Cause When Life Looks Like Easy Street There is Danger at Your Door

Grateful Dead Lyrics

"Uncle John's Band"

Well, the first days are the hardest days
Don't you worry anymore
'Cause when life looks like Easy Street
There is danger at your door

Think this through with me
Let me know your mind
Whoa, oh, what I want to know
Is are you kind?

It's a buck dancer's choice my friend
Better take my advice
You know all the rules by now
And the fire from the ice

Will you come with me?
Won't you come with me?
Whoa, oh, what I want to know
Will you come with me?

Goddamn, well, I declare
Have you seen the like
Their walls are built of cannon balls
Their motto is don't tread on me

Come hear Uncle John's Band
Playing to the tide
Come with me or go alone
He's come to take his children home

It's the same story the crow told me
It's the only one he know
Like the morning sun you come
And like the wind you go

Ain't no time to hate
Barely time to wait
Whoa, oh, what I want to know
Where does the time go?

I live in a silver mine
And I call it "Beggar's Tomb"
I got me a violin
And I beg you call the tune

Anybody's choice
I can hear your voice
Whoa-ho what I want to know
How does the song go?

Come hear Uncle John's Band
By the riverside
Got some things to talk about
Here beside the rising tide

Come hear Uncle John's Band
Playing to the tide
Come on along or go alone
He's come to take his children home

Whoa-ho what I want to know
How does the song go?

Come hear Uncle John's Band
By the riverside
Got some things to talk about
Here beside the rising tide

Come hear Uncle John's Band
Playing to the tide
Come on along or go alone
He's come to take his children home

Writer(s): Robert C Christie Hunter, Jerome J Garcia

Jerry Garcia revealed the origin of this song by telling, "...at that time I was listening to records of the Bulgarian Women's Choir and also this Greek-Macedonian music – these penny-whistlers – and on one of those records there was a song that featured this little turn of melody that was so lovely that I thought, 'Gee, if I could get this into a song, it would be so great.' So I stole it."

Robert Hunter recalled how he listened to the band's finished arrangement in a 1991 interview with Grateful Dead historian Blair Jackson, "I played it over and over, kept hearing the words 'God damn, Uncle John's mad'… and it took a while for that to turn into 'Come hear Uncle John's Band,' and that's one of those little things where the sparkles start coming out of your eyes."

"Uncle John's Band" belongs to The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll".

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album: "Workingman's Dead" (1970)

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