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The second most important member of the Grateful Dead and arguably the greatest rock and roll lyricist to ever walk the Earth.

 

 

Now I don't know but I been told

It's hard to run with the weight of gold
Other hand I have heard it said
It's just as hard with the weight of lead

 

And I don't know but I been told
If the horse don't pull you got to carry the load
I don't know whose back's that strong
Maybe find out before too long

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20 minutes ago, Simon said:

The second most important member of the Grateful Dead and arguably the greatest rock and roll lyricist to ever walk the Earth.

 

 

Now I don't know but I been told

It's hard to run with the weight of gold
Other hand I have heard it said
It's just as hard with the weight of lead

 

And I don't know but I been told
If the horse don't pull you got to carry the load
I don't know whose back's that strong
Maybe find out before too long

One of two... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sinfield

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33 minutes ago, T&C said:

He did write some songs with the G.O.A.T.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/robert-hunter-grateful-dead-dead-889788/

His best-known collaborator after Garcia, though, was Bob Dylan. Starting with “Silvio,” the two co-wrote many songs on Dylan’s Together Through Life in 2009. “He’s got a way with words and I do too,” Dylan told Rolling Stone. “We both write a different type of song than what passes today for songwriting.” Hunter told RS:  “He’s the only guy I work with who I give the liberty to change things. After all, he is who he is.”

 

Sad to read in that article that he had financial difficulties due to medical expenses, hard for me to fathom.

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14 hours ago, T&C said:

John Phillips did that angle the best imo.

 

he composed Me and My Uncle at a party while totally out of his mind, Phoebe Snow taped it and gave the tape to him, so he collected royalties on a song he didn't even know he had made

 

 

 

 

i choose this one...

 

 

 

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I'm a Sugar Magnolia guy.  One of my all-time favorites.

 

She come skimming through rays of violet

She can wade in a drop of dew

She don't come and I don't follow

Waits backstage while I sing to you

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