The Grateful Dead
Brown-Eyed Women/The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down/Beer Barrel Polka (Live at Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA, December 2, 1973)
[Verse 1]
Gone are the days when the ox fall down
Take up the yoke and plow the fields around
Gone are the days when the ladies said "Please
Gentle Jack Jones, won't you come to me"
[Chorus]
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on
[Verse 2]
1920 when he stepped to the bar
Drank to the dregs of the whiskey jar
1930 when the wall caved in
He made his way selling red-eyed gin
[Chorus]
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
Delilah Jones was the mother of twins
Two times over and the rest were sins
Raised eight boys, only I turned bad
Didn't get the lickin's that the other ones had
[Chorus]
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on
[Bridge]
Tumble down shack in Big Foot County
Snowed so hard that the roof caved in
Delilah Jones went to meet her God
And the old man never was the same again
[Verse 4]
Daddy made whiskey and he made it well
Cost two dollars and it burned like hell
I cut hickory just to fire the still
Drink down a bottle and be ready to kill
[Chorus]
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on
[Verse 5]
Gone are the days when the ox fall down
You take up the yoke and plow the fields around
Gone are the days when the ladies said "Please
Gentle Jack Jones, won't you come to me?"
[Outro]
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on
[Interlude]
See if this one's working yet. (What was that?) Turn it up more, turn it more, Sparky, it's still not great, very much there. (Listen, you can't yell sentences of more than five words at us. We're a little shell shocked, you understand, so keep 'em simple, folks.) Right, keep your verb tenses real simple, too. (None of your business, man. What are you, the heat? You're awful curious. Yeah right, take off your disguise, man, and show us who you really are. Let's have a spotlight on this man here. One, two, three, four from the rear, I mean four from the front, ha ha. Slowest light crew in the world.)
[The Merry Go-Round Broke Down]
[Instrumental]
[Beer Barrel Polka]
[Instrumental]