>i>"All the others I let pass by, I only wanted you"
The Annotated "Lazy River Road"
An installment in The Annotated
Grateful Dead Lyrics.
By David Dodd
Library, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
(The opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the University of Colorado.)
Copyright notice; © 1995,1996, David Dodd
"Lazy River Road"
Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; used with 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.
"Lazy River Road"
Not recorded.>
First performance: February 21, 1993, at the Oakland Coliseum Arena. Lazy River Road appeared in the first set, between "Greatest Story Ever Told" and "Eternity," which was also debuted at the show, along with "Liberty."
These three alliterative places appear to be fictitious, although there is a shopping center named "Seminole Square" in Charlottesville.
Echoes of the line from "Scarlet Begonias":
"Had to learn the hard way to let her pass by..."
The title of a folk song formalized in 1921 by W.C. Handy, Spencer Williams, and Martha Koenig.
Keywords:@river, @roses, @stars
DeadBase code: [LAZR]
First posted: June 27, 1996
Last revised: