Grateful Dead - St. Stephen

Garcia,Lesh,Hunter

Lyrics:
Saint stephen with a rose, in and out of the garden he goes,
Country garden in the wind and the rain,
Wherever he goes the people all complain.

Stephen prospered in his time, well he may and he may decline.
Did it matter, does it now? stephen would answer if he only knew how.
Wishing well with a golden bell, bucket hanging clear to hell,
Hell halfway twixt now and then,
Stephen fill it up and lower down and lower down again.

Lady finger, dipped in moonlight, writing what for? across the morning sky.
Sunlight splatters, dawn with answer, darkness shrugs and bids the day good-bye.

Speeding arrow, sharp and narrow,
What a lot of fleeting matters you have spurned.
Several seasons with their treasons,
Wrap the babe in scarlet colors, call it your own.
Did he doubt or did he try? answers aplenty in the bye and bye,
Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills,
One man gathers what another man spills.

Saint stephen will remain, all hes lost he shall regain,
Seashore washed by the suds and foam,
Been here so long, hes got to calling it home.

Fortune comes a crawlin, calliope woman, spinnin that curious sense of your own.
Can you answer? yes I can. but what would be the answer to the answer man?

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Grateful
• Dead
• St.
• Stephen

[Tom3620]

THE GRATEFUL DEAD FUCKING SUCK!!!!!

Good, Now i have all of your attention, i fucking love the grateful dead. I would kill santa clause just to chill with them. Rock on dead heads :

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[poeticreject]

Live Dead album had the best version of this song... listened to it the first time I did pot...and blow...and acid....my first prostitute.....and those eighteen tequila shots.... that was a crazy four and a half minutes I tell you what...

[SoyJames]

@2:18

[ZeroSymbolic7188]

@Simplybl00dy 12-15-2004 Rated 0 This song may or may not be about Stephen Gaskin, a late sixties San Francisco counterculture figure who later moved (along with quite a few other hippies) to Tennessee where they founded the commune/intentional community called "The Farm" which still exists and where Stephen is still living.

[Yajelyk]

and it turns blue!!! sharp and narrow! several seasons, one man gathers what another man spills, st stephen will remain all he lost he shall regain rock onintothefuturehappiness

[TNAisWWEv2]

Skellington smoking a nice fat joint.

[cincybmx420]

@Simplybl00dy  St. Stephen was the first martyr for CHRIST in Acts after CHRIST'S RESURRECTION.

[Simplybl00dy]

I would love to know what this song is about would any one explain to me please?!

[ledbasszeppelin]

i only clicked on this because my name is steven so i was like cool and i am so glad that i clicked on this because ths song is great

[mwfajano930]

whoa, didn't realize the trippy color affects... rock on baby

[Surcoenlinea]

M egusta son lo mejor

[TheBGZ187]

Oh man, trips of my youth comming back. Blissful days, now im getting older and starting to bald LOLOL!!! Just wait kiddies