Grateful Dead - Peggy O (best live version)

[tcantel1]

What would your momma think...if she heard my guineas clink???



[MrAbeone]

ROSEBUD!!!!!



[MrProverbs318]

Thank you! Wow!

[moonshinedawg]

was there* 

[claybuddy]

There is something great about the wind blowing Jerry's hair around. Such an amazing song!!

[wharfratstill]

as we rolled out of.......

[wingman572]

@liljonsp616- san francisco 12-31-84

[gr8wa3]

Thank you Jerry.



[08shortstop]

This video breaks my heart ... Jerry in that purple T-shirt looking like he's 80 years old ... still delivering great music, with more effort ... then he was gone.

[taxid3rmy]

Musical Gold, cheers j0nas360 for the upload.

[irtimed]

wouldn't say this is the best version. this is post-brent.

[liljonsp616]

@irtimed Agreed

[uradragon]

I love video. sweet

[KumuRick]

Yep, this sets the bar and has for me every since I first saw it. There are lot of other great versions out there but to be able to have this performance along with the great audio and camera work, it really makes this clip -God I miss Jerry !

[niptotheair]

Who's the douche who didn't like this song?

[Yngeldorf]

Nah, imo this isn't the best version. way too fast!

[wingman572]

actually there are many versions better then this, but to each thier own

[liljonsp616]

@wingman572 what one? I would like to check it out.

[deerhunter34100]

Best version right here, love it!

[whiteface77]

great song i love the dead

[cheffability]

its all about jerry and we are a part of everything dear

[gusgerlop]

al fin! alguien que habla español y le gustan los dead....grande jOnas360!

[richcianci]

It wasn't Garcia that changed the soldier's name to William and the town Fennario. The earliest recording with those changes was by the Journeymen in 1961. Two years later, Joan Baez recorded the song as "Fennario".

[jmcnamara100]

4.12.78 is better than this

[koko7106]

@jmcnamara100 always thought that too but didnt wanna be the one guy to piss everyone off on such a great song

[Familyman1313]

@jmcnamara100 they are all equally amazing, no dead song is better than another.

[pinballwizard108]

doesn't get any better than this

[wisskier]

This is a great rendition of the song and its these old traditional based songs that Jerry really sings great in his later years.

[dabuik1]

yeh this is cool thanks. everything's perfect

[tiaracara]

Did anyone settle on when/where this version comes from? I will weigh on that it is clearly a 90s show.. def not 77... and due to how lucid he is, and how he went the whole song without forgetting a word, Im gonna say EARLIER in the 90s- perhaps 91 or 92- help! I want this version on my iPod..

[nicolaslowe79]

@rlfischbeck-Afraid you are wrong on this one brutha. Indeed based on a Scottish folk song, "The Bonnie Lass o'Fyvie" or The Maid of Fife. Certainly no Civil War tune

[sagecutter]

unbelievable storyteller...and their music was a tremendous vehicle for Jerry's stories. And to think i didnt start listenin to the Dead until after i stopped smokin pot. How's that for fucked up? The best jam band of all time....2nd place is so distant its not even worth talkin about. God bless the Dead.

[tgraceify]

It's a Celtic folk song called the Maid of Fife about a thwarted romance between a soldier and a girl in Aberdeen. Like many folk songs,authorship is unattributed. The song is also known by a variety of other names, the most common of them being "Peggy-O". The captain's name is Ned and the town is Fife, (Five-y-o in the song to rhyme) Garcia has renamed the soldier William and the town Finnario.

[concretejungle80cruz]

@tgraceify thank you for the history! I knew it was an old celtic song but didn't know the rest.

[j4967p]

in so many ways, with respect to performances, he just continued to improve.

[1Anonymouse]

oh man, jerry in shorts! i sure do miss that sweet man

[knelz9]

I saw these guys live something like 70-times...and it was always special to get this song. This is actually a very old American folk song whose origins are unknown...the name of the song is actually "Fennarrio" or "Fenarrio" and many others have also covered this song. I miss Jerry, but I feel lucky to have seen them as many times as I did, and really like this version...thanks for posting.

[pfmaguire2000]

who was sweet william?

[seandelgado]

@pfmaguire2000  William the conqueror.

[rlfischbeck]

@seandelgado Bit early there, bro. Civil war tune

[CaptainBillWalker52]

They are really missed

[fiifiikiitii]

I love Jerry. I had a cat that looked like him. His name was Special and then one day Special and I were in my living room and having fun being kitten and girl and Jerry was doing his thing on my tape deck and Special was digging it and he had these little gray hairs on his chin and he was bulky looked awkward but really was so very adept even though his back legs did not work very well AND then his name became Jerry and I loved him forever.....I know a cat story oh well but I love both jerrys

[DoctorSapperstein]

For all the Peggy O fans.

Check out 04-12-1982.

That is my favorite version by far.

It is much slower than here and the solo is unbelievably pretty.

Jerry's vocals are very touching too.

PLEASE check it out.

Also, 06-17-1975 is a classic version

[dgb55dgb]

@DoctorSapperstein I have all of the comercial live recordings such as DP's, Road Trips etc that are available. How would I find the versions of Peggy-O that you mentioned? I like the version on DP 15 and Go to Nassau. Thanks for your help.

[johanbjorken]

love this tune...def think 5/19/77 is my favorite version of the song

[archyris]

5/5/77 is better...  but i still love it. my fav jg ballad.

[bobshenix]

If Jerry didn't mess up the lyrics so bad this would be the best version ever... might still be lol

The solo is pure magic. Magic in the purest sense i love it!!

[myhungryhippo]

deff not 5.9.77 94 man

[maybe2045]

5.9.77 Buffalo.

[UngratefulLiving420]

Me gusta el Grateful Dead.

[deadhead1130]

wow

[yoleelopez]

Yep, best version ever! Thanks for posting....

[m4maule]

Cuando era? 26-6-94? Peggy 0 es mi favorito.

[bethfogel]

Bueno!!

[deadcustodian]

Si es muy bueno!