Lyrics: Bob Weir
Music: Bob Weir
Played by Bob Weir with the Grateful Dead and with most of his other bands.
I went down to the mountain, I was drinking some wine (note 1)Notes
I looked up into heaven, lord I saw a mighty sign
Writ in fire across the heaven, plain as black and white
Get prepared, there's gonna be a party tonight
Chorus
Uh huh, hey, Saturday night
One more Saturday night (note 2)
Hey, Saturday night
Everybody's dancing down at the local armory (note 3)
With a basement full of dynamite and live artillery
Temperature keeps rising, everybody getting high
Come the rocking stroke of midnight, the whole place is gonna fly
[chorus]
I turn on Channel Six, the President comes on the news (note 4)
Says I got no satisfaction, that's why I sing the blues
His wife says don't get crazy, Lord you know what to do (note 5)
Just crank that old Victrola, put on your rocking shoes
[chorus]
Then God way up in heaven, for whatever it was worth
Thought he'd have a big old party, thought he'd call it planet earth
Don't worry about tomorrow, Lord, you'll know it when it comes (note 6)
When the rocking, rolling music meets the rising, shining sun
[chorus]
I may be young and crazy, but I can't see Reason One
For fightin' or complainin' when we should be havin' fun
"[Weir and Hunter] clashed again over "One More Saturday Night." Having gotten Hunter's lyrics, Weir rewrote them--badly in Hunter's opinion--and then asked to call the resulting song "U.S.Blues," which Hunter refused to permit. In the end, he declined any association with the song and it was credited to Weir alone." [p393]Robert Hunter confirmed this in a 1978 interview:
"The song that Weir did, "One More Satuday Night", was originally "U.S.Blues", but he got it into his mind to re-write the lyrics. And he still wanted to call it "U.S.Blues". But I said no way, I'll write another "U.S.Blues", which I did."[This also adds irony to the line "You can call this song the United States Blues"].
Gans: A story that ... I wanted to check out with you is, I've heard rumors over the years that "One More Saturday Night" actually began as a Hunter lyric and he took his name off it. Is that true?Robert Hunter posted the following lyrics on DeadNet Central - I don't know if it's the verse Weir refers to
Weir: Yeah, it began as a Hunter lyric. "One more Saturday night" was his line. I wrote the rest. [laughs]
Gans: How did that happen?
Weir: I don't remember. I think he had a verse or something, a sketch he gave me. I got started working on it and, it all happened in one night. I got up a head of steam and cranked the song out, and I used that one line. And as I was writing, the rest of that verse wasn't ringing my lofty bells, and I kept intending to work it back in to the tune, and then take everything I'd written and submit to Hunter and let him correct it, but he... as far as he was concerned, the song was done, so he took his name off it.
Dynamitin' depot, bricks are pourin down
Cost your reputation if they catch you hangin round
Ev'ry choice you look at serves but to confuse
Reckon you could call it the United States Blues
Oh baby, One more Saturday night
Unhuh, One more Saturday night