# 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:** 6
### Author:  [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/101 "2010-06-09T18:11:45Z")
I know you rider gonna miss me when I’m gone
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### Author:  [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/102 "2010-06-09T18:46:59Z")
I been chippin’ them rocks from dawn till doom,
while my rider hide my bottle in the other room.
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/103 "2010-06-09T21:11:07Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/104 "2010-06-09T21:17:26Z")
He’s gone, he’s gone,
And nothing’s going to bring him back
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### Author:  [@MTRG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTRG)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/105 "2010-06-09T21:44:15Z")
say you’ll come back when you can
whenever your airplane happens to land
maybe i’ll be back here too
It all depends on what’s with you
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### Author:  [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/106 "2010-06-09T22:44:25Z")
Life maybe sweeter for this, I don’t know,
see how it feels in the end.
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2010, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/107 "2010-06-10T05:12:17Z")
Till we all fall down, it’ll do you fine,
Don’t think about what you left behind
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/108 "2010-06-10T20:07:11Z")
I will survive!
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### Author:  [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/109 "2010-06-10T21:00:27Z")
and he made me trade the gallows for the Mexicali blues
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/110 "2010-06-10T22:34:12Z")
Hang me, oh hang me
I’ll be dead and gone
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/111 "2010-06-10T23:38:27Z")
Mama seemed to know what lay in store
In spite of all my Sunday learnin’
For the bad I kept on turnin’ and mama couldn’t hold me anymore.
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### Author:  [@MTRG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTRG)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2010, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/112 "2010-06-11T13:05:08Z")
mama keep saying that the wind might blow
but standing here, I just don’t know
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/113 "2010-06-11T18:00:05Z")
Well my mama told me, my papa told me too
Well my mama told me, my papa told me too
Well I shouldn’t be here trying to sing these railroad blues
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/114 "2010-06-11T21:23:38Z")
Don’t say I never warned you when your train gets lost
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### Author:  [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2010, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/115 "2010-06-12T01:05:58Z")
You’re a Lost Sailor, you’ve been too long at sea, now the shore lights becon, yes there’s a price for being free…
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### Author:  [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2010, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/116 "2010-06-12T01:13:50Z")
They say that when your ship comes in the first man takes the sails
second takes the afterdeck, the third the planks and rails
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### Author:  [@MTRG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTRG)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2010, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/117 "2010-06-12T01:34:32Z")
when that ship come in,
you won’t know where it’s been
you got to try to see a little further
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### Author:  [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2010, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/118 "2010-06-12T06:32:22Z")
Though I could not caution all, I still might warn a few,
don’t lend your hand, to raise no flag
atop no ship of fools
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/119 "2010-06-12T16:12:29Z")
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high.
Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my.
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### Author:  [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2010, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-grateful-dead-lyric/540672/120 "2010-06-14T07:27:28Z")
Well the cool breeze came on tuesday, and the corn’s a bumper crop,
and the fields are full of dancin’, full of singin’ and romancin’
the music never stopped
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