there’s mosquitoes on the river
fish are rising up like birds
it’s been hot for seven weeks now
too hot to even speak now
did you hear what i just heard
say it might have been a fiddle or it could have been the wind
but there seems to be a beat now i can feel it my feet now
listen here it comes again
there’s a band out on the highway
they’re high stepping into town
it’s a rainbow full of sound
it’s fireworks calliopes and clowns
everybody’s dancing
come on children come on children
come on clap your hands
sun went down in honey
and the moon came up in wine
you know stars were spinning dizzy lord
the band kept us too busy we forgot about the time
they’re a band beyond description
like jehovah’s favorite choir
people joining hand in hand
while the music played the band lord
they’re setting us on fire
crazy rooster crowing midnight
balls of lighting roll along
old men sing about their dreams
women laugh and children scream
and the band keeps playing on
keep on dancing thru the daylight
greet the morning air with song
no ones’s noticed but the band’s all pack and gone
was it ever there at all
but they kept on dancing
come on children come on children
come on clap your hands
well the cool breeze came on tuesday
and the corn’s a bumper crop
and the fields are full of dancing
full of singing and romancing
the music never stopped
Artist: The Grateful Dead
Year: 1975
Decade: 70s
Language: en
Word Count: 144