Argentina

Backed up flat against the wall
Comping chords while nations fall
I can't run but I might crawl
I hear Argentina call
Like an arrow right through my soul
Shot from way way down below
Repression or security
Which is which and who is free

I don't know should I go
Should I go down to Argentina
Should I go pack and blow
Should I go or hold till tomorrow

Everything seems so double damn sure
That they alone see the larger picture
They must know something I don't get to know
Some private snapshot of the future
To justify all the shame and death
Might as well just save their breath
The cynical left or the cynical right
Both sides spoiling for a fight

Is everything relative from top to toe
Could be true but I don't think so
Or could it be I need more perspective
To find the high in so much low

I don't know should I go
Should I go down to Argentina
Should I go pack and blow
Should I go or hold off
Bless my soul let it roll
Eh la vas roll away to Argentina
Let it roll should I go
All the way down down on down below

Give It Up
Robert Hunter, Rob Barraco

Give it up for the guitar
Give it up for the drum
Give it up for the sake of love
Give it up, let it come

Don't hold on to yesterday
Don't hold on to the pain
Don't hold on like there's Hell to pay
Living like love is in vain

Chorus:
Give it up/ give it up (right now)
Give it up/ baby, one more time
Give it up/ put it all on the line

Stir it up in the morning
Stir it up through the night
Stir it up with no prior warning
Stir it up till it's right

Reel it out when you're ready
Pull it back when you're done
Fill it up with love and music
Walk awhile in the sun

Limbo Rag
Robert Hunter, Rob Barraco

Small stone and a hand held sling. o
Ain't this a terrible time
here in limbo
filagreed tournaquet offstage lingo
risky but it ain't no crime
here in limbo
from a second story window

If I knew myself better
I'd turn away
Write myself an angry letter
What would I say?

Wink at the moon
What else can you do?
Wink at the moon
Until she turns blue

Stuffed like a sausage skin with
basil, sage and thyme
here in limbo
Pick my teeth with a poisoned arrow
and hide inside my rhyme
here in Limbo
Black arachnids of the dawn
spin your webs for me
Here in Limbo
Play cantobello
on cast iron cello

Strolling in the dark
Through old Central Park
Dollar bills come raining down
like crap shooting stars
A mermaid sings off key
but that don't bother me
I didn't pay admission
I just wandered in for free

I don't believe in nothing
I'm not paid to believe
If you find anything for sure
please tell me
otherwise I'll sit it out
and hope someone somewhere sometime

is watching out for me like I'd be
watching out for you
here in Limbo
Watching out for you like you'd be
watching out for me
here in Limbo
from a second story window

Might try to help you in
some unexpected way
Might try to help you light
the dark side of the day
Wink at the moon
What else can you can do?
Wink at the moon
until she turns blue

second story window
overlooking Limbo

it might not matter much
it's tough to get it right
it might not matter much
on the other hand it might

Old Coast Highway
Robert Hunter, Rob Barraco

Believe that I will take the Old Coast Highway
Leave route 101 near Half Moon Bay
Make it on down to San Juan Capistrano in time to pray
Did we save it all up to throw it away?

Well if you and me pull together
I know we could find a better way
Lovin you the way I do what else can I say?
It shouldn't have to end this way

Guess we're going through the next transition
Acting like the world is just a stage to play on
I been throwin sevens damn nearly everytime I roll
Betting next to nothing but my soul

But if you and me pull together
this love of ours could be a work of art
Just going through the motions nevergot us very far
'fraid to lose our heads and risk our hearts

Cinnamon cologne, french fries and roses
Jelly roll stripped clear down to the bone
"Sophisticated Lady" on a vintage gramophone
played across a hand cranked telephone

Darlin' make my bed both soft and narrow
Don't you bury me in the cold cold ground
Just drop me atop some bright blue/ misty mountain
Where soaring hawks and eagles circle round

Believe that I will take the Old Coast Highway
Tool on down the wide Pacific shore
Nothing in my rear view mirror but sunshine through the rain
they don't make 'em like they did no more
Singing "nananananana, nananananana"
Sleep beneath the stars by candle light
Underneath a willow with a cactus for my pillow,
'til every single star falls from the sky

One Dog Blues
Robert Hunter, Rob Barraco

Good morning
have you heard the news?
They've gone and resurrected
the first man born to lose
Good afternoon, babe
morning went by so fast
Nothing you can do about it
to make the damned thing last

Still standing on the corner
by pale moonlight
just try'n to tie my shoes
first tied the left then I tied the right
singin' the One Dog Blues all night

Chorus:
Walk the straight and narrow (4x)

Crossroads of Cherry
Cherry Pie and the Pit
Try'n to make a living by the
exercise of grace and wit
Strummin' thumb piano
in the key of E flat
while a West wind whistles
right through my snap brim hat

Bayin' like a blood hound
try'n to sing the One Dog
try'n to sing the One Dog Blues
I been croakin like a Bullfrog
try'n to sing the One Dog Blues

Little darlin'
don't you bother with me
I'm a little mixed up
by all the things I've seen

A girl works the bar with a
Shiver and shake
Used to be a queen
All the flatfeet on the take
Playin' it cool and mean

Ride Ride Ride
Robert Hunter, Phil Lesh, Rob Barraco

Like a poor wayfaring stranger
With nothing to his name
But last night's stolen paper
To set the world aflame
My overcoat is broken
My socks don't match my feet
Just got one subway token
Between me and the street

Like a lonestar Texas Ranger
You may not see my face
It ain't because I hide it
It's only been misplaced
Action is my watchword
I wear it on my wrist
I'm just looking to fill a space
Where I will not be missed

Meanwhile I'll ride
Uptown, downtown, crosstown
Wherever the train rolls
That's where I'll go
The world may change
By the time I get outside
And maybe it won't
Ride, ride, ride

Like a hound out on a blood trail
A needle in the straw
I been searching for a white sail
Until my eyes are raw
Rise and fall on hope alone
The waves don't signify
One ring on your telephone
To say I didn't die

Like youth with all its appetite
Like old age blind on trust
Like a rainstorm overnight
That blows away the dust
Valentines are valentines
A heart is what I crave
Not a bunch of highway signs
Pointing to the grave

Like magic done in moonlight
A rabbit from a hat
Like knowledge gained by 2cnd sight
That strokes a well fed cat
Pictures of my past fly by
Like petals from a cloud
There's just time to wonder why
And vanish in the crowd

Ten thousand years from Saturday
The sun will cast its light
On forest green and oceans
Serenely clean and bright
Either we will learn to love
Or pack and go our way
Leaving only monuments
To mark our desperate day

When We All Come Home
Rob Barraco, Rob Friedman

It's ok to have dreams
They can even come true
While you climb that hill
I wish your dreams on you
And it's ok to cry
Sorrow washes away
Like tears in a river
Like light in a day

When we all come home
When we all come home
Well the neighborhood has changed
But the welcome still remains
When we all come home

It's ok to have faith
It can even be blind
When you stare at the sun
In a sky blue mind
And it's ok to love
Let it lift you higher
Like waves on the ocean
Like flames in a fire

It's ok to let go
No, you can't prepare
Like writing on water
Like wind in the air
Like luck for the lucky
Like a wing and a prayer

When You Say When
Robert Hunter, Rob Barraco

Well, most of the time I watch and wonder
Is anything worth what it takes to earn?
Well most of the time it all depends
On lessons I don't seem to ever learn

Lovin' another's never easy, let alone
Treating thy neighbor as thy own self in
A high stakes poker game

Bet you a hundred dollars to a dime
The wall that I climb / is the wall from which I fall
but I'll Climb /again when you say "when"

You wear the moon and the stars around your finger
They rise and they shine when you tell them to
They fall back down to land / when you wave your hand
How it is that happens I don't know

One and all fall / then they rise back once again
Over yonder garden wall when you say
"when" / when you say "when"

You may tell me it's time to take what's mine
Or let it all go / win, lose or show, you know
It all depends (on)/ when you say "when"

Got a card in the mail / here's what it read
Keep your dead ass out of jail / and keep the baby fed

Well I been sweating in the cold wet wind and rain
Well I been tryin to tune the whistle on
A Hellbound diesel train

Well I been tryin with all my homesick soul
To see you again / me and all of my friends
Know it all depends / it all depends
Depends on when / when you say "when"