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Words
by
Robert Hunter
Music by
Jerry Garcia
Reprinted with permissions copyright
Ice Nine Publishing
First known performance:
December
19
,
1969
, at the
Fillmore Auditorium
in
San Francisco
by the
Grateful Dead
.
There are
15
known live performances, all in
1969-1970
, after which it was dropped from the repertoire.
Mason
died
on
Monday
We bricked him in
the wall
All his children grew and grew
They never grew so tall before
They may never grow so tall again
We dug him up on
Tuesday
He'd hardly aged a day
Taught us all we ever knew
We never knew
so much before
We may never know so much again
Mason was a mighty
man
A mighty man was he
All he said:
when I'm dead
and gone
don't you weep for me
The wall collapsed on
Wednesday
We chalked it up to
fate
All his children ran and hid
We never hid so well before
Swore we'd never show our face again
Thursday
came and
Friday
with
fires
tall and bright
Mason's children cooked the
stew
and cleaned up when the feast was through
Swore we'd never had such times before
Take me to the
Reaper Man
to pay back what was loaned
If he's in some other land
write it off as
stoned
Mason was a mighty man
A mighty man was he
All he said: when I'm dead and gone
don't you weep for me
------------------------------------------------
Hunter
's note in the
Box of Rain
anthology says:
"An unrecorded GD song dealing obliquely with
Altamont
."
Mason
Possibly a reference to the order of
Freemasons
?
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chaos
Robert Hunter
Altamont
Grateful Dead lyrics
Freemason
stoned
Grateful Dead
Fillmore
Jerry Garcia
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