Posted On: Saturday - March 25th 2017 7:13PM MST
In Topics: Music The Dead
Brokedown Palace from the studio album "American Beauty".
The other goodnight song by The Dead is "Ripple", to be posted another night.
Here are Robert Hunter's lyrics:
Fare you well, my honey, fare you well my only true one.
All the birds that were singing are flown, except for you alone.
Going to leave this brokedown palace.
On my hand and 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 going to take me, sing sweet and sleepy.
Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home.
It's a far gone lullaby, sung many years ago.
Mama, mama many worlds I've known since I first left home.
Goin' home, goin' home, by the riverside I will rest my bones.
Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul.
Going to plant a weeping willow.
On the bank's green edge it will grow, grow, grow.
Sing a lullaby down 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.
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