"Now don't think too hard baby 'cause you know what I'm saying"

The Annotated "High Time"

An installment in The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics.
By David Dodd
1997-1998 Research Associate, Music Dept., University of California Santa Cruz
"High Time"
Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; used by permission.

Lyrics omitted. The annotations below are reproduced by permission of David Dodd; the song lyrics themselves are copyrighted and are not reproduced here. Read them at the official source: dead.net/songs.


"High Time"

Recorded on

Covered by Henry Kaiser on Eternity Blue.

First known performance: June 21, 1969, at the Fillmore East in New York City. "High Time" followed "Me and My Uncle" and preceded "China Cat Sunflower." Over the years, the song dropped in and out of the repertoire, never for more than six years, however.


DeadBase code: [HIGH]
First posted: January 30, 1996
Last revised: November 28, 2001