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Mourão, Portugal - August 1985
(Hasselblad 500 EL/M)
“Saint Stephen” – Jerry Garcia/Phil Lesh/Robert Hunter
Saint Stephen with a rose, in and out of the garden he
goes,
Country garden in the wind and the rain,
Wherever he goes the people all complain.
Stephen prospered in his time, well he may and he may
decline.
Did it matter, does it now? Stephen would answer if he only
knew how.
Wishing well with a golden bell, bucket hanging clear to
hell,
Hell halfway twixt now and then,
Stephen fill it up and lower down and lower down again.
Lady finger, dipped in moonlight, writing "What
for?" across the morning sky.
Sunlight splatters, dawn with answer, darkness shrugs and
bids the day goodbye.
Speeding arrow, sharp and narrow,
What a lot of fleeting matters you have spurned.
Several seasons with their treasons,
Wrap the babe in scarlet colors, call it your own.
Did he doubt or did he try? Answers aplenty in the bye and
bye,
Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills,
One man gathers what another man spills.
Saint Stephen will remain, all he's lost he shall regain,
Seashore washed by the suds and foam,
Been here so long, he's got to calling it home.
Fortune comes a crawlin', calliope woman, spinnin' that
curious sense of your own.
Can you answer? Yes I can. But what would be the answer to
the answer man?
Recorded by the
Grateful Dead on the albums “Aoxomoxoa” and “Live/Dead” (1969)
“The Eleven” – Phil Lesh/Robert Hunter
High green chilly winds and windy vines
In loops around the twisted shafts of lavender,
They're crawling to the sun.
Underfoot the ground is patched
With arms of ivy wrapped around the manzanita,
Stark and shiny in the breeze.
Wonder who will water all the children of the garden
When they sigh about the barren lack of rain and
Droop so hungry neath the sky.
William Tell has stretched his bow till it won't stretch
No furthermore and/or it may require a change that hasn't
come before.
No more time to tell how, this is the season of what,
Now is the time of returning with our thought
Jewels polished and gleaming.
Now is the time past believing the child has relinquished
the rein,
Now is the test of the boomerang tossed in the night of
redeeming.
Seven faced marble eyed transitory dream doll,
Six proud walkers on the jingle bell rainbow,
Five men writing with fingers of gold,
Four men tracking down the great white sperm whale,
Three girls waiting in a foreign dominion
Riding in the whale belly, fade away in moonlight,
Sink beneath the waters to the coral sands below.
By the Grateful Dead, from the “Live/Dead” album (1969)
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