Dave Matthews Band - Leave Me Praying (Synced Audio) - 6/26/97 - [Early Don't Drink The Water]

Dave Matthews Band perform Leave Me Praying as the encore 1 song on 6/26/97. Leave Me Praying later turned into Don't Drink The Water when recording Before these Crowded Streets for it's 1998 release.

The song was also sometimes refered to as "Weight of the World" during the '96 Dave and Tim tour....

Thanks to Willndmb for the old VHS vid. Synced over taper audio.

The Audio is good and the video might be the only video of this early "song". It is what it is :)

Lyrics to this version from dmbalmanac.com:

oh when the story my father told me
the story of how ancestors
sailed the sea
and they search for a land where they could ??
now would lead to ??
?? my mind races
then they would build my ??
what we deny they said to us
to find ??
to find our mothers, fathers and children all ready there
so ??
no man
no prayer I bring
?? my heart
??
and so it was said to these our new neighbors
we must move on or they will bury us
and so it was said to these our new neighbors
you must move on or we will bury you

[wailing]

and so ??
and I stood
dreading of my fate (?)
and so I stood
not beliving what father said
that I might remember
on another ??
and I might
home that they built on the father's grave
?? away I hold this fear
so ?? calling ??

and so it was said to these our new neighbors
you must move on or we will bury you
??
and so it was said to these our new neighbors
you must move on or we will bury you
we will bury you
this land is your land
this land is my land
from California to the New York island
from the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters
this land was made
well see it
??

[wailing]

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[phishedin1]

@citrix99301, DDTW is based off this song. and this is based on an earlier version called Weight of the World.

[citrix99301]

@SWEETWILLKINGSTON Are the tabs for the intro / verse to this fairly similar to DDTW?  It seems like it's in the same key but can't figure out the slide he's doing.

[cadilacrich]

damn fine sync.

[sweendoger]

Awesome!... Hope he plays it with Tim in Vega$ next week!

[bwb0028]

man i wish they would bring this back for a show or two

[SWEETWILLKINGSTON]

I play guitar, and I like to play this going into Don't Drink the Water, and then go into This Land is Your Land....because this, IMHO, was better!

[jamie69247]

i cant wait to get the new Live Trax with this, Beauty of Wynona, and a few other rare gems

[jamie69247]

i cant wait to get the new Live Trax with this, Beauty of Wynona, and a few other rare gems

[archbah]

Jay... You are the Best of What's Around! You & Scotty!