# Please help me figure out what the title of this song is!

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 20, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-figure-out-what-the-title-of-this-song-is/176373 "2003-05-20T20:10:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![HazyBaby33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@HazyBaby33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazyBaby33)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-figure-out-what-the-title-of-this-song-is/176373/1 "2003-05-20T20:10:34Z")

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I’ve been trying to figure out the title of a song by the Grateful Dead/ Phil and Friends, but I can’t find it anywhere. Normally, I would just use Google to search with part of the lyrics, but all I can remember from the song is something that sounds like “Roll away, Jidoo” or something really odd… Can anybody help?

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-figure-out-what-the-title-of-this-song-is/176373/2 "2003-05-20T20:13:10Z")

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LOL. 😉 The song is called “Franklin’s Tower,” and it’s a Grateful Dead song (from the album Blues for Allah, if you’re curious). The chorus is “Roll away THE DEW.”

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**Author:** ![HazyBaby33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@HazyBaby33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazyBaby33)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-figure-out-what-the-title-of-this-song-is/176373/3 "2003-05-20T20:15:35Z")

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Oh wow… I feel kinda dumb… at least I got the “Roll Away” part right… Thanks so much!!

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-figure-out-what-the-title-of-this-song-is/176373/4 "2003-05-20T20:17:46Z")

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The full lyrics (with an explanation from author Robert Hunter, which is EXTREMELY rare and unusual for him) can be found here: [http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/franklin.html](http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/franklin.html)