
Shakedown Street
France
1979
Althea
Lost Sailor
Easy to Love You
Saint of Circumstance
Alabama Getaway
1980
Far From Me
Feel Like a Stranger
1981
Never Trust a Woman
1982
Keep Your Day Job
West L.A. Fadeaway
Touch of Grey
Throwing Stones
1983
My Brother Esau
Maybe You Know
Little Star
Hell in a Bucket
1984
Don’t Need Love
Tons of Steel
1985
Revolutionary Hamstrung Blues
Black Muddy River
When Push Comes to Shove
1988
Victim or the Crime
Foolish Heart
Blow Away
I Will Take You Home
Believe It Or Not
Gentlemen, Start Your Engines
Built to Last
1989
Standing on the Moon
We Can Run But We Can’t Hide
Just a Little Light
Picasso Moon
1991
Reuben and Cérise
1992
So Many Roads
Wave to the Wind
Corrina
Way to Go Home
1993
Eternity
Lazy River Road
Liberty
Days Between
Easy Answers
1994
Samba in the Rain
If the Shoe Fits
Childhood’s End
Coda: Original Songs Played by The Dead
All That We Are
A Little Piece for You
Night of a Thousand Stars
No More Do I
Strange World
The Banyan Tree
Only the Strange Remain
October Queen
Even So
Baba Jingo
Self-defense
Time Never Ends
You Remind Me
Down the Road
NOTES ON THE INSTRUMENTALS
AFTERWORD BY JOHN BARLOW
THE LYRICISTS
PHOTOGRAPHS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT DAVID DODD AND JIM CARPENTER
CREDITS AND PERMISSIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GENERAL INDEX
INDEX OF SONGS