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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
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"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.



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DeadBase code: [YDHA]
First posted: January 1, 2000
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