Looks like Robert Hunter Grateful Dead collaborator and Lyricist passed away last night.
Looks like Robert Hunter Grateful Dead collaborator and Lyricist passed away last night.
Ray Dearstone #009 D1A (1999)
Skip Kelley #063 Offset Two Point (2017)
Arches #9 A Style (2005)
Bourgeois M5A (2022)
Hohner and Seydel Harmonicas (various keys)
"Heck, Jimmy Martin don't even believe in Santy Claus!"
Rip.
Last edited by MikeEdgerton; Sep-25-2019 at 7:51am.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Fare you well my honey
Fare you well my only true one
All the birds that were singing
Have flown except you alone
Going to leave this Brokedown Palace
On my hands and my knees I will roll roll roll
Make myself a bed by the waterside
In my time - in my time - I will roll roll roll
In a bed, in a bed
by the waterside I will lay my head
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul
River gonna take me
Sing me sweet and sleepy
Sing me sweet and sleepy
all the way back back home
It's a far gone lullaby
sung many years ago
Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come
since I first left home
Goin home, goin home
by the waterside I will rest my bones
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul
Going to plant a weeping willow
On the banks green edge it will grow grow grow
Sing a lullaby beside the water
Lovers come and go - the river roll roll roll
Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...ad-889788/amp/
He will be missed, but thankfully his memorable lyrics will live on.
Lost one of the greatest lyricists of all time. The article says his favorite lyric was from Ripple, “Let it be known there is a fountain that was not made by the hands of men.” Dawg played on the studio version (like everyone here didn't already know that).
Sad news, goodbye Robert.
Thanks for the words Robert, RIP.
This one’s a joint effort:
Larry Price Friend Of The Devil written by Jerry Garcia
Tony Price Robert Hunter
Chris Hillman John Dawson
Herb Pedersen
G G/F# G/E G/D C C/B C/A C/F# 4X
G G/F# G/E G/D C C/B C/A C/F#
I lit out from Reno I was trailed by twenty hounds
G G/F# G/E G/D C C/B C/A C/F#
Didn't get to sleep last night but morning came around
D
Set out running but I take my time
Am
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine
D
If I get home before day light
Am D
I just might catch some sleep tonight
G G/F# G/E G/D C C/B C/A C/F#
Ran into the devil babe he loaned me twenty bills
G G/F# G/E C C/B C/A C/F#
Spent the night in Utah with a cave up in the hills
D
Set out running but I take my time
Am
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine
D
If I get home before day light
Am D
I just might get some sleep tonight
SOLO
D
Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night
C
The first one's named Sweet Anne Marie and she's my heart's delight
D
Second one's in prison babe the sheriff's on my trail
C D
And if he catches up with me I'll spend my life in jail
SOLO
G G/F# G/E G/D C C/B C/A C/F#
Ran down to the levee but the devil caught me there
G G/F# G/E G/D C C/B C/A C/F#
Took my twenty dollar bill and he vanished in the air
D
Set out running but I take my time
Am
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine
D
If I get home before day light
Am D
I just might get some sleep tonight
SOLO
D
Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night
C
The first one's named Sweet Anne Marie and she's my heart's delight
D
Second one's in prison babe the sheriff's on my trail
C D
And if he catches up with me I'll spend my life in jail
G G/F# G/E G/D C C/B C/A C/F#
Got a wife in Chino babe and one in Cherokee
G G/F# G/E G/D C C/B C/A C/F#
First one says she's got my child but it don't look like me
D
Set out running but I take my time
Am
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine
D
If I get home before day light
Am D
I just might get some sleep tonight
>From Rice,Rice,Hillman,Pedersen
Rounder Records 1999
Ice Nice Publishing Company
Never heard that anybody than Garcia, Dawson and Hunter should have been involved in the writing of Friend of the Devil
It's a huge loss....a true gentleman among those who wandered way out, but with out him they never could have wandered so far.
I was just listening last week to Jesse McReynolds' Songs of the Grateful Dead that Robert Hunter collaborated on. A beautiful CD, Robert was one of my favorite Lyricists. He seemed to evoke such a Depression Era Americana feeling on his songs.
He was one of the very best lyricists. Some absolutely great tunes came from his pen and the guitar of Jerry or Bobby.
"All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out." - Mark Twain
Eastman MD615SB
Martin D35
Gibson SG
I merged the two Robert Hunter threads.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Ray Dearstone #009 D1A (1999)
Skip Kelley #063 Offset Two Point (2017)
Arches #9 A Style (2005)
Bourgeois M5A (2022)
Hohner and Seydel Harmonicas (various keys)
"Heck, Jimmy Martin don't even believe in Santy Claus!"
It was those three. atsunrise's post is just a very confusingly formatted chord chart from a Rice, Rice, Hillman, Pedersen recording of FOTD.
Image it more like this:
Code:(Larry Price [sic]) Friend Of The Devil written by Jerry Garcia (Tony Price [sic]) Robert Hunter (Chris Hillman) John Dawson (Herb Pedersen)
Thanks Jefflester, many apologies, it’s my occasionally provocative nature that got the better of me.
I could add in my defense that the site where I found this info has been up for many years, spreading the confusion.
On a lighter note here’s a prank call from a Grateful Dead lover, or at least someone who enjoyed Robert’s poetry.
The discussion is the never ending, sometime farcical Brexit or Remain, yes or no debate.
I like Farage by the way, he enjoys a good laugh.
Q: What's the difference between songwriting and poetry?
A: Royalties.
But it's damn good when they come together. Bye, Bob.
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