Grateful Dead - St Stephen (Playboy After Dark, 1969)

Grateful Dead
Playboy After Dark, Episode #23
Taped on January 18th, 1969

 

Mountains of The Moon
St. Stephen

 

1969년 1월 공연이었고 앨범 Aoxomoxoa (1969)에 포함되어 있는 곡입니다. Aoxomoxoa (1969)가 1969년6월 release가 되었으니 Aoxomoxoa (1969) 앨범 작업을 하는 중에 한 공연이라고 할 수 있겠습니다. 그해 8월에 있었던 Woodstock Festival에서도 이곡을 연주했었지요.

 

St. Stephen

 

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?