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1. "History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice)", released in 1973, was the Grateful Dead's ninth album and fourth live album. It includes this song sung by Bob Weir with the following lyrics. Can you name the song? (Hint: It also appears on the 1981 live album "Reckoning".)
"So blow your whistle freight train
Take me far on down the track
I'm going away, I'm leaving today
I'm going but I ain't coming back"
2. Another number from "Bear's Choice", this was originally a song recorded by Otis Redding and released posthumously. Sung by "Pigpen" McKernan, which song contains the following lyrics? (Hint: The cover of this song by The Black Crowes is probably the most famous.)
"Baby here I am and I'm a man upon the scene
I can give you what you want but you got to come home with me
I got a whole lot of good old loving and I got some in store
When I get through throwin' it on to you got to come back for more"
3. The Grateful Dead's tenth album, and second of 1973, "Wake of the Flood", includes one of my favorites from the early-to-mid seventies. Can you name it from the lyrics provided?
"Wake now, discover that you
Are the song that the morning brings
But the heart has its seasons
Its evenings and songs of its own"
4. "Wake of the Flood" also contained this popular number. Can you guess it from the lyrics below?
"If all you got to live for
Is what you left behind
Get yourself a powder charge
And seal that silver mine
I lost my boots in transit babe
A pile of smoking leather
Nailed a retread to my feet
And prayed for better weather"
5. The Grateful Dead's eleventh album was released in the summer of 1974 and dubbed "From the Mars Hotel". What popular opening number of this album contains these lyrics?
"Wave that flag
Wave it wide and high
Summertime
Done come and gone
My oh my"
6. Another song off "From the Mars Hotel" is a slow ballad with the following lyrics. Can you name it?
"A pistol shot at five o'clock
The bells of heaven ring
Tell me what you done it for
No I won't tell you a thing
Yesterday I begged you
Before I hit the ground
All I leave behind me
Is only what I found"
7. The Grateful Dead's twelfth album was called "Blues for Allah", which was released in 1975 and starts off with a medley of three songs: "Help on the Way", the instrumental "Slipknot!", and this third song given by the following lyrics. Can you name it?
"God help the child who rings that bell
It may have one good ring left, you can't tell
One watch by night, one watch by day
If you get confused just listen to the music play
Roll away
The dew"
8. 1975's "Blues for Allah" also contained which Weir/Barlow song given by the following lyrics? (Donna Jean Godchaux features prominently in the vocals.)
"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!"
9. The much maligned and hard-to-find live album, "Steal Your Face", was the band's thirteenth album. It contained the first official Grateful Dead release of which song that originally appeared on the 1972 Bob Weir solo album "Ace" and given by the following lyrics?
"Bringing me down
I'm running aground
Blind in the light of the interstate cars
Passing me by
The buses and semis
Plunging like stones from a slingshot on Mars"
10. The Dead's fourteenth album, "Terrapin Station" was released in 1977. The first track is a tongue-in-cheek song about a man with delusions of grandeur. Can you name it provided the lyrics?
"And I'll call down thunder
And speak the same
And my word fills the sky with flame
And might and glory gonna be my name
And men gonna light my way"
11. What song from "Terrapin Station" contains the following lyrics?
"Inspiration, move me brightly
Light the song with sense and color
Hold away despair
More than this I will not ask
Faced with mysteries dark and vast
Statements just seem vain at last
Some rise, some fall
Some climb to get to..."
12. The Grateful Dead's fifteen album, "Shakedown Street" was released in November of 1978. Which song from the album contains the following lyrics? (HINT: Don't over-think it!)
"You tell me this town ain't got no heart
(Well, well, well - you can never tell)
The sunny side of the street is dark
(Well, well, well - You can never tell)
Maybe that's 'cause it's midnight
And the dark of the moon besides, or
Maybe the dark is in your eyes
Maybe the dark is in your eyes
Maybe the dark is in your eyes
You know you got such dark eyes"
13. One more song from "Shakedown Street": which song contains the following lyrics?
"When the club can't contain the beat
It just rolls out in the street
Spills on down the avenue
Bringing dancers to their feet
When it's good as it can be
It gets better, wait and see
These folks don't never sleep
Till they're passed out in the street"
14. The Grateful Dead's sixteenth album, 1980's "Go To Heaven", opens with which song having the following lyrics? (HINT: Again, don't think too hard!)
"Thirty two teeth in a jawbone
Alabama cryin' for none
Before I have to hit him
I hope he's got the sense to run"
15. And finally, this song from "Go To Heaven" is sung by Jerry Garcia and contains the following lyrics. Can you name the song?
"You may be Saturday's child all grown
Moving with a pinch of grace
You may be a clown in the burying ground
Or just another pretty face
You may be the fate of Ophelia
Sleeping and perchance to dream -
Honest to the point of recklessness
Self-centered to the extreme"
(Hint: It also appears in my Grateful Dead Title Characters quiz.)
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