lx. GRATEFUL DEAD: Alabama Getaway

lx. GRATEFUL DEAD

Alabama Getaway (1980)
Jerry Garcia, guitar, vocals
Mickey Hart, drums
Bill Kreutzman, drums
Phil Lesh, bass
Brent Mydland, keyboards, vocals
Bob Weir, guitar, vocals
(3:32)

From Go To Heaven.

Garcia/Robert Hunter tune.

It really moves.

Thirty two teeth in a jawbone
Alabama tryin' for none
Before I have to hit him
I hope he's got the sense to run

Reason the poor girls love him
Promise them everything
Why they all believe him
He wears a big diamond ring

Alabama getaway getaway
Alabama getaway getaway
Only way to please me
Jus' sit down with me
And walk away

[guitar solo]

Majordomo Billy Bojangles
Sat down and had a drink with me
Say what about Alabama
It keeps comin' back to me?

I heard your plea in the courthouse
Witness box began to rock and rise
Forty-nine sister states had
Alabama in their eyes

Alabama getaway getaway
Alabama getaway getaway
Only way to please me
Jus' sit down with me
And walk away

[guitar solo]

Lady said why don't we give him
Rope enough to hang himself?
No need to worry the jury
They'll probably take care of themselves

Twenty-third Psalm Majordomo
Reserve me a table for three
Down in the Valley of the Shadow
It's you, Alabama and me

Alabama getaway getaway
Alabama getaway getaway
Only way to please me
Jus' sit down with me
And walk away