"If you're trying to find what's true, just take a look at all of you"
The Annotated "You Don't Have to Ask"
An installment in The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics.
By David Dodd
1997-98 Research Associate, Music Dept., University of California, Santa Cruz
(The opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the University of
California.)Copyright notice;
© 1995, 1996,1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 David
Dodd
"You Don't Have to Ask"
By the Grateful Dead
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.
"You Don't Have to Ask"
Recorded on
First known performance: Friday, March 25, 1966, at Trouper's Club in Los Angeles, CA. The song
was played a few times during 1966, then dropped. The version on the box set is from July 16, 1966,
at the Fillmore in San Francisco.
Keywords:
DeadBase code: [YDHA]
First posted: January 1, 2000
Last revised: