Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Jerry Garcia
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
If you can abide it
Let the hurdy gurdy play
Stranger ones have come by here
Before they flew away
I will not condemn you
Nor yet would I deny
I would ask the same of you
But failing, will not die
Take up your china doll
It's only fractured
Just a little nervous from the fall
La la la la la la la
| Grateful Dead Recordings | |||||
| Date | Album | ||||
| (studio) 8 Aug 1973 | Wake Of The Flood (note 1) | ||||
| (studio) Apr 1974 | From The Mars Hotel | ||||
| 9 Nov 1973 | Winterland 1973 - The Complete Recordings | ||||
| 11 Nov 1973 | Winterland 1973 - The Complete Recordings | ||||
| 18 Jun 1974 | Road Trips Number 2, Volume 3 | ||||
| 19 Oct 1974 | Grateful Dead Movie (companion CD only) | ||||
| 19 May 1977 | Dick's Picks Vol 29 | ||||
| 29 Dec 1977 | Dick's Picks Vol 10 | ||||
| Sep/Oct 1980 | Reckoning | ||||
| 23 Oct 1980 | Reckoning (note 2) | ||||
| 16 Jun 1990 | View From The Vault III (video/DVD & CD soundtrack) | ||||
| 25 Sep 1991 | Dick's Picks Vol 17 | ||||
| 26 May 1993 | Road Trips Vol 2, No 4 | ||||
Recordings from dead.net Tapers Section
"The Dead" Concert Recordings
Furthur Digital Downloads and CDs
Phil Lesh and Friends Digital Download Series
| Other Recordings | |||||
| Date | Album | Recorded By | |||
| 1991 | Deadicated | Suzanne Vega | |||
| 1995 | Monday Prayer To Tunkashila | Pat Mallinger | |||
| 1996 | Music Of The Grateful Dead | David Murray Octet | |||
| 1999 | Terrapin | Joe Gallant & Illuminati | |||
| 2000 | Crazy Fingers | The Grass Is Dead | |||
| 2001 | Gratefully Yours | Jim Hudak | |||
| 2001 | Gifts From The Dead | Gifts From The Dead | |||
| 2002 | Electronic Tribute To The Grateful Dead | Various (H-Hustler - remix) | |||
| 2005 | Fortune and Death | Radio Free Earth | |||
| 2007 | Dead Symphony | Lee Johnson | |||