# The Reply is a Grateful Dead Lyric
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [May 25, 2010, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672 "2010-05-25T04:23:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/1 "2010-05-25T04:23:59Z")
Covers count (Watchtower, El Paso, etc.).
Well, me and my uncle went ridin’ down
South Colorado, West Texas bound.
We Stopped over in Santa Fe,
That bein’ the point just about halfway,
And you know it was the hottest part of the day.
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/2 "2010-05-25T05:18:00Z")
Leaving Texas, fourth day of July
Sun so hot, the clouds so low, the eagles filled the sky
Catch the Detroit Lightning out of Santa Fe
The Great Northern out of Cheyenne, from sea to shining sea
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### Author:  [@bubba\_jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubba_jr)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/3 "2010-05-25T05:24:34Z")
All you need is a left hand monkey wrench…
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/4 "2010-05-25T05:28:25Z")
Get on the wire, switch operator to write,
Cause the monkey’s got the main line sewed up tight.
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### Author:  [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/5 "2010-05-25T09:55:40Z")
Driving that train, high on cocaine,
Casey Jones you’d better, watch your speed.
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### Author:  [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/6 "2010-05-25T10:30:54Z")
Your streets run deep with poisoned wine
Your doorways crawl with fear
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### Author:  [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/7 "2010-05-25T11:12:49Z")
You’d better get back to Tennessee, Jed.
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### Author:  [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/8 "2010-05-25T11:13:38Z")
I may be going to hell in a bucket, Baby,
but at least I’m enjoying the ride.
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/9 "2010-05-25T17:24:12Z")
Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it’s been.
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### Author:  [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/10 "2010-05-25T17:26:13Z")
I’m goin’ where the winds don’t blow so strange…
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### Author:  [@MTRG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTRG)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/11 "2010-05-25T17:31:43Z")
Down, down by the docks of the city,
Blind and dirty asked me for a dime,
A dime for a cup of coffee
I got no dime but I got time to hear his story.
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/12 "2010-05-25T18:01:15Z")
A lotta poor man make a five dollar bill, keep him happy all the time.
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### Author:  [@MTRG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTRG)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/13 "2010-05-25T18:45:48Z")
All I’m asking for is ten gold dollars
I could pay you back with one good hand.
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### Author:  [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/14 "2010-05-25T19:43:01Z")
It goes to show, you don’t ever know, ya’ better watch each card you play, play 'em slow…
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/15 "2010-05-25T19:44:49Z")
Sometimes the cards ain’t worth a dime
If you don’t lay 'em down
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/16 "2010-05-25T20:39:26Z")
I been gamblin’ herabouts for ten good solid years,
If I told you what went down, it would burn off both of your ears.
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### Author:  [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/17 "2010-05-25T20:40:42Z")
I cut my deck to the Queen of spades,
but the cards were all the same.
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/18 "2010-05-25T21:07:22Z")
I can tell the Queen of diamonds by the way she shines.
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### Author:  [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/19 "2010-05-25T23:23:23Z")
Dust off those rusty strings just one more time—Gonna make 'em SHINE…
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### Author:  [@MTRG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTRG)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/20 "2010-05-26T02:55:45Z")
the bottle was dusty
the liquor was clean
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