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The Annotated "I Need A Miracle"

An installment in The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics.
By Prof. Fred Lieberman's Music of the Dead course (Music 80N), Spring 2000, UCSC, and
David Dodd
Research Associate, Music Dept., University of California, Santa Cruz

Copyright notice
"I Need A Miracle"
Words by John Perry Barlow, with Bob Weir. Music by Bob Weir.
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.


"I Need a Miracle"

Written July, 1978, in Mill Valley, California.

Recorded on

Performance history:


Keywords: @women
First posted: April 20, 2000