Row Jimmy

Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Jerry Garcia

Julie catch a rabbit by his hair
Come back step, like to walk on air (note 1)
Get back home where you belong
And don't you run off no more

Don't hang your head, let the two-time roll
Grass shack nailed to a pine wood floor
Ask the time baby I don't know
Come back later, gonna let it show

Chorus
And I say row, Jimmy, row
Gonna get there, I don't know
Seems a common way to go
Get down and row, row, row, row, row

Here's a half a dollar if you dare (note 2)
Double twist when you hit the air
Look at Julie down below
The levee doing the dopaso

[chorus]

Broken heart don't feel so bad
You ain't got half of what you thought you had
Rock your baby to and fro
Not too fast and not too slow

[chorus]

That's the way it's been in town
Ever since they tore the juke box down
Two bit piece don't buy no more
Not so much as it done before

[chorus]
Notes
(1) this is as Hunter has the lyrics in "Box Of Rain", but the sheet music has "Come back steppin' like to walk on air." It's almost impossible to distinguish which Garcia sings, but I'll believe "step."
(2) Hunter has "Here's my half a dollar ..." and that's what Garcia sings in early performances (eg 28 Feb 1973 on Dick's Picks 28). But sometime later Garcia changed it to "a half a dollar" - eg on "Wake Of The Flood."

Grateful Dead Recordings
     Date Album
     studio 1973 Wake Of The Flood
     28 Feb 1973 Dick's Picks Vol 28
     19 Oct 1973 Dick's Picks Vol 19
      9 Nov 1973 Winterland 1973 - The Complete Recordings
     10 Nov 1973 Winterland 1973 - The Complete Recordings
     10 Dec 1973 Download Series Vol 8
     28 Jun 1974 Dick's Picks Vol 12
      9 Sep 1974 Dick's Picks Vol 7
     18 Jun 1976 Download Series Vol 4
     19 May 1977 Dick's Picks Vol 29
     21 May 1977 Dick's Picks Vol 29
     16 Sep 1978 Rocking The Cradle: Egypt 1978 (CD and DVD)
     10 Oct 1980 Dead Set (note 3)
      4 Jul 1989 Truckin' Up To Buffalo (DVD & CD soundtrack)
     26 Mar 1990 Dozin' At The Knick
      8 Jul 1990 View From The Vault (video/DVD & CD soundtrack)
     14 Jun 1991 View From The Vault II (video/DVD & CD soundtrack)
     16 Dec 1992 Dick's Picks Vol 27

Recordings from dead.net Tapers Section

Ratdoglive CDs and downloads
 
Other Recordings
     Date Album Recorded By
     1993 The Best Of All Possible Worlds Bowers & Winston
     1996 Fire On The Mountain Vol 1 Reggae Celebrates The Grateful Dead (Judy Mowatt)
     1999 Laughing Water Jazz Is Dead
     2000 Grass Is Dead Crazy Fingers
     2000 Wake The Dead Danny Carnahan et al

Notes
(3) issued as a bonus track in the box set Beyond Description (1973-1990)


Futher Information
For an online discussion of the lyrics to this song see the deadsongs.vue conference on The Well.
For more information on recordings see Matt Schofield's Grateful Dead Family Discography
For information on references in the lyrics see David Dodd's Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
For online chords and TAB see www.rukind.com
For sheet music, see:
          Grateful Dead Anthology Volume 1 (piano arrangement)
          Grateful Dead Songbook Volume 2 (piano arrangement)
          Garcia/Hunter Songbook (vocal line and chords/TAB)

 


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