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Alligator (Live at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, August 1968) Lyrics by The Grateful Dead

Two from the Vault

1968

[Verse 1]
Sleepy alligator in the noonday sun
Lying by the river just like he usually done, oh Lord
Call for his whisky
He can call for his tea
Call all he want to
But he can't call me
[Chorus]
Oh no
Well, I been there before
And I'm not coming back around
There no more, oh no now
[Instrumental Break]
[Bridge]
Hung up waiting for a windy day
Hung up waiting for a windy day
[Verse 2]
Creepy alligator coming all around the bend
Talking 'bout the times when we was mutual friends
I check my memory
And I, I check it quick, oh yes I will
I check it running
Some old kind of trick, oh no
[Chorus]
Oh no
Well, I been there before
And I ain't a coming back around
There no more
No, I'm not
[Bridge]
Tear down the Fillmore
Gas the Avalon
[Verse 3]
Riding down the river in an old canoe
A bunch of bugs and an old tennis shoe
Out of the river all ugly and green
Came the biggest old alligator that I've ever seen
Teeth big and pointed and his eyes were bugging out
Contact the union, put the beggars to route
Screaming and yelling, he was licking his chops
He never runs, he just stumbles and hops
Just out of prison on six dollars bail
Mumbling at bitches and wagging his tail
[Instrumental]
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About “Alligator (Live at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, August 1968)” by The Grateful Dead

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